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