Hot! Hot! MandrakeMove : move with Internet, Office & Multimedia in your pocket! Boots on a CD!

[SIPBuilder]

Puppy Linux is extremely small and can be used with usb flash drives, zip disks, floppies or external hd

I am certain that there are others as well. Check out www.distrowatch.com for a pretty decent list and info

In addition to Knoppix that uses KDE, there is one called Gnoppix that uses Gnome...

PCLINUXOS Beta 4 which was just released can be installed to HD also...

 

[kassaam]

Originally posted by: Scyber
Anyone know of a bootable distro that is small enough to fit on one of those mini-cd discs? It would be nice to have a compeltely pocketsized linux distro.

LNX-BBC

 

[ww4397]

I downloaded MandrakeMove and burned it to CD.

Unfortunately, as with most of the "on the fly" Linux distros used on a nForce2 based board, this one did not establish a network connection. I'm using a EPoX 8RDA+ (nForce2) board.

So far, the only "on the fly" distro that gets a network connection with my board is Overclockix.

 

[SUOrangeman]

I think nVidia has done/is doing funky things with their drivers (like not releasing source code and/or strange licensing) that prevents inclusion in various distros. I don't think we can fault the distros on this issue.

-SUO

 

[ww4397]

Originally posted by: SUOrangeman
I think nVidia has done/is doing funky things with their drivers (like not releasing source code and/or strange licensing) that prevents inclusion in various distros. I don't think we can fault the distros on this issue.

-SUO

I wonder how Overclockix was able to get working drivers for nVidia onboard network cards? What is preventing other distros from doing what Overclockix has already done...

 

[kof]

I've a hosed Toshiba laptop (XP home) which ONLY has an internal DVD/CD reader (a $600 special).
Norton Ghost would not work with USB devices I had.
Knoppix would not boot
MandrakeMove boot's, let me see the drives, and back up to a Sony +/- DVD/CD writer.
A savior.
I'd recommend it and Knoppix in everybody's tool kit.

 

[sianof]

A Heads up to all the Nvidia Board people.
I have the Asus A7N8X Deluxe and it has 2 Nic Cards. One is 3com and one is nvidia I believe. Both Built in. I know that when I am booting Windows I use the Nvidia by default, and the 3com with the Bootup Linux Distros.

I forget if the epox has 2 ethernet nics built in or not. I almost bought that board and splurged on this one.

So that's a heads up to the A7N8X owners and if anyone has 2 ethernet try both. And make sure to reboot to double check.

By the way, I tried Mandrake. Definitely has pros and cons versus Knoppix.
Good Luck
Frank S

 

[sianof]

Originally posted by: kof
I've a hosed Toshiba laptop (XP home) which ONLY has an internal DVD/CD reader (a $600 special).
Norton Ghost would not work with USB devices I had.
Knoppix would not boot
MandrakeMove boot's, let me see the drives, and back up to a Sony +/- DVD/CD writer.
A savior.
I'd recommend it and Knoppix in everybody's tool kit.

I managed to go to Circuit City and Drop the Knoppix CD in a few different Computers

Found out that Toshiba's have some type of booting problems. Where Compaq's and HP's booted flawlessly. So you know what I ended up getting. a $599 Comp USA Rebate Compaq Special. I managed to drop more ram to boost me up to 768 MB and now this thing should be good. It will be for play, work, and mostly to learn and turn over to straight linux eventually with minor windows.

I have heard that you can get a toshiba to work...it just takes work and know how.
Good Luck
Frank S

 

[RideFree]

Originally posted by: ww4397
I downloaded MandrakeMove and burned it to CD.

Unfortunately, as with most of the "on the fly" Linux distros used on a nForce2 based board, this one did not establish a network connection. I'm using a EPoX 8RDA+ (nForce2) board.

So far, the only "on the fly" distro that gets a network connection with my board is Overclockix.

Mandrake, RedHat...the lot of 'em recognize either the 3-Com or Realteck controller (I don't remember which) on the Asus Deluxe boards with two NICs. i.e.if one doesn't work, the other will at boot-up...then you can go into the desktop/OS and enable the other NIC. Then, they both work.

 

[Long]

www.Knoppix.net "been there done that"

MandrakeMove is old news. Been doing most of what MandrakeMove claims with Knoppix. Actually, I got Knoppix for built-in support of wireless sniffers.

 

[SuperShaz]

Originally posted by: Long
www.Knoppix.net "been there done that"

MandrakeMove is old news. Been doing most of what MandrakeMove claims with Knoppix. Actually, I got Knoppix for built-in support of wireless sniffers.

Knoppix was mentioned in the first reply, and several times there-on. Thanks for reading the thread.

 

[SemperFi]

Hey, I have a question. will this read a NTFS file system? I know earlier versions of Linux wouldn't but it has been a while since I have done any reading.

 

[Jonny5alive]

Originally posted by: SemperFi
Hey, I have a question. will this read a NTFS file system? I know earlier versions of Linux wouldn't but it has been a while since I have done any reading.

Yeah it will.....at least Knoppix will.
Just downloaded Knoppix, burned it, and popped it in the cd drive and boom.......I'm playing on a linux laptop(HP n5350 p3-850mzh.) Wow, that's so cool!
Let the learning begin! First time ever using Linux, and I'm really impressed.

As for NTFS....Win2k Pro is my regular OS, and my hd is ntfs formatted....and I'm still able to read everything on there (play mp3s, open office docs, ect) from the Knoppix boot.

Definately worth playing with, and keeping around in case (when) Windows craps out.

I'm going to try MandrakeMove now and see what's that like.

Thanks!

 

[Bladesonfire]

Originally posted by: Jonny5alive

Originally posted by: SemperFi
Hey, I have a question. will this read a NTFS file system? I know earlier versions of Linux wouldn't but it has been a while since I have done any reading.

Yeah it will.....at least Knoppix will.
Just downloaded Knoppix, burned it, and popped it in the cd drive and boom.......I'm playing on a linux laptop(HP n5350 p3-850mzh.) Wow, that's so cool!
Let the learning begin! First time ever using Linux, and I'm really impressed.

As for NTFS....Win2k Pro is my regular OS, and my hd is ntfs formatted....and I'm still able to read everything on there (play mp3s, open office docs, ect) from the Knoppix boot.

Definately worth playing with, and keeping around in case (when) Windows craps out.

I'm going to try MandrakeMove now and see what's that like.

Thanks!

Just don't try to write and you're a-okay. Slackware and SuSE also have live CDs. SuSE will pretty much configure everything for you (I can watch TV using my TV tuner card when using SuSE and I didn't configure a damn thing). Slackware is nearly the opposite, but if you can learn Slackware, I don't think you'll want to use anythign else
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[a2k]

As of January 8, the general release of MandrakeMove (non-beta) is available for download.

 

[Dug]

As usual, Mandrake doesn't work with the latest and greatest.
As in Radeon 9500-9800 cards.

Typical.

 

[papaschtroumpf]

I already have a USB key so I'm not interested in the packaged one.
Any confirmation that the downloaded version will NOT allow you to put your home directory and other settings on the USB key?

If that's true then this is relatively useless (and I'm a big Mandrake fan, running 9.2 on one of my desktops) because knoppix allows you to do it, and at leaswt with knoppix you can remaster the CD if there is something you want that's missing (like binary-only NVidia dirvers that Mandrake can't include in their distro becasue they're not open source).