Thinking of using Tiny Core; advice please?

[JunkYard]

Then is there a file manager program that I can download and install onto it, as you can see from above trying to open the drives, I can not work with the Terminal command line

You can use the extension browser to search by keywords. Searching for "file manager" finds many. If you install a graphical one (pcmanfm, emelfm, nautilus...) , it'll appear as an icon you can launch like the extension browser. Repeat as desired to install all the programs you want.

Where Tiny Core might not be for you is you need to know what programs you want, and some might need a little setting up. Other distros pick ones for you that come installed by default, hence they're often very big (including many things you might never use).

So you are saying I have to donwload it onto the machine from the terminal right?

[JunkYard]

The OP is looking to install on a Pentium 4 with 512 Meg of RAM.

Hi Rich. All the more reason the OP should learn to love the TCL way of doing things
Opening up a terminal and running tce-load -wi xfe (or pcmanfm or rox-filer or spacefm) is not that hard.

As we say from my earlier post about trying to read the drives. The terminal is rubish and dose not work!

[Rich]

Hi JunkYard
First of all, I deleted your last post. All you did was quote a bunch
of other posts without saying anything else.

There is nothing wrong with the terminal. I works just fine.

Did you plug a network cable into your machine?
You can't download any extensions without a network connection.

There is an icon for a GUI based extension downloader/installer:

It won't work without a network connection either.

A few more items:
1. You will need to manage your expectations. If you expect to
   point and click your way to a fully equipped system, then you
   picked the wrong Linux distro.

2. You are confusing:
      "this is rubbish and nothing works"
   with:
      "I don't know or understand how things work"
   Your current issue is the latter.

3. Stop quoting entire posts. If you need to address an issue from
   a post, just quote the sentence that mentions that issue.