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Von Thomas Sternasky, Montag, Juli 30, 2012

firefoxbook a free chromebook replacement – Screen after boot

A free Howto to get a free Chromebook Replacement: Called Firefoxbook

Everybody knows a product called chromebook, but you must not buy such a laptop with branded OS! Here is a small  Howto get a similar Laptop with free firefox.

How does it work? Easy, the Laptop boots from Stick or CF-Card to RAMDISK, the firefox profile and cache is always new created at non permanent RAMDISK. The private Mode surpress cookie and other waste. Only the Window Settings are stored (Fullscreen/ F11). After boot the Internet is connected and Firefox is shown on Desktop.

All you need:

• a Laptop, can be a older one, i prefer Thinkpads
• a Wireless/LAN Card if not available inside
• 4GB USB Stick or 4GB CF-Disk with ATA-CF-Adaptor
• Time to work
• Tinycorelinux at CD source http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/

Let’s do:

• Download Tinycorelinux and burn it to CD
• reboot the Laptop on the CD to tinycore
• open a Terminal and enter #sudo tc-install
• follow instructions
• reboot the Laptop and remove the CD
• boot the Laptop on the USB Stick
• check network connection
• if not available plugin LAN cable reboot again on stick
• or setup WIFI with the WIFI Manager
• check internet connection again
• NOW LETS MAKE SAFE!
• if the Laptop is online install firefox with: #tce-load -wi firefox
• NOW!! Create first a firefox profile on the RAMDISK!!
• do run as tc user #firefox -P
• create new firefox profilename “tmp” locate it at /tmp
• now run as user tc #firefox, close firefox!
• edit now /opt/.filetool.lst with #sudo vi /opt/.filetool.lst
• add “tmp/localstore.rdf” line, close and save
• edit as user tc #vi /home/tc/.setbackground
• add line “sh /tmp/tcloop/firefox/usr/local/firefox-official/firefox –private”
• save settings to USB Stick called mydata.tgz with #filetool.sh -b”
• run #sudo reboot

Enjoy a Firefoxbook with always safe browsing option! On every reboot the old cached data are really lost cause the profile is always placed inside ramdisk and never on chip!

Do always reboot or shutdown without backup by menu, or push only the Laptop Power Button to auto delete waste at poweroff. Other Browsers can be used also (Opera).

If you have problems mail me.. Wenn Sie Probleme haben schreiben Sie mir…

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Von Thomas Sternasky, Samstag, Mai 26, 2012

Problem: FreeBSD 9 use GPT Partitionlabel by default to remove with Linux do:

fdisk message: WARNING: GTP (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdX'
The util fdisk isn't support GPT.

do on console:

sudo parted /dev/sdX


mklabel msdos (Enter Yes!)
quit

now use Linux fdisk to recreate a new partion Table

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Von Thomas Sternasky, Montag, März 21, 2011

Problem: If you want to work faster with your Openbox Desktop you should use Keyboard Shortcuts for often used Programs like Internet, Mail and Run Command box.

Solution:  edit as user $nano /home/user/.config/openbox/rc.xml insert

#Fullscreen CTRL+F11
<keybind key="C-F11">
      <action name="ToggleFullscreen"/>
</keybind>
#RunCommand with gmrun on X CTRL+R
<keybind key="C-R">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>gmrun</execute>
      </action>
</keybind>
#Internet Key with chromium CTRL+I
<keybind key="C-i">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>chromium-browser</execute>
      </action>
</keybind>
#Internet Mail with icedove CTRL+M
<keybind key="C-M">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>icedove</execute>
      </action>
</keybind>

Remark: Its powerful on small Netbooks or Laptops cause you don’t need to use tricky Touchpads!

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Von Thomas Sternasky, Mittwoch, Januar 19, 2011

Problem: If you have bought a Thin Client Terminal, you lost updates after some years, cause the manufacter closes the support, or you have to pay for the Upgrades.

Solution:
To reuse the old Hardware take a closer look on www.tinycorelinux.com There you find a very small modular Linux. You must not buy new Hardware! Tinycorelinux runs on x86 (Intel/AMD/Via) Hardware with a current 2.6 Kernel inside a RAMDISK.

Preferred Applications:

• Kiosk Internet Box
• Internet Radio
• Netbook with full ThinClient Support for High Security Travel (Company’s)
• Internet PC
• Office PC
• Fast energy saving embedded PC with ramdisk Use
• SSH Terminal
• Embedded Server (NAS+FTP)
• PC controlled Info-Screens like Store, Hotel or Airport TFT Info Screens
• Embedded Tablet PCs

Tinycorelinux is easy to setup and offer good documentations about config and application setup.

The requirements:

• x86 CPU
• 32MB> Diskspace
• Support Intel,AMD and Via CPU (Samuel 2 too, no cmov reboot bug)
• Support various kinds of media, USB Stick, FlashDisk, IDE and SATA-HDD, CDROM
• embedded S3 Via Graphic supported
• must have internet access to get additional software packages called modules

Must know:

At first read the howtos about the different kernel boot switches cause here you set parameters for the Linux on RAM.

for example:

tinycore user=tom vga=791 hdc1=home sda1=tce secure noautologin kmap=qwertz/latin-1 lang=de

• user= set the used username (default=tc)
• vga= enable framebuffer on screens
• hdc1= set a usbdisk plugged in to home
• sda1= set a usbstick to save installed programs like firefox
• secure= ask on boot for user + root password (must be)
• noautologin= stop at login prompt (Console)
• kmap set keymap (for German install kmap paket, if  not US is forced)
• lang= set language  (for other language install lang paket, if not US is forced)

tinycorelinux desktop