[pskmail] Re: Hang with Live CD
- From: Rein Couperus <rein@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:34:21 +0100
UBUNTU = Debian... maybe XUBUNTU should have a smaller footprint... KDE and
Gnome take their toll...
For the DebianDxpeditionDisk I used Morphix, which is based on Knoppix.
They have a version using a lite window manager (I think it wa IceWM.
(By the way, UBUNTU also uses the Knoppix hardware detection mechanism).
If needs be we good even go back to twm as a window manager as a last resort...
But what can you use a computer with 128M for these days? WIN95, WIN98 and
WIN2k are not supported any more, and XP is severely crippled in 128MB.
I guess it would be fair to request at least 256MB... a 256MB DIM costs $32.
Rein EA/PA0R/P
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Gesendet: 24.01.07 05:00:56
> An: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff: [pskmail] Re: Hang with Live CD
>
> Something inside me says UBUNTU, Debian or puppylinux. No other reasons
> except
> to keep it small and think of how many may someday soon be running ti on a
> MIT
> Computer.
>
> 73,
>
> Walt/K5YFW
>
> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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