Saturday, May 28, 2016

TintCore Linux on Lenovo G50-45

About 8 years ago I tried TinyCore Linux and developed a couple of tcz files to the project.

Yesterday I downloaded the latest TinyCorePure64-7.1 ISO and made a UEFI bootable USB stick to try it. I could boot to the desktop and connect through wired network (wireless wlan0 was not detected out of the box but that was expected from the Tiny Linux distribution). I installed Opera Browser.
After searching on the Forums, I installed following tcz files:
wireless-4.2.9-tinycore64.tcz
           wireless_tools.tcz
firmware-rtlwifi.tcz
wpa_supplicant-dbus.tcz
wpa_supplicant.tcz
After this wlan0 was detected but I had to make wpa_configure.conf file and connect through following command:
$ sudo wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/opt/wpa_configure.conf &
I have added the above command to /opt/bootlocal.sh to automatically connect on next boot.

Now I can explore this Tiny Linux distribution once again.


Air India direct flight to San Fransisco has flown through China today.

 My sister in law left for San Fransisco by AI 173 flight which flows over North Pole. I tracked that flight on flightstats.com till it land...