Tiny Core Linux

Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: chopper on January 23, 2011, 06:03:34 PM

Title: Devil worship in the church of TC !
Post by: chopper on January 23, 2011, 06:03:34 PM

I dont know if anyone can (or will!) help me understand this as it is to do with installing to HD, a "scatter install".

Ive got things to work, but when I reboot the computer (an eeepc 900) some files still get changed.

What I do after a reboot now, is:

1) edit /opt/.tce_dir to contain "/tce" as opposed to "/tmp/tce" (it always gets rewritten with /tmp/tce after a reboot).

2) rm -rf /usr/local/tce.installed/* (cant reinstall apps without doing this as Apps (on wbar) says that things are already installed).

3) reinstall apps using Apps on wbar.

After reinstalling wicd and chromium-browser from my local /tce/optional their settings files all remain, that is I dont have to reput my wireless hex key and chrome still has my bookmarks/history etc.

I was wondering if anyone knows if I can do something with this scatter install, so as to not have to reinstall programs every boot ?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Devil worship in the church of TC !
Post by: gerald_clark on January 23, 2011, 06:14:09 PM

1. You do not have a persistent tce directory.
2. You do not use onboot with scatter mode, as you install each extension only once.
3. You have to stop doing backup/restore, or at least do not backup persistent directories.

Please read the docs:
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/concepts.html
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.com/tiki-index.php

Title: Re: Devil worship in the church of TC !
Post by: chopper on January 24, 2011, 06:09:07 AM

Hi gerald and thanks for the info.
I thought I have got a persistent tce directory, in my boot options Ive got:

tce=/dev/sda1/tce

There arent any apps in the onboot list in AppsAudit.

I have renamed the files filestool.lst and xfilestool.lst to have "_old" appended to their names, and when rebooting I choose "None" from backup options. Ive also got "norestore" as  a boot option... not sure about having that? but it doesnt seem to make a difference in this install.

Its a bit hard to follow the docs, but Ive read them a few times to try and understand the Tao of TC.

When I boot up now, the wicdNetworkManager menu entry (on right click on desktop) remains, although "sudo wicd-start" has errors about not being able to find wicd. The chrome menu entry disappears every boot though :/

Title: Re: Devil worship in the church of TC !
Post by: tinypoodle on January 24, 2011, 07:12:54 AM

I believe you got the syntax wrong, should be:

Code: [Select]

tce=sda1
However, mixing a scatter install with a PPR might lead to even more unpredictable results than a pure scatter install, YMMV.

Title: Re: Devil worship in the church of TC !
Post by: hiro on January 24, 2011, 07:38:40 AM

Pure scatter - Yeah, I'd like some ;)

Title: Re: Devil worship in the church of TC !
Post by: chopper on January 24, 2011, 09:02:58 AM

Quote from: tinypoodle on January 24, 2011, 07:12:54 AM

However, mixing a scatter install with a PPR might lead to even more unpredictable results than a pure scatter install, YMMV.

Good man! this could be what is wrong. Instead of using /tce I need to do, something else.

A strange thing with wicd is that when the computer boots up, there are wicd and wicd-start in /usr/local/sbin/ they arent symbolic links, but when running wicd-start script it says it cant find wicd, which is right next to it in the same directory... infact trying to run wicd directly says it cant find wicd...

Title: Re: Devil worship in the church of TC !
Post by: hiro on January 24, 2011, 06:33:06 PM

cat `which wicd`

This extension sucks. Perhaps it doesn't find python?

Title: Re: Devil worship in the church of TC !
Post by: chopper on January 25, 2011, 07:11:34 AM

Thats what it was hiro, it couldnt find lib python. Ive got rid of wicd now and use a little bash script from another computer with iwconfig, its much easier.

Programs are still not sticking around properly after a reboot yet though, Ill have some time later tonight to have a further look and see if I can understand whats going on.

Thanks for all the replies on this sacrilegious thread.