[Discuss] Persistent mode with Mandriva live CD

[John Blomfield]

Murray Strome wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Blomfield <jabfield at shaw.ca>
> Date: Friday, December 14, 2007 11:31 pm
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Persistent mode with Mandriva live CD
> To: Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca>
>
> > Murray Strome wrote:
> > > John Blomfield wrote:
> > >> I think this is what I was saying above?  You appear to
> > have a full
> > >> install on your Pen Drive NOT a Live image.  With an 8G
> > pen there
> > >> aren't any restraints on the number of packages you can
> > install.  But
> > >> be warned if you are planning to use this on someone else's
> > computer
> > >> that may have a completely different BIOS and you will not be
> > able to
> > >> boot it without a boot CD.
> > >>
> > >> John Blomfield
> > >>
> > > I realize that this may not work on another computer,
> > especially since
> > > it is the 64-bit version!  And it probably is a full
> > install, but it
> > > doesn't matter to me as the HD MBR is unscathed, I can access
> > all the
> > > Windows partitions OK, and I also have a 20GB LINUX partition
> > on the
> > > HD onto which I have now copied most of my home directory from
> > my
> > > working Desktop LINUX machine.
> > >
> > This is all very interesting!  Out of curiosity I tried to
> > do a full
> > install from Kubuntu Desktop CD and from Fedora KDE Live CD but
> > both
> > failed because my pen is only 2GB and both distros want 2GB ext3
> > plus
> > 250MB swap.  However, I was able to get far enough along to
> > confirm that
> > it would work in principle given enough Giga Bytes.  This
> > would be a lot
> > simpler than the command line approach outline in the Ubuntu
> > guide you
> > used but may take longer.
> >
> > The other interesting point is that the Fedora and Kubuntu Live
> > CD's
> > uses a completely different format.  Fedora as I mentioned
> > before uses a
> > compressed image file where as Kubuntu uses an open file tree
> > with
> > (would you believe) Windows executable files and dll's.  I
> > wonder what
> > license covers that???????????  Kubuntu must be using a
> > Windows based
> > installer?
> >
> > John Blomfield
> I think the Windows stuff is used for looking at the material from 
> Windows, not installation.  I had tried to do an install to a pen 
> drive some time ago, putting the boot (GRUB) on the USB drive, but it 
> messed up the MBR. It took a lot of work to fix that in VISTA (much 
> more complicated than XP). The installation I did using the method I 
> outlined earlier worked fine. If the USB drive is in place, Kubuntu 
> boots.  If it is not inserted, VISTA boots normally.
>  
> Murray
Have you tried updating your software yet?

John