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Hi!
I am trying to get Tiny Core Linux v.6.1 up and running.
The PC is a Dell Optiplex 740 that boots and runs Tails (operating system) from a DVD or USB drive just fine, so I know the the BIOS is set properly.
TinyCore boots from a DVD that I made from a downloadable ISO, but instead of a GUI I get the shell/command prompt. Here is what I tried:
tc@box: ls tc@box: pwd /home/tc tc@box: startx -sh: startx: not found tc@box: tci -sh: tci: not found tc@box: tc-install -sh: tc-install: not found
The tci
and tc-install
setup commands are from
this page.
I can move around the file system and ls the usual files in the usual places sols
command just shows that /home/tc
is empty.
I tried both TinyCore and CorePlus downloaded from here
This looks like a really interesting distro to play around with (9MB command line, 15MB GUI!) if I can only get the installer working and put it on my (preformatted with ext2) thumb drive.
Somehow I just can't stop thinking that I am missing something blindingly obvious. -- CypherPunkyBrewster ( talk) 00:40, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
tc@box: tinycore xsetup
-sh: tinycore: not found
Something's wrong with my tablet. The popup dialog box says "Unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped". I clicked OK. The dialog pops up within a second over and over.
I can't select reboot to safe mode because of that noisy dialog box.
I can't press volume + and - together to enter safe mode because this tablet does not have these two buttons. It only has ESC and power. I can only press the power button for several seconds to turn off the tablet. When I turn on the tablet again, it gives me the same dialog boxes.
What can I do to enter safe mode?
I am using this tablet mainly as a book reader. I can do factory reset. It's just I can't do anything now except for press OK. This tablet is not a phone. I am more than pleased to disable com.android.phone if I could. I am more than pleased to disable most of the crap put into the system by Google. -- Toytoy ( talk) 09:58, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
I installed The Elder Scrolls:Skyrim after purchasing it on Steam, which left me with 93GB free on hard drive. It took up 7GB of space. Then I deinstalled it via "Delete local content" but still only have 93GB available. I even went into SteamApps and deleted its file there, but that didn't help. Where are these 7 worthless GB and how can I delete them? 107.10.22.138 ( talk) 12:06, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
rm
and never show up in the bin. I don't know how or why that is, but I've observed this more than once. --
Stephan Schulz (
talk)
16:18, 28 March 2015 (UTC)how can one design a linking power point to the web — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aine Prosper ( talk • contribs) 12:21, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
I have been sent a scanned PDF document that has text too close to the edge at the page at the top (it will be cutoff if I print and I don't want to reduce the size). So, I was wondering if there was a way to add whitespace to the top of the page, sort of the opposite of cropping whitespace. This is a multiple page document. I can think of some ways to do it and would if it was one or two pages, like printing, then scanning with the page moved a little bit down on the scanner. I suppose I could even convert to an image and move the image down in an image program then covert back to a pdf, but:
I was wondering if there is a direct way to do this with adobe acrobat professional (for mac)? Thanks in advance, even if the answer is you can't.-- 108.46.137.89 ( talk) 14:19, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
\usepackage{graphicx}
and \includegraphics[width=\textwidth, height=\textheigth]{pageX}
, and process the thing with pdftex. You can adjust and move the printable area of the document with appropriate (La)TeX magic if the default has to large margins. --
Stephan Schulz (
talk)
19:26, 28 March 2015 (UTC)I've found quite a few Wikipedia articles that redirect to something else unrelated. Wrex The Robo-Dog and Regretsy are two i could find. Sorry if i posted this in the wrong category, but someone needs to explain this to me. RocketMaster ( talk) 19:28, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
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Hi!
I am trying to get Tiny Core Linux v.6.1 up and running.
The PC is a Dell Optiplex 740 that boots and runs Tails (operating system) from a DVD or USB drive just fine, so I know the the BIOS is set properly.
TinyCore boots from a DVD that I made from a downloadable ISO, but instead of a GUI I get the shell/command prompt. Here is what I tried:
tc@box: ls tc@box: pwd /home/tc tc@box: startx -sh: startx: not found tc@box: tci -sh: tci: not found tc@box: tc-install -sh: tc-install: not found
The tci
and tc-install
setup commands are from
this page.
I can move around the file system and ls the usual files in the usual places sols
command just shows that /home/tc
is empty.
I tried both TinyCore and CorePlus downloaded from here
This looks like a really interesting distro to play around with (9MB command line, 15MB GUI!) if I can only get the installer working and put it on my (preformatted with ext2) thumb drive.
Somehow I just can't stop thinking that I am missing something blindingly obvious. -- CypherPunkyBrewster ( talk) 00:40, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
tc@box: tinycore xsetup
-sh: tinycore: not found
Something's wrong with my tablet. The popup dialog box says "Unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped". I clicked OK. The dialog pops up within a second over and over.
I can't select reboot to safe mode because of that noisy dialog box.
I can't press volume + and - together to enter safe mode because this tablet does not have these two buttons. It only has ESC and power. I can only press the power button for several seconds to turn off the tablet. When I turn on the tablet again, it gives me the same dialog boxes.
What can I do to enter safe mode?
I am using this tablet mainly as a book reader. I can do factory reset. It's just I can't do anything now except for press OK. This tablet is not a phone. I am more than pleased to disable com.android.phone if I could. I am more than pleased to disable most of the crap put into the system by Google. -- Toytoy ( talk) 09:58, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
I installed The Elder Scrolls:Skyrim after purchasing it on Steam, which left me with 93GB free on hard drive. It took up 7GB of space. Then I deinstalled it via "Delete local content" but still only have 93GB available. I even went into SteamApps and deleted its file there, but that didn't help. Where are these 7 worthless GB and how can I delete them? 107.10.22.138 ( talk) 12:06, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
rm
and never show up in the bin. I don't know how or why that is, but I've observed this more than once. --
Stephan Schulz (
talk)
16:18, 28 March 2015 (UTC)how can one design a linking power point to the web — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aine Prosper ( talk • contribs) 12:21, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
I have been sent a scanned PDF document that has text too close to the edge at the page at the top (it will be cutoff if I print and I don't want to reduce the size). So, I was wondering if there was a way to add whitespace to the top of the page, sort of the opposite of cropping whitespace. This is a multiple page document. I can think of some ways to do it and would if it was one or two pages, like printing, then scanning with the page moved a little bit down on the scanner. I suppose I could even convert to an image and move the image down in an image program then covert back to a pdf, but:
I was wondering if there is a direct way to do this with adobe acrobat professional (for mac)? Thanks in advance, even if the answer is you can't.-- 108.46.137.89 ( talk) 14:19, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
\usepackage{graphicx}
and \includegraphics[width=\textwidth, height=\textheigth]{pageX}
, and process the thing with pdftex. You can adjust and move the printable area of the document with appropriate (La)TeX magic if the default has to large margins. --
Stephan Schulz (
talk)
19:26, 28 March 2015 (UTC)I've found quite a few Wikipedia articles that redirect to something else unrelated. Wrex The Robo-Dog and Regretsy are two i could find. Sorry if i posted this in the wrong category, but someone needs to explain this to me. RocketMaster ( talk) 19:28, 27 March 2015 (UTC)