[Discuss] Persistent mode with Mandriva live CD

[John Blomfield]

Murray Strome wrote:
> I wonder if anyone knows how to make the Mandriva live CD persistent. 
> This is easy with Knoppix, difficult with Kubuntu, and I have been 
> unable to find anything that would tell me how to do it with 
> Mandriva.  Has anyone discovered an easy to do this?
>
> The reason I am trying Mandriva is that it is the distribution I have 
> found that actually detects my wireless card and lets me configure it 
> to access my secure wireless network without any difficulty at all.
>
> I don't want to actually install in on my laptop until I can be 
> certain that I can find a way to do it that does not touch the MBR (I 
> would want to boot from either CD or USB Flash Drive using the built 
> in Boot Manager).
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
I am not sure I understand what you are doing with the Live CD?  When 
you run a Live CD it does not do anything to your MBR or harddrives 
although it might use a swap partition if it finds one that exists. I 
simply installs Linux in RAM and then accesses the various programs on 
the CD and brings them into RAM as required. i.e. uses your CD like a 
hard drive.  The only way a Live CD will affect anything on your HD is 
if you click on the "Install" icon!  As I mentioned before the Live CD 
instance of Linux will access a Pen Drive if its plugged in.

John Blomfield
> Murray
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