Tiny Core Linux install walk through and applications primer

okay so here we are on a tiny core desktop uh this is a live usb key booted into an old compact presario i have a very light system a single core athlon 64 processor and i initially had one gig of ram when i installed tiny core but now i have it boosted to a solid four gigs of ram so that this this isn't quite as necessary as it was when i first installed this but a tiny core does run pretty powerfully on this system still uh like i said this is on the live usb key because i wanted to show off the flwm window manager this is the standard window manager for tiny core if you choose the core plus installation option or version that has all the extras you can choose to boot into a fancier window manager if you like but this is just a core package this is the one that fits into 16 gigs or 16 megabytes rather jesus 16 megabytes of ram and the gui itself i think fits into four because it's only four megabytes bigger than the core cli installation um so yeah here we are uh core does pick up your persistence file so it's picked up uh some of the programs from my other installation just by putting the usb key in very interesting concepts and so i inadvertently put a tc install in uh but if you from a lot another take but if you install from the core version uh the core not the core plus with the tiny core uh the gui version then you're not gonna have a tc install so i'm gonna quick walk that through so you can follow along if you need to follow along while you're watching and uh just kind of walk quick through and i'm gonna go over the video or the video the the apps program again uh in a little bit i always choose the tc install gui i don't know if there's a difference honestly i think one might just have the net installer this one's a little bit newer i don't know i always just go for the gooey one and it works great so we're gonna just uh i would say go to uh download and install or download and load and not on boot like i did like an idiot and i don't need that on boot every time but yeah so we're going to close this up in a sec i am overdubbing this because the other takes are wild and i actually recorded this natively on machine so that it also explains the like 15 frames per second the mouse is actually a lot smoother in my in my world here everything's a lot smoother but here we are in the tiny core uh installation window pretty straightforward pretty simple very very um minimalist uh and so the first thing you want to do is choose your path the quartz that's going to bend your on your uh your boot medium so that's going to be for me mounted in mnt uh and that should probably be mounted in mnt most people's systems so i think that the cd-rom mounts there as well uh i am in sdb so that check it out boot and that's going to be your gz file your core file um and that is going to change depending on if you're using the 32-bit version the pure 64 version which i have here uh and then also the uh there's an armed version that's really i think the most probably the one that people are going to want to get the most use out of nobody has old computers like this lying around anymore it's not really practical to even use them anymore because i mean and you can i for the amount of work i put into this computer i could have already bought a raspberry pi i i should have i should have bought a raspberry pi because it takes a lot less power i mean this thing needs a whole a whole couple hundred watt power supply just to run a single processor it's crazy um but it is i'm a hobbyist and that's the thing the other element of tiny core so you just want to choose your core pure 64 here there isn't a net download uh that i actually never really played with but i i you know took the shot and now she just clicked on it when i was doing this take and so here we are if we end and you can just click that and it'll actually uh pull the latest 32-bit core um very interesting i've never tried it but no that's nice so i'm going to throw in the gz from boulder again just to show y'all have something in place there i want to go over some of these options so these are the three options frugal usb hard drive and the usb zip option um frugal is something that's going to stick in your drive so if google is something that's going to it's going to be a hard drive install um and there's a couple different options for that you can wipe a whole disk and just just have tiny core in your system if you already have linux installed on this computer you can do a nested install which is what i prefer was what i use uh on my machine because i already have labor too on here and i didn't want to get rid of it i can just basically install a folder on on my my bootable partition or or set another partition is bootable and i put the folder in there point a grub at it and then he's got a new grub menu option boots right in it's it's pretty it's pretty nice uh you don't need to install a new bootloader or anything uh you don't need to partition your you don't need to format your drive at all it's very convenient um you can do a whole disc install but really that doesn't seem super the only advantage to me that seems like it might be there is it might be a little bit faster to boot uh depending on what kind of hardware you have it might not be faster honestly if you're using like a very old 32 rpm you know spinning disc it may not be so great um but yeah so you know if you wanted to do uh the existing partition install you can make any of your partitions bootable uh not install the bootloader uh and you know not partition your drive uh you can do the whole disk you can also you know you can you can take any of your partitions you can put it on its own partition if you want to uh and you know this this is a big commitment you know uh to put together go ahead with the frugal install really the easiest way to do is go for the usb hard drive install uh if you want a walking persistence so this is like more like if you want like you know the debian style uh ubuntu style walking persistence everything's on one usb drive and you can take it to any computer you want boot it up and you're going to have you know your your own custom system for yourself and that's a nice little option the other option over here is the uh usb zip option um now usb zip is a bit of an older concept uh it's just people who are booting from dvds and cds so if you have a dvd or a cd and you're booting but you want to carry persistence with you you can actually attach your persistence to a second usb key so that's a nice option here uh it's it's an older option most people are not going to need it because most computers are going to boot from a usb key if they're made within the last 20 years but things that are still working for my usb 1 and some of the earlier usb 2 revisions may not have the ability to boot from usb drives and that can be a problem so for people with that necessity you can still store your information to a usb drive and have a walking operating system the other the other option is a fourth option really and that is that you can just use your live usb key uh and in the end when you ask to shut down you can choose to save your persistence to a folder on your existing computer so you can just save uh your persistence to the system it's not a walking system anymore because now it's only on your main computer but that all you have to do is pop your usb key in and it'll do like i did here and you know like it'll it'll it'll uh automatically load the programs that you you've asked it to load um and so that can be fun and that can be convenient um so uh for the sake of just walking through a little bit i'm gonna you know choose a existing partition and let's say i did you know i wanted to just put up my existing boot partition and i wouldn't do anything i wouldn't install bootloader or anything um now i these are formatting options up again if i'm doing the nested install i had no formatting don't need to format a damn thing and it'll just uh put that folder in on the whatever whatever partition you've asked it to put it in if you are choosing to install either to a usb key or if you are installing it to uh your system uh you know if you're selling it to a hard drive in a frugal sense and you want to wipe something out then you're going to have to format it i recommend x2 for usb keys so if it's a non-journaling system so you're going to give it a better lasting life on your usb key and then x3 or x4 i always use x4 if you're going directly to the hard drive [Music] and then b fat if you have to have some kind of compatibility with uh maybe an older bios or if you need compatibility with uh yeah some kind of microsoft based uh docs based system uh you may need v-fat um you know i'm just gonna click them through here show some options this is the boot options page and this really i mean you know you probably won't need many of these uh i think that it kind of presets up your tce uh you know you that's like if you want to customize where you put your hard drive or what your hard drive names are where you restore from um there are some varying options you can set your vga code here you submit you can yeah you can choose to boot to a text mode which is a command line and then you can choose to start x at your leisure you can choose to go boot automatically to x setup every time and that can be beneficial if you're if you're like you know switching computers around and you wanna um you know you need to reset up your your x message system uh i mean actually i don't even think that x beta comes with this pure 64 version i think that they're if i remember correctly i was only able to either install x or wayland um and maybe there's another option i don't i don't know no other alternative to expressive but i i i didn't see it so i i'm not as familiar with that i mean i'm i'm not really that hardcore that i'm not i haven't skewed x at all um or you know xorg and then this is this is uh you know just just a little cheat sheet for your vga codes if you need to put your vga codes in and you can yeah add as many of these as you want into this uh space down here on the bottom and that will just you know somewhere by commas and then it'll put them into a grub you don't need to do that if you're doing it in install from the frugal install because you're going to have to make your own rub a custom grub anyways so don't worry about that that's only for people who are actually installing uh the system to their computer and they need to make their own boot loader um for all intent and purposes uh yeah so the cde file that we're going through here real fast that is um where all your programs are going to be so this is where your gui is and that's where all your extended programs are going to be uh otherwise you can just do a text-based install with the core only text-based install from here but if you want to have access to wi-fi drivers or you want to have the gui installed already that's where you're going to want to do it make sure everything is good here make sure everything looks right make sure you're targeting the right drives to make sure you're not you know gonna overwrite anything you want and then you click proceed and then it'll walk you through it will give you some errors if it runs into problems and you can troubleshoot from there again there's really good documentation on the training core site there's a book and everything but some people like to learn through videos so why not do a little bit more video about it why not why not so here's the applications program uh this is where we're gonna we're gonna install all of our programs you know gnome software type deal but the way that we install programs in tinycore is a little bit different because the goal of tinycore is to minimize the amount of ram used on every single boot it's it's just very necessary if you're going to put the whole operating system into memory and we want this to work on very low memory devices you're going to want to have a very paired down system every time you boot what tiny core gives you the opportunity to do is to have many programs available to you which you only choose to install or put into re load into ram when you want to use them so that you're not putting too much of demand on your system because we're going to have to also use all of our available ram space uh leftover ram space that you know aside from our our whole operating system for processing right so i mean if we have a one gigabytes worth of programs and things installed then we're not going to be able to have a functional running operating system so what we have is the opportunity to uh install programs on a per use basis so on boot would be for anything you need immediately that's going to be drivers firmware um just the base things that you need for your computer to really run and function on every install or if you're if you are on every boot and if you're you know only using it for something like a browser you can have a browser in here too but browsers are big and if you wanted to use it for something else maybe you want to record something or i don't know whatever there's a lot of different packages available then you might not want something like a browser every single time uh so what we have the opportunity to do is we have something we can boot on demand we can um we can oh no we can do it on boot we can do on demand on demand is going to be so that you can choose to load it in at any time um download and load is going to allow you to just immediately download something load it in but i don't think it backs it up for future use so you have to re-download it again and then separately there's the just download only so you download it not loaded into your ram quite yet and i don't believe that it's going to be there i think it's going to be a temporary install and it's not going to be there again when you choose to uh boot back into your system later so here i am just kind of messing around in the apps program um showing you you know uh with the basic things so if you if you're peeking around you'll see um that it has just peculiarities if you want to you know install something you have to click like go right i mean this is not super intuitive but it again is beneficial it's really helpful if we want to have a paired down system that functions specifically uh every boot right so [Music] on boot on demand download and load download only uh and then if you have like an on-demand program or something um you can go back and actually like actively choose to load uh an app locally right so you would go down to that load app locally instead of the browse oh i guess well yeah hang on let me go for that so that's like those are the browse if you uh just go through search you know you'll be able to um search for something by package name um if you go to uh where search is um then you can actually choose to search by tags right so tags are like um keywords so right now i've searched for firefox um but if i want to search for like browsers then i'll push it now this is browser i had to search for yeah this is a browser then it gives me all those options whereas if i just search for browser in the search function uh it's only going to give me chromium and i think iridium yeah so uh don't use ps don't use the chromium browser here it's from it's like packaged from like 2010 it's not good uh use iridium use um firefox really firefox is the best one to use in this system because you can get the latest and greatest at all moments um and then so there's a couple of different options in terms of i think that there's like a possibility of installing the files like directly to your hard drive so that you can like use it like a regular program you know but that defeats the purpose of the speed of the ram option so i don't really i don't know how that works i haven't played with any of that because i don't really want to it doesn't seem very useful um go over to the maintenance section yeah okay so um in maintenance is where we can oh my god what was i doing you know i did this all uh yeah i mentioned it already what am i doing what am i doing okay so i'll just literally start talking about maintenance so this is the come on what was i freaking doing here i have no idea what i was trying to what i was trying to show off here um okay well so maintenance md5 checking the sums that's that's what they they use to keep uh basically do your updates um so you you have your md fives and texture md5s uh make sure that you have mv files for all your files uh all your programs and then when uh the md5 is changed then when you go to check for updates then it will check your md5 numbers against the numbers and the assist in the database and if they are not the same then they will update you to the newest version um then there's a possibility to check for like uh orphan dependencies and stuff like that um but the dependencies and deletions is probably an important thing if you want to delete something out of your system just kind of delete the whole thing out uh you can go in here um and you can just give it a click uh let's see what i choose yeah well you know i don't want to delete anything but i'll just for sure i think i chose slurp and then i marked it for deletion and there you go now it's going to delete slurp and it gets grim uh as they are dependent well now no one's going to see the other but i guess it wants to delete them about um and then you can marking deletion and you can choose you know the market um there's a couple of other options in here that again i don't really run into a need for or use for very often i mean there's a lot of like things that you can do that you don't necessarily need to do to make this like a functional operating system um yeah i mean so so here we are it's like really like why would you need this anymore why would you need this in 2020 and the answer is probably you don't because you don't need to run a compact rosario anymore it's just not valuable uh it takes much power it takes too much uh energy and i can get the same faster experience from a raspberry pi right so why do we need tiny core the answer is we really don't it's kind of become a bit of a hobbyist system it's with one exception and that is the arm architecture because now that we are in a world of the arm [Music] of the raspberry pi you know uh we're on the fourth version of that and raspberry pi ones and twos aren't looking so great anymore so what do we do with them well any core conveniently has an armed version and i think that in the future we want to keep making those arm products work uh and you want to make the most of these very low power consumption still reasonably powerful machines then tiny core is going to become a valuable tool um you know i'm kind of just showing off a little bit here and there and i know just these are all the window managers you can use there's plenty of options ice hack box flwms the standard flux box they have mudder you can actually put gnome you can put no they have all the known packages here so you can install no um i personally uh actually have suede sway is not even it doesn't show it but they actually have sway and a whole wayland lesson compositor implementation uh and it is decent um i i i i will pop in a screenshot of my own sway setup but it works it took it took some some finagling and maybe i might do a short uh bit about that because you had to ch i had to change a an environment variable um that that it's not very well uh it's not very well documented i had to do a little bit of searching to find that one um but yeah so so there's a lot of options for window managers you're not stuck with this ugly window manager even though it is like a beautiful hybrid of mac os and uh windows xp but you know this is it's a it's a solid functional system and i mean it comes out of the gate with a nice little text editor and you know really it's about it it comes with a text editor and the ability to download more programs as you need them uh but i just wanted to show off that you know sorry my typing is terrible here um yeah that you know there there's a reason there's a rhyme to this operating system and there's a method to its madness um this really is about minimal consumption of ram and being able to have ultimate control over that ram um and so that you can you can make the best functional system and it really teaches you a lot about um you know how how these systems work it really is a fun kind of learning process in linux but things are also a little bit different too because they're not quite laid out the same uh that some of the standard things you might expect because it doesn't come with gnu tools and even their new tools package is still a little bit like it feels like lacking i feel like i'm missing still some like core utilities that i would want to have um and the the functional structure of the um the file system is a little bit different because it doesn't use your ssh the same way ssh it does it doesn't use your config files the same way it doesn't place things in your etc the same way it doesn't place things in in a couple of different spots the same way um so there are some differences some things to get over some hurdles to jump but for the fun of trying to make an operating system work in the least amount of space possible uh on old hardware that maybe has very little use otherwise uh it's it's really just stuff on the fun system it's fun operating system fun little or distribution you know it's a nice independent distribution it's not backed by anybody else it's just a cool group of people who wanted to make old computers run modern programs and it does it runs them pretty well i mean i'm not watching 720p video on it but it functions i can i can use it for typing for you know um website browsing for lighter websites or checking you know yeah whatever really i can use exists all i can install old programs i mean anything that you install to like your home or um i can remember the other one this is your your home or uh oh you're opt your opt folder so your home your app holder are inherently persistent and then a couple other persistence options you can choose uh you can edit some different files um your own list file and stuff like this and that's all documented you should really i mean if you really want to learn more you should check out the the book that's available is a pdf book available on tinycore um for the technical website um and i'll link probably to that in the in the links below uh and you know whatever um and this is my first video i just wanted to show off tiny core a little bit i don't know i enjoyed this operating system i just wanted to see it found on so this is this is it this is this is the library system of your dreams i hope you'll see all maybe another time on rav 1 x

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Length: 28min 11sec (1691 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 11 2020