Overview

THIS TUTORIAL ONLY SUPPORTS TINYCORE 4 FOR TINYCORE 5 THERE IS A SOLUTION IN THE COMMENTS BELOW BY Alejo

Tiny Core Linux is one of the smallest Linux distributions out there. We will show you how to customize Tiny Core Linux Remote Desktop Kiosk so it will automatically launch a Remote Desktop client and set a Static IP address.

Download Tiny Core

First you need to download Tiny Core Linux Make sure you choose TinyCore.iso and not Core/CorePlus.

Add Tiny Core Packages

We used these packages (some are already located within the ISO file at /tce/optional/):

compiletc.tcz,compiletc.tcz.md5.txt
libao.tcz,libao.tcz.md5.txt
libusb.tcz,libusb.tcz.md5.txt
openssl-1.0.0.tcz,openssl-1.0.0.tcz.md5.txt
pcsc-lite.tcz,pcsc-lite.tcz.md5.txt
rdesktop.tcz,rdesktop.tcz.md5.txt
Xlibs.tcz,Xlibs.tcz.md5.txt
Xvesa.tcz,Xvesa.tcz.md5.txt

Download the needed packages from the TCZ repository, and place them into the ISO file at /tce/optional/, we used PowerISO trial edition to complete this task.

The rest of the packages in /cde/optional/ are unneeded for the Remote Desktop Kisok and should be deleted.

Update the start-up files to include the packages, files are located at /cde/ and are called: text copy2fs.lst, onboot.lst, xbase.lst Edit all three files to look like this: ```text Xlibs.tcz Xvesa.tcz compiletc.tcz libao.tcz libusb.tcz openssl-1.0.0.tcz pcsc-lite.tcz rdesktop.tcz


# Edit /boot/core.gz

Move and Extract the content of core.gz to a temporary directory: ```bash
zcat core.gz | cpio -i -H newc -d
``` Now you can continue to the next couple of steps.

## Start rdesktop after boot

Create a start-up script called myremote.sh: ```bash
#!/bin/sh # put other system startup commands here

while x=0 do sleep 5 /usr/local/bin/rdesktop -u username -p password hostname-ipaddress -f -0 done
``` Place it at /home/tc/.X.d/ and make sure it is executable: ```bash
chmode +x /home/tc/.X.d/myremote.sh

Edit /opt/shutdown.sh and add the next line after the first line: ```bash . /etc/init.d/tc-functions


## Static IP configuration

Create a stat-up script called eth0.sh: ```bash
#!/bin/sh pkill udhcpc ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 up route add default gw 192.168.0.254 echo nameserver 192.168.0.10 > /etc/resolv.conf echo nameserver 192.168.0.11 >> /etc/resolv.conf

edit /opt/bootlocal.sh and add the next line at the end: ```bash /opt/eth0.sh


edit /opt/.filetool.lst and add the next line at the end: ```text
/opt/eth0.sh

Repack core.gz into the ISO file

delete core.gz file and then update the needed files and repack core.gz to /: ```bash find | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -2 > /core.gz


replace core.gz within the ISO file

# Create a boot-able Memory Card / USB drive

You can use [core2usb](http://sourceforge.net/projects/core2usb/) to create a flash drive from your ISO.

![Tiny Core Linux Remote Desktop Kiosk core2usb](images/core2usb-300x158.png)

You can use any Hyper-visor to check the ISO of the Tiny Core Linux Remote Desktop.

Enjoy

Build a Remote Desktop Kiosk with Tiny Core Linux

Overview

Download Tiny Core

Add Tiny Core Packages

Repack core.gz into the ISO file