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MandrakeMove Final Available for Download
hendridm writes "According to the Mandrake Linux web page, 'MandrakeMove is available for download - Everything for Office, Multimedia and Internet on a single live CD: the final version of MandrakeMove Download Edition is now publicly available for download. Make your Windows-friends discover how powerful and friendly Mandrake Linux is: this couldn't be easier than with MandrakeMove!' Go team." (We mentioned this version of Mandrake before; of course, if you download, you don't get a memory key with the deal ;))
I don't really understand what the Move part of it means. Is that move from Windows, move around, mobile...? The web site doesn't seem to explain.
I am moving away from RedHat 8 and I'm still doubting between Mandrake and Fedora. Guess this settles it... or not? Which one should I choose?
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I know you dont get the Key but does that mean you can't use one??? Surely someone out there will write something to get around this. If anyone knows of a way around this please post it here.
# The MandrakeMove Boxed Edition is now available at MandrakeStore.com. The Boxed Edition provides the MandrakeMove system, plus the capability to save configuration and personal data to a USB key, plus additional commercial software such as NVidia(R) drivers, Acrobat(R) ReaderTM, RealPlayerTM, FlashPlayerTM, and MandrakeMove documentation.
I call that a good reason to buy the boxed version. When travelling, this is the perfect way to have your office at hand with 99% of the Wintel-Boxes out there.
Is kicking himself he didn't get a patent on his _live_ cd design.
Remember that knoppix is still a geek orientated distro. It is based on debian, has hundreds of apps with confusing labels. What is a mc, qtparted, rosegarden for example. Also you need to enter a COMMAND LINE (evil, evil evil!) to enable the USB key on knoppix. Mandrake is a distro for the rest of us.
It dosen't come close to Konppix. MandrakeMove *assumes* that you have at least a 128MB USB memory key plugged into the PC because you still have to set it up. That's a bad thing. I'll still use Knoppix.
Hopefully this will work better for me than knoppix. I could never get my laptop(dell latitude lt, P1 233 mmx, 64mb ram, 4Gb HD) to boot to knoppix. I'd like to switch to linux, patrly because they're dropping support for win98 this week, and i really only need web, e-mail, IM etc. but i need support for a pcmcia cd-rom drive and my wireless card as well as my watch.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
MandrakeMove is Mandrake Linux on a boot CD. That's right, it requires no hard drive. Everything is stored in RAM. That's about as simple as it gets.
I moved _away_ from Mandrake.
Too buggy. It was a nice learning system though for moving from windows to Linux. Plenty of bugs and problems to fight with.
I finally got tired of Mandrake problems, not just me but all the family and friends I support, and moved everyone to Suse.
Rock solid. ALL features work right out of the box with the exception of burning MP3's to audio CDR with K3b (Suse forgot to include MP3 support on compilation) but an update is online.
Suse is great. Mandrake, eh... Yeah I tried it, for a year and a half and it helped me learn and adjust to Linux. It's OK for newbies but it IS buggy...
...has been available for some time now.
(I wonder how that happened?)
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Anyone move from RH 7.x/9 to Mandrake and care to comment? I've been happily using RH for web (Apache, Cold Fusion, and PHP) and mail services but their recent business changes have made me consider other distros. Is there really much of a difference in a server environment?
In fact they are lucky if they have ANY friends. That's why we form LUGs and do not speak of this Microsoft outfit.
When we hear of 'that other OS' we immediately think that it is talk about BSD.
We giggle when hearing about Mandrake. Damn newbies.
I don't understand, yet alone agree....
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Anyone know if this is based on 2.6?
- C.
Would this edition be suitable for trying on Linux as my main desktop PC without comitting myself to partitioning and installing? I'd like to see how well my Windows apps perform under whatever the mdoern equivalent of WINE is...
I could never get my laptop(dell latitude lt, P1 233 mmx, 64mb ram, 4Gb HD) to boot to knoppix. [...] i need support for a pcmcia cd-rom drive and my wireless card as well as my watch
your watch should be supported without problems, as an usb-scsi storage device. that's how my HP320 digital camera(128 MB) and nokia 5510(64 MB) work.
when you check this out, plesase tell us whether MandrakeMove works better than Knoppix
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I've got to admit, this is a great idea. It's been done before with Knoppix, DemoLinux, and several others, but this is the fist one that has come out from a major linux company.
The name on the other hand doesn't sound right. "MandrakeMove" sounds like some file moving software from one computer to another. It does not sound like a bootable version of Linux.
Great idea, but two questions:
1. I tried an earlier version of Mandrake, it was astonishingly buggy. Have they instituted some sort of QA program?
2. Does it have, out-of-the-box, screen fonts that don't suck, i.e., that are as good as Windows fonts circa 1995? I can't use the nasty pixelated screen fonts that come with most distros, and I don't have time to mess with hacks to get good-looking fonts to appear.
I don't really need everything packaged onto a single disk. I use Slax or LNX-BBC to boot computers into a basic Linux configuration. Then I just use SSH and tunnel an X connection through it. That makes it like I am sitting at my own computer, with my own network resources, and my own user configurations. I also find it handy to have some basic recovery tools for fixing computers while I am on the go. I prefer something that will fit on an 8cm mini-disc.
Being a little more windows dependant that some slashdot folk, I always find trying to switch my laptop to 100% linux is a little like giving up smoking... I always seem to relapse to windows (or at best dual boot).
I like using unix style operating systems for work, but it can be hard to leave some of the games behind. I also get my fair share of driver issues and havent quite managed to get vid conf from a linux desktop to a windows desktop working.
The idea of having a CD that I throw in to boot an OS used for serious work seems like a good one to me, that way I still get windows (lets face it, most of us have already paid for it anyway!), its a best of both worlds.
I have one concern, presumably the OS needs a partition to write temporary data to, and even if it doesnt what good is an OS that cant save files to disk (before anyone gets smart, I will qualify that with a desktop operating system for your standard PC/Laptop).
So the $64'000 is, how reliable is the NTFS support? I read things like "Dont write to NTFS, it could trash the partition!", which basically is a show-stopper for me...
Maybe im way out of date, but a quick glance at the Mandrake move website didnt give me the info.
Can anyone clear this up?
it hangs on my laptop where mandrake 9.2
(after fiddling around) is installed and knoppix shines.. wtf ??
need to play around with some of the parameters I guess.
why is ACPI such a problem for some distros ??
I'd rather see more focus on a core linux that is fast and capable, with reliable drivers...something capable of running a java vm and the upcoming Java Desktop reliably.
I've been trying a number of deaktop apps in the mulimedia space, and it's a huge moving target. Interfaces upon interfaces upon interfaces, all depending on each other, all demanding that bug reporters recompile everything with debugging enabled and provide backtraces, each group a little clique pointing their fingers at the other cliques...none of the apis are stable, not even the default locations of the libs, constant whining in the configure scripts about "whatever.pc" needing to be updated, lower layer drivers (jackit.sourceforge.net) are listed as alpha, but people writing audio apps claim their code is "beta" or "production" yet it requires this "jack" daemon, which freezes every box i run it on within 5 minutes? Absurd.
It's going to take a single entity, like Sun or IBM, to create a "Java Desktop" that runs on top of the VM. This would be a fully guided effort, one that leaves the lower layers to the pros and lets developers write all the crap they want on top--and usually gives quality backtraces right from the get go.
Best of all, one quality API that easily extensible for pretty much anything, and has been beaten on for ten years...almost as long as the linux kernel. In one fell swoop, KDE/Qt/Gnome all go into the toilet, where, IMHO, they belong. Note I didn't say GTK, for obvious reasons.
This gets the hardcore developers back to what they do best--creating and maintaining a glue layer. There's no reason that the people working on Gnome/KDE/Qt could not rally behind a free VM/Swing/whatever implementation, making the best one on the planet.
The kernel is a solid, stable interface, it's for the most kickass developers to move up a layer and get a fantastic VM and Swing-type toolkit working, so developers can rally around a development environment that is stable and works.
I'm buying Mandrake 9.2 I use Redhat, Debian, and OpenBSD mainly but I tried Mandrake 9.1 on my laptop and replaced Redhat w/ it. urpmi surprised me (almost as good as apt) and the overall speed is noticeably better than Redhat. Combine this w/ the excellent packages from texstar and plf and I'm very happy.
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NTFS is generally kernel stuff. Writing is, at least in 2.4, NOT recommended. The Linux-NTFS people say that the risk of failure is.. big.
But for 2.6 kernels, there's another world. The "new" NTFS drivers are better, and reads perfectly well. Quoting the Linux-NTFS website: The new driver, introduced in 2.5.11, has some write code, but it's very limited. The driver can overwrite existing files, but it cannot change the length, add new or delete existing files.
All in all, NTFS isn't reliable except for reading in 2.6 kernels. These NTFS drivers are in the kernel tree.
A good FAQ is at this place
FAT sucks, but works brilliantly for almost nothing. Like temp files.
If you're lucky, the Mandrake folks gave you the availability to write temp files to the USB key (boxed Mandrake Move). I don't know, though.
Make your Windows-friends discover how powerful and friendly Mandrake Linux is: this couldn't be easier than with MandrakeMove!
Friends don't MAKE friends do anything. Sometimes I encourage them to try something. Sometimes I suggest they not do something. Mandrake Linux, the distro for Kim Jong-il. Make your friends use it! Or else!
What is involved in customizing (making changes to desktop theme, what apps are installed, any other settings) and remastering (burning a new live CD that includes your changes but is otherwise just like the original) the MandrakeMove compared to the Knoppix?
The idea of being able to make custom live CDs is extremely appealing, but it is not a trivial process, at least for Knoppix. There are many gory details to keep track of. And last I checked there was a detailed document of the steps involved, but it did not convey information about the Knoppix boot process and structure (i.e. it didn't really help you understand how your changes were being preserved), only what to type in order to remaster.
Also, there is apparently some bug with ext2 and hard links that messes up the size of the new image. For example, if you boot Knoppix, extract it to a partition, and then make no changes but immediately compress it back into an ISO (remaster it), the result should be identical to the CD you booted from, but instead the new ISO is several megs larger than the original CD and will not fit on a disc.
Is perhaps Morphix a better way for custom live CDs? Or is it not yet polished enough to make it "easy"?
Examples - Open Office releases a newer version than what's on the CD (with a 300Mb footprint), or there's a browser secuity patch. Now what?
Seems like expansion may be limited.
I have an iPod and the USB cable. What would it take to use the iPod instead of a keychain?
you can't patent the word mobile... hell you can't trademark it (this would apply more).
It should have been called Mobile Mandrake V.1.2.4.4.4.5.6-7 like every other pos geek naming convention.
bah.. might as well call it Mobile mandrake XP codename Thunderbitch.
Mandrake may have the desktop experience to do this well, but the field is very competitive. With all the variants of knoppix out there, they need to stand out from a big crowd. Selling it with a USB key might help to differentiate it from the others, and of course there's urpmi.
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/12/02/1536227.shtm l :), supposingly it's real easy to install, and works on kernel 2.4 and 2.6.
I'm particularly thankful for them because they make my laptop with a dead hard drive usable.
mepis.org doesn't seem to resolve...
There is a knoppix remastering called DamnSmallLinux - Designed to run on small CDs, but can be modified to boot from a USB key! :) Oh, yeah, and it's 50 MB! :) How's that for light and portable?
The distro runs FluxBox as the WM, it has a browser, email client, word processor, file mananger, instant messenger, picture viewer, image editing, spreadsheet and a lot more
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The download version is worthless because of the features cut out from it and the payware version doesn't have anything I haven't seen in a ton of other Knoppix mods. Nvidia drivers, flash, USB Thumbdrive support, acrobat? These are all things many LiveCd's have.
I just don't see the point of this distro except for Mandrake users who don't know that you can download basically the same thing for free with other Live cd's. The things Mandrake is known for, ie ease of install, ease of longterm admin don't apply in the transient nature of Live cd's. Compared to what's already available for Free the Mandrake version is just not compelling enough to make people pay for it.
Hope they are doing this more as a service then something they actually hope to make money on.
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Any bootable Linux CD distro use the 2.6 kernel?
Those command line utilities are the best thing of Knoppix.
The most common use of Knoppix is imaging or restoring your installed linux or other OS with partimage
Why there is no partimage on Mandrake move?
Besides, knoppix has better hardware support. I've noticed Mandrake move has problems recognizing some external firewire disks
With knoppix I use partimage with an external firewire to image/restore my installed OSES.
How I am supposed to do that with Mandrake move?
Is is possible to remaster Mandrake move?
Knoppikx makes remastering easy.
There is a handful of good run-off-cd linux options available. They tend to work well. Some fit on mini-cds. I find it easier to have different cds for different moods and uses. And rolling your own is now within reach of mere, mortal, slightly maniacal amateurs - as yours truly, here.
All-in-ones tend to be more bother than they're worth. Oh, my linux is a Mandrake 9.2ish (no LG meltdown, yet). I tend to toggle between distro's, depending on what needs doing most around spring computer-cleaning time.
Could this mean that the $19.90 version is really a "download" version, without USB Key support?
I would like to know, as I already have several USB drives, purchased before the recent price increase. (I have a 256 MB that I got for $52.00).
I plan on using Mandrake Move with a P4 HT, with 800 mhz bus, and 1 GB ram, so the setup ought to fly along nicely. I do note that the system requirements are much much less, however, according to Mandrake. Generally, I've found that once Linux loads, you can work along ok with challenged hardware. I have SuSE 6.3 on a 32 MB, 25 mhz bus 100 mhz processor system, and although it takes some time to load, once there, games and kwrite work very well indeed. Even GIMP can accomplish some work, but can crash occasionally.
Looking forward to MandrakeMove, but would like to know about USB support on the $19.90 CD.
well, some one had to sight this.
What the heck, I'll defend this guy.
His post was a joke and you are a humorless blob.
1. Any game that won't run on Linux.
2. Bull Sausage. I've yet to find a distro that meets my very modest requirements without having to RTFM.
3. He's being funny you humorless blob.
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5. He's being funny you humorless blob.
6. He's being funny you humorless blob.
7. He's being funny you humorless blob.
8. I'll give you this one, but only because Windows has the same problem. The "latest hardware" is a moving target, and *every* OS is going to have trouble with it.
9. He's being funny you humorless blob.
10. He's being funny you humorless blob.
11. You are humorless blob.
I agree! I just read about Knoppix in the most recent PC World issue. Redhat 9.2 ran so slow on my older computers so I was waiting until I got a new computer to run it on my current machine.
I've had problems before running Linux dualboot and then restoring it back to windows. This is awesome though because I can basically run this without too much worry about major change in my system. The USB Key is a cool idea to me too! Portable OS and storage, how could you possibly lose?
You shoulda posted logged in. I would have modded you funny at least, maybe even informative.
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I pass out Knoppix discs to new users all the time. There's no log in, there's no boot paramters, any issues are handled with plain english questions, and most of all, it's visually pleasing. They love it. It gets them started on Linux. You'd be surprised how many people miss DOS and prefer command line, even non-geek computer users.
I dont know what standard you use for geekness, but I consider Gentoo, Debian, or BSD to be geek oriented os's.
I'm pretty sure patenting a linux distribution would involve a GPL violation. There are bits in the GPL to prevent you from patenting something you GPL then demanding royalties. It's a pretty well thought out license.
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I'm not supposed to get jigs in it!
Figured hey! The lady just wants to be able
to play DVD's on her computer that doesn't
have a harddrive anymore.
PBBBBBbbbbbbbbbt!!!
Thanks for nothing Mandrake........
"The source seems encrypted, and can't be read. Are you trying to
play an encrypted DVD without libdvdcss?"
Dumbasses....... IF you fix it... I can use it.
Between that and half the DVD's won't even start playing, uhhh...... (back to the drawing board Mandrake)
That and try adding a routine to CHECK for a damn
DVD drive that ISN'T in use and dump the memory load crud. (Nice feature if you've only got the one cdrom drive but Daaaaamn annoying if you have a second cdrom/dvd drive.)
Friday I got PCLinuxOS and tonight [speedy download] MandrakeMove. BOTH ARE CRIPPLED...... System Soyo DragonLite, AMD 2600+, 512m PC2700, Maxtor 80g 133, Asus 56xx [MX-440 dual head]. PCLinuxOS leave main monitor [one Win2k boots to] with 8 blue lines at the bottom and nothing on 2nd monitor. MandrakeMove booted but to the 2nd monitor. Does not correctly see the VIA 82xx LAN [on board] and will not do DHCP to SMC 7004VBR. Crashed out several times after tring to config network with KDE can not initialize DCOP [or some line like that] and no applications will run, not even MdkMove configure. PCLinux worked at the office in a FIC-13, AMD 2700+, MX-400 video, 512 PC2700, Maxtor 80g 133. Had to monkey the net config and default gateway 192.168.10.1 [same as here]. Will see in the morning how MdkMove works there.
What's the best Linux Live CD for
JUST PLAYING DVD's?????
Ever hear of BETA? ROTFL
Still... the free one sucks anyway, even though
it didn't give me a hassle about not having a USB key.
I already have a USB key. Is it possible to use that with the downloadable Mandrake Move?
J
Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit.
better than the downloaded version.
Anyone out there know if they include
libdvdcss support in the PAID version???
(If not it's a piece of shite for MM)
Took a quick run through Mandrake Move, and I think I've decided it's great for Mandrake users, but not as a Windows migration path. Here are a couple of things I noticed: /mnt, but at easy to find icon would be good
- fat partitions were recognized and mounted under
- could not find configuration or documentation about palm sync'ing.
- menu items are nicely named by function rather than program name, but sometimes understate what they do. ie: with a menu option like 'create a web page' I would expect a WYSIWIG editor, instead it launches Quanta, a down and dirty HTML editor.
- user intervetion is required on boot to do things like select language. This means that you really do need the USB key enabled version so that you can store these settings.
That said, it booted and configured itself properly, looks pretty, and seems to have lots of apps.
Knoppix supports USB memory keys.
Most Live CD's support them now.
I've just torqued this CD and there's nothing
on here that's worth choosing it over other Live CD's.
who posted the parent flamebait actually read what he wrote. The last couple of sentences makes a good point (or at least one I heartily agree with, not necessarily the same thing).
/. groupthink, but I'd hardly mod it as flamebait.
The first half of the post runs somewhat against
Why is there a tutorial for god's sake. The XFree installer should have set it up AA to begin with. How can anyone expect a normal person with no knowledge of how to recompile the kernel or xfree or qt or kde or some other god forsaken component. Yeah, I understand that it is complicated (have to detect versions of various components), but that's what an installer is for. I friend of mine with 10 years of DOS, OS/2 & Windows programming experience recently installed Linux and wanted to enable the sound card. Various responses on the newsgroup basically came down to recompiling & adding something to the kernel. This is nuts.
When travelling, this is the perfect way to have your office at hand with 99% of the Wintel-Boxes out there.
Does it have support for encryption on the USB key ?? (The standard Mandrake already has a great support for encrypted partitions & data)
If it does, it would be one of the biggest promotion points (IMHO) ..
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I was just wondering whether there is an easy way to 'burn' the MandrakeMove CD onto my Thinkpad's harddisk and run it from there as it will probably be faster to boot up.
I know this is going to probably be moderated down as a troll or flamebait but I am just telling you my experiences I had with 2 machines when I tried it.
Portage does have dependancies as well on other ports. Particularly dependancy hell on broken ports that are not as well tested as most distros or *BSD.
Debian and Slackware tend to be more stable, while Suse and Redhat or in the middle, and Gentoo and Mandrake are very cutting edge and have a tendancy to be buggy.
Gentoo == bleeding edge! In my observation I noticed lots of problems with its port tree being potentially broken at any given time. Sometimes a portage x may work and sometimes it wont and will stop with an error.
I got close to an install last time but xmms would fail and is a critical component of kde. I went to the Gentoo message boards and it was confirmed on the buglist. Sadly it was still required to get any gui to run. I supposed I could of edited the python scripts to ignore that dependancy but its the distro's job to do that for me. If XMMS was broken and acknowledged, then why is it required?
Who cordinates the ports testing? Some kid in a basement testing his own app only? They need a ports maintainer.
I had several experiences with Gentoo installing perl5.8 when I needed 5.6 instead by default. Doing a -p would show the dependancies but I would need to edit the scripts manually to have it not fetch perl 5.8 as an example.
I tried to install Gentoo 4 times over the last 2 years and have not had a sucessfull install! SOmething always does not work or core dumps ever 3 minutes.
If you hate dependancies try FreeBSD. The ports are well tested and really work well. I found only one critical bug and you can cvsupit to get the latest ports tree, or use your older one. Never will it net let you do a "make install clean" because you need to upgrade. Gentoo users always tell me to switch but I feel FreeBSD is alot better.
I prefer the BSD makefiles sooo much more over the overly complex portage one. They just work and are alot simplier.
ALso look at Debian. Apt-get is a great way to avoid rpm hell. However it does have binary dependancies but beware.
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Can't you take the CD, rip it to an iso file, and then mount the iso file with that loopback device thingy? Should make it possible to change the layout of the disk somewhat.
Perhaps you can even trick around with chroot and use the package manager to install/remove packages from the image. I don't know if this is safe or anything.
xkcd is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
I'm given to understand that urpmi actually works pretty well for avoiding dependancy hell, but I haven't installed Mandrake or Redhat lately... As for Debian and apt-get, I gave it a shot, and it worked quite well. Except. I had three packages where I'd gotten dependant on features from the newest version, and Debian (being so stable) did not have the newest versions of those packages (two or three revisions down the tree, as I recall).
I'll probably try something else in the near future, I'm not a distro bigot :) For now, Gentoo works quite well, and I'm still being forced to learn how to make things work. Actually I'm planning on getting the MandrakeMove just so I can a) Impress my friends and family with the beauty that is Unix, and b) see what Mandrake 9.2 looks/feels like.
"Mission Accomplished" -- George W. Bush May 1, 2003
"The MandrakeMove Boxed Edition is now available at MandrakeStore.com. The Boxed Edition provides the MandrakeMove system, plus the capability to save configuration and personal data to a USB key, plus additional commercial software such as NVidia(R) drivers, Acrobat(R) ReaderTM, RealPlayerTM, FlashPlayerTM, and MandrakeMove documentation."
IMHO this distro is nearly useless without these features. Whatever happened to boxed-distro-same-content-as-downloaded-ISO (BDSCDI)?
HAD
Read NTFS in 2.4 is great. Write is going to corrupt the partition. The problem is that NTFS is a closed format held by an illegal monopoly.
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Suse is great.
By 'great', do you mean a great number of subtle, dumb errors which you spend all of your free time and weekends, chasing?
Seems clear you haven't tried Suse9. It is a trainwreck. After losing approx 25% of my productivity over three years with Suse, I am now running Mandrake9.2, and every day am shocked and awed that everything works.
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I played with the "beta" version and had little if any luck. On my main work machine (PIII 800 VIA chipset) all I got was a black screen. I assume it was trying to drive my flat panel at a higher refresh than supported...I didn't notice any easy way to get around this.
On the second machine I tried it on it booted but didn't detect my USB memory stick. After that I pretty much gave up as the two main machines I had intended to use it on failed.
I have in the past used Knoppix with great success, as well as SuSE. Perhaps my problems were in some way related to the "beta" version or my own ignorance, either way not exactly what you call out of the box friendly.
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Off the 'K' menu, under KNOPPIX-Configure, there is a selection to "Create a persistent KNOPPIX Home Directory" - it is fully scripted and GUI-fied, and made specifically to put your persisten info on a USB memory device.
I just put in my compact flash card from my digital camera, in a USB flash-card reader, and it worked fine. It set the thing up without a hitch and it does everything that Mandrake claims (and probably more). The way it works (though you don't have to know this) is by emulating a Linux partition on your memory device by "loopback" mounting an ordinary file (i.e., knoppix.img). That way, you can leave your device formatted as VFAT (which is what most of them want to be), yet APPEAR to the running Linux system to have an ext2 partition. You don't have to rebuild the CD or do any of the low-level fiddling.
The only funky part is that you have to tell it to use your USB memory as the home directory when you boot up ( knoppix home=/dev/sda1/knoppix.img ). If you forget to do this it boots autmatically using the RAM disk instead of your USB drive. It would be nice, actually, to rebuild the CD to make the memory device image file the default home directory, though it would not make a great deal of difference.
I also tried the Mandrake CD but couldn't get this to work. I think they really just want your money.
Knoppix is much more solid, IMO, though it is nice to look at all of these live CDs for ideas as to how to set up your "normal" HD installation.
Anyway, setting this up on KNOPPIX turned out to be a piece of cake and I have yet to get this to work on Mandrake.
How about "let me try it with all goodies included and I'll decide if I want to pay for support, maintenance, training or other professional services "? Is that not how "commercial" distros keep the biz rollin'?
If I don't pay I don't get the source for the goodies now do I?
HAD
Fear not the command line.
A shame Slashdot is overrun with "the rest of us." The second age has come to pass.
> No crashes, no dependancy problems, just the hassle of compiling everything
> before it'll work.
I've had some problems with it. Sometimes you can run into a situation where
a new version of some package conflicts with the old version in some way that
portage can't work out by itself, and so you have to manually unmerge the old
version first. (You don't find this out until your emerge fails, and then you
have to track down the issue.) Specifically, I ran into this problem twice
with certain important Perl modules. Since they're a dependency for virtually
everything, skipping over it is not an option.
I also had a really weird problem that may be fairly unusual, because I did
not find any useful information on the web about it and as yet have not
resolved it. I can't emerge coreutils, because during the compile it does
*something* it's not supposed to do and portage kills it off and issues a
sandbox error. This rather puts a damper on upgrading much of anything
else, let me tell you. I'm typing this right now on Mandrake (which is
installed on the other disk), because I don't want to deal with that issue
at the moment.
Oh, and this is possibly a coincidence, but I've had two hard drives die
while running Gentoo. I've run Mandrake for much longer (since 7.1) and
only had the same number of drives (2) go bad -- and they went much more
gradually, so that I was able to get my stuff off without much trouble.
Again, this is very likely a coincidence, but it makes it hard for me to
get as excited about Gentoo in practice as I'd like to be in theory.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
Wierd. I'm stuck at 97.4%, so I'm going to look around for other torrents or download sites. It just pisses me off that it hangs at 97.4%.
Right. Slashdotters at work with broadband get to download this distro for free, and expect every aspect of it to work as well as paying customers. Seems to me that someone has paid way to much for Microsoft products that they are trying to even up the score and get something as useful as MandrakeMove for free. Not fair to the people at Mandrake, who have to make a profit or go out of business. Then, everyone will just go somewhere else for their freebies. Apparently, Microsoft isn't going to give you anything for free, are they?
As an old dinosaur, more interested in vision science than operating systems, who has never used linux but has had various pdp11 unices, sunos 3.2 etc, osf/1, encore parallel unix and so on, I thought it might be fun to try mandrake move on my office win 2k laptop (dell latitude c600). Nice idea seeing what current linux was like with out too much effort.
It didn't work - failed to detect the display for X which it had been happily using to display its boot status...
Then I downloaded suse live eval which did...
Mandrake want to SELL this???
They're pretty darn expensive. ~$110 for 30GB.