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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 ;))
It runs from a CD. It moves around with you.
Move, mobile. One live CD (as in, no installation, boot and run from the CD). Can also be used as a harmless intro to linux for windows users, without altering thier computer, or a lengthy install.
...has been available for some time now.
(I wonder how that happened?)
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
I played with one of the pre-release versions of this and it'd mount the key (commonly called a USB thumb or pen drive), and seemed to offer a option durring boot to read configuration from the key. So I don't see why the download final version wouldn't do it.
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.