Tiny Core Linux Wiki - picore

gui

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-06T15:01:25+00:00

piCore GUI via HDMI To have GUI available via HDMI, load the following extensions. After this you can use 'startx' to directly start the GUI, or just reboot and the GUI should start by default. You have the option to use flwm.tcz (title bar at the side) or flwm_topside.tcz (title bar at the top).

prepsd

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-06-28T20:55:11+00:00

piCore Prepare SD-Card There are two ways to get the image on the sd-card. If you start from a Windows pc you can use the 'Raspberry Pi Imager' to get the image on the sd-card. For Linux and a Mac you can use the dd command. Depending on your RPi hardware you can choose for a 32-bit image or a 64-bit piCore image.

publickey

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-02T22:33:40+00:00

Public key authentication for user tc Below steps assume you already have a Public Key Pair generated. Using e.g. PuTTYgen (PuTTY Key Generator) you can generate a new key pair. Just search the Internet for a recent howto for generating and saving a new key pair.

resize

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-06-28T12:18:04+00:00

piCore Resize Partition For reference: * sudo fdisk -u /dev/mmcblk0 * Print the current partitions with 'p' * Make note of the starting and ending sectors of the second partition * Device StartCHS EndCHS StartLBA EndLBA Sectors Size Id Type /dev/mmcblk0p2 1023,3,16 1023,3,16 172032 204799 32768 16.0M 83 Linux

syslog

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-06-29T13:00:30+00:00

piCore Enable Syslog To obtain logging in /var/log/messages you can enable syslog in the boot options. * First mount the first partition (FAT) of the SD-card to the existing mount-point (/mnt/mmcblk0p1). * sudo mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/mmcblk0p1

user

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-06-29T11:41:50+00:00

User tc Aim is to add another user which can be used for ssh access. Then allow to switch to the default user tc. With the default sshd configuration it is not allowed to login to a passwordless user. User tc has no password set by default and I prefer to keep it passwordless.

vnc

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-05-14T22:32:55+00:00

piCore VNC First make sure you have the GUI working towards HDMI. Load x11vnc and its dependencies: * tce-load -wi x11vnc.tcz * tce-load -wi openssl-1.1.1.tcz * tce-load -wi libXdamage.tcz example command line: * x11vnc -display :0 *

welcome

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-05-05T21:53:05+00:00

piCore Wiki Welcome page Welcome to piCore * piCore Prep SD-card * piCore Resize Partition * piCore Wifi * piCore GUI * piCore Enable Syslog * piCore User tc * piCore Public Key Authentication * piCore VNC

wifi

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-02T21:57:17+00:00

piCore WiFi There are several options to obtain the needed extensions to get WiFi working. The easiest is to connect the RPi with an Ethernet cable to Internet. You can than use `tce-load -wi ` to install them. Below the steps to first download the needed extensions to an USB-stick and install them from there.