Table of Contents
Intended audience and set-up
General discussion started in the forum: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,17863.0.html
Structure of content
I strongly want to suggest putting real content on separate pages that can be linked from this Welcome-page. — sm8ps 2015/04/29 12:57
Section dCore
“To get a usable X11 desktop (…) type in startx, to start up Xorg.” should later go into a page collection, probably “Beginners”.
— sm8ps 2015/01/04 23:55 Contained in usb_installation_test-drive — sm8ps 2015/04/29 12:53
[END OF CHRONOLOGICAL CONTENT]
[START OF STATIC CONTENT]
Wiki pages to be reference
http://www.tinycorelinux.net/faq.html : no wiki page but highly useful
Booting, Installing
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:the_boot_process : thorough presentation
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:bios : bios settings
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:partition : general information about partitioning
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:dynamic_root_filesystem_remastering : chain-load from Grub (does this work?)
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:install_wo_optical_grub2 : manual install with Grub2
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:installing_tc_-_alternate_offline_guide : full walk-through of manual install
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:microcore64_kiss_install_guide : ditto for MicroCore; very close to dCore
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:usb_life : life expectancy of USB sticks
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:waitusb : waitusb & Labels
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:grub4dos : Grub4DOS
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:extlinux : Extlinux
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:links : External tools
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:install : maybe for comparison?
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:extlinux_passwd : Passwords in Extlinux
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:boot_codes_explained : boot-codes, boot-loader stanzas
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:boot_options : boot-options
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:backup_hd : boot-codes etc.
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:display_modes : VGA boot-codes
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:install_hd#run_the_installer : international keyboard map
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:setting_the_time_zone : time zone settings
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:time_zone : thorough description of time zones, incl. daylight savings time
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:boot_splash : Plymouth boot-splash
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:splashy : Splashy boot-splash (fragmentary)
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:backup_or_persistent_home_and_opt : general information
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:bootchart : chart of the boot process to pinpoint slow parts
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:bootlocal.sh_and_shutdown.sh : bootsync.sh, bootlocal.sh, shutdown.sh
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:install_with_windows : inter-play with Windows
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:update : update or install several versions
Persistence, Backup
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:backup-check : manual backup
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:backup : thorough information
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:persistent_home : /home, /opt
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:backup_-_restore : some additional information
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:boot_option_opt : persistent directories vs. file persistence
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:boot_option_protect : boot-option for encrypted backup
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:tc-specific_configuration_files : .filetool.lst, onboot.lst (maybe add more?)
Set-Up, Basic Usage
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:information_about_installation : showbootcodes, version
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:system_information : more system information
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:adding_a_desktop_to_microcore : maybe useful for comparison?
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:passwd : user password (not very safe, though)
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:security : users, groups, sudo
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:flwm : FLWM-keyboard commands
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:control_panel : description of Control Panel
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:tiny_core_utilities : description of system tools
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:cpu_frequency_scaling_basics : is this still available?
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:creating_custom_command_icons_in_wbar : adding icons to Wbar
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:menu : manipulate Wbar & menu
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:extension_for_settings : turn settings into an application (would such approach still work?)
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:gtk_themes : GTK-themes
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:iconmenuinfo : menu entries, icons etc.
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:mnttool : Mount-tool
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:netbook_tips : Iwconfig, Conky
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:setting_up_wifi : Wicd, WPA-GUI
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:network_setup_-_atheros_wireless_cards : Atheros cards (obsolete?)
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:network_setup_-_broadcom_wireless_cards : Broadcom cards (obsolete?
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:ondemand : dCore-specific
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:package_management_cheat_sheet : should be extended for dCore
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:shutdown : exittc vs. poweroff
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:tc_commands : tc* (could serve as template for sce*)
Apps
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:pulseaudio : Pulse Audio
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:emelfm : simple file manager
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:encrypt_files : file encryption
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:espeak : speech-synthesis program
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:fileserver : NFS-server
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:server : FTP-, Samba-Server
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:firewall : Iptables
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:mplayer-nodeps : probably interesting in dCore
Misc.
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:basic_commands : Linux shell-101
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:bootlocal.sh_and_shutdown.sh : chown-101 (tc:staff)
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:wget : wget-101
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:bcrypt : encryption utility, standard part of *Core base
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:netbooting : net-booting
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:pretce : tce on RAID or LVM
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:printer_setup_using_cups : CUPS printing set-up
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:tar : handling archives (could use info on sce)
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:virtualbox : TCore in VirtualBox
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:vmware_installation : TCore in VMWare
Scripts
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:console_key_mappings : console keymap
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:backup_date : backups by date
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:install_usb_win : future project for dCore?
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:random_background : random background image
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:setting_up_wifi#simple_scripts_to_auto_connect_to_specific_networks : auto-connect to specific networks (fragment)
- http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:setting_up_wifi_at_boot : auto-connect to WPA-protected access point at Boot