[pskmail] Re: Hang with Live CD

  • From: Lawrence Levesque <ka1vgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:24:53 -0500

I love DSL Linux... That would be great!
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 10:25 +0100, Per Crusefalk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You are absolutely correct Rein, it needs at least 256 Megs.
> Perhaps its time to change the base distro, someone suggested puppylinux
> and others knoppix. Mandriva is very nice but the tools needed to create a
> live distro is somewhat shaky. Mandrivas own tool, draklive, is almost
> undocumented but seems to work fine. MCNlive/mklivecd is what I use now
> and its well documented and works but you have to use that magic handshake
> and create the distro from a certain version.
> What demands are there for a live distro ? What would you like to see ?
> 
> 73 de Per, sm0rwo
> 
> P.s. Rein, you are correct that I should be travelling. I'll be flying on
> Thursday and a couple of times in February & March. I am working with HMS
> Gävle in the UNIFIL force and dates change rapidly:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIFIL
> 
> > Bruce, I am sure Per will want to anwer this, but I know he is traveling
> > at the moment...
> >
> > To me it looks like you ain't got enough memory. The KDE desktop of
> > Mandriva, which the CD is based on, needs at least 256 MB to run, and it
> > feels happy with 512MB...
> >
> > Remember, with a live CD the whole Linux stuff is running inside the RAM
> > memory of the computer.
> > No disk for swapping etc.
> >
> > If I remember correctly Knoppix was using a lite window manager....
> > Maybe something we have to consider for further devt of the live CD...
> > But 128 MB won't get you very far!!
> >
> > You could try running the live CD on some other machine with more RAM, it
> > won't hurt as it does not touch the hard drive...
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Rein EA/PA0R/P
> >
> >
> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> >> Von: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Gesendet: 23.01.07 04:50:20
> >> An: Pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Betreff: [pskmail] Hang with Live CD
> >
> > Hello,
> >>
> >> I checked the archives and didn't see this adressed:
> >>
> >>
> >> I have the latest (January) PSKMail live CD which starts to boot on my
> >> PC (1+GHz Pentium + 128MB memory)
> >>
> >>
> >> The front end of the boot process doesn't have any error messages that I
> >> saw. However, I get a long delay when this line starts:
> >>
> >>
> >>  - mounting loop image on  /initrd/loopfs -
> >>
> >> Then the following error messages pop up:
> >>
> >>
> >> ============================
> >>
> >> failed:invalid argument
> >>
> >>
> >> commands were:
> >>
> >> losetup /dev/loop0
> >> initrd/cdrom/livecd.sqfs
> >>
> >> mount -r -t squashfs /dev/loop0
> >>
> >> initrd/loopfs
> >>
> >>
> >> drop to limited shell
> >>
> >> ==========================
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm not overly Linux savvy, so all help is appreciated.
> >>
> >>
> >> I have successfully run the Live CD (Knoppix) from AI9NL (Harv's
> >> Hamshack) on the computer.
> >>
> >>
> >> tnx es 73
> >>
> >> Bruce
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > http://pa0r.blogspirit.com
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Larry Levesque
KA1VGM
Cheshire County EC
NHARES


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