im using toronto for two or three years on a usb key with great satisfaction.

Recently i cant boot livecd persistent, i get a message /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit I/O error.

Is it possible to recover the loop?

I have important document i would like to recover.

Hope there is a way :)

sorry for my poor english :)

the wifi network with no issues. Great Job HighKing. tests all positive on the Acer Aspire One netbook.

able to figure out that the userid: live and password:live got me into the desktop but when i tried to change the password for my userid of wirechief i was not able to login using it, i had to revert back to username: live password live

i had to delete it and try again. that worked once i went back and deleted the user that i had created with adduser wirechief -p xxxxxpassord

all of this could of prevented if i had known originally that the user name was : live and password was live

[moved from Software by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)]

When I boot it in the laptop it asks for a root password at the bottom and when I give "boot" as instructed, I am told that it could not find the kernel and goes ahead and loads me as a "guest".

When I go to do anything that requires root privileges, nothing works as it will not accept "boot" as the answer to its needs.

If someone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. This system maybe dating itself a bit but it was so easy to install. :)

Thank you, Bill.

I'm using Pendrivelinux, but as far as I read, it is essentially the same as MCNLive, so I'm asking here. (Pendrivelinux has no forums, support channel or anything like that)

My stick is a normal FAT32 with a couple of Windoze programs on it, PortableFirefox among others. It saves its profile on the stick in a subfolder. I also have Pendrivelinux on it, which has its own Firefox. I now tried to symlink the Linux Firefox profile folder to the FirefoxPortable profile folder. This would probably work flawlessly, but under Linux, the user account cannot directly write to the mounted FAT32 stick and thus to the FirefoxPortable profile folder. Since it is FAT32, the permissions can't be changed.

So I tried remounting it with umask=000. No change. I tried uid=500 and gid=100 (refers to the 'guest' user and 'users' group), but the stick simply refuses to get mounted differently. All the files on it -ALWAYS- belong to root with the same permissions that prohibit users from writing on them. root himself has no problems with writing.

What's the matter here? Is the vfat kernel module or the mount command broken? Is there some special kind of vfat module that doesn't understand umask, uid or gid? Is there something intercepting the mount and mounting it differently? For the record, 'mount' shows the drive with mounted with -my- settings.

I understand that the risk of a user writing to the loopfile or squashfs file directly is big, but I am well aware of what I'm doing. Is this intentional? How do I fix it?

On a related note, are there other distributions that work similiar to this? (Exchangeable base squashfs image + persistent loopfile that work on top of a FAT32 stick)? I'm open to test other things :)

I'm very new to Linux and am loving it so far. The trouble is that I'm running Mandriva from a boot cd, therefore unable to save anything I set up. I want to make a Live USB but when I click on Create MCNLive USB it says there is no USB device available. I've tried all 4 of my usb ports and 2 other pen drives but I just can't get linux to see my usb ports.

Please help.

Mandie

I'm trying to play back some .AVI files from a Flip Video camera. Wheni open it up in either gxine or KMPlayer, i get a blue-gird like thing over (lots of little dots). Anyone have the same issue.

BTW = the same thing happens with other file formats; and it pretty much appears every time I open up one of these players.

Thanks!

I have a problem with internet using the MCNLive Toronto.

My modem is configured as to router (its a SpeedTouch V6). But when i use the USB MCNLive Toronto the system do not recognize my modem. (All lights of my modem light. But the light of "Ethernet" no).

So is impossible to configure the internet. The same problem happened with USB Pendrivelinux2008.

How can i resolve this problem?

Thanks.

PS.: Sorry for my poor english. i'm learning yet.

Is there a command to check free disk space in my loop file ?

Thank you,

ElGringo

Anyway, I'm using Pendrivelinux 2008 with persisten changes on a 4G iPod. I've installed lots of stuff, and now I only have like 50~40MB left. I want to remove apps, but their dependencies won't go away with them.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Tom

dd if=/dev/zero of=<location of mcnlive.loop file> bs=1M conv=notrunc count=1 seek=2500 (2.5 GB versus original 2.0 GB)

losetup /dev/loop1 <location of mcnlive.loop file>

e2fsck -f -y /dev/loop1 (some errors appear, but don't seem significant. Use -y to automatic fix errors)

resize2fs /dev/loop1

e2fsck -f /dev/loop1 (no further errors appear)

losetup -d /dev/loop1

Check of mcnlive.loop file with du -sh mcnlive.loop shows new size in place. Use of

mkdir -p testdir

mount -o loop <location of mcnlive.loop file> testdir

and same with original backed up mcnlive.loop file in same above manner to different mount directory, but find contents of both appearing to be the same (all files, ownership, and permissions same).

Booting up in persistent mode with newly increased mcnlive.loop file doesn't seem to work as I am booting into non-persistence mode. Copying backup mcnlive.loop file back into place and booting up persistence mode is fine with all changes in place.

As a further test, with newly increased mcnlive.loop file mounted and the original backup file mounted in differnet mount directory, removed all contents from large mcnlive.loop file and used:

cp -av /path/to/originalbackupfile/* /path/to/increasedmcnliveloopdir/

After all files copied and checked, umounted both and attempted to reboot into persistence mode (again with no success).

After above, found /usr/local/bin/mkmcnlive-loop script, but I believe same will develop after reading through script.

While it seems possible to increase size, is there any way to ensure changes made previously are retained or to copy all changes back over so that the newly increased mcnlive.loop file will boot up in persistent mode with changes retained?

Thank You

I'm new to the forum and need help configuring the intel drivers on my aspire laptop.

I'm running MCN Live 2007.1 on a USB Microvault. Everything woks as expected except the resolution.

Apon first running the resolution wizard it asked me if I wanted to use the 915 drivers and I said yes.

The resolution could now be changed to 12x8. Great I thought. I shutdown the session and rebooted into it today

and I'm back to 12x7 and It wont allow me to change it. I tried specifying different drivers and configurations in Harddrake

and I end up with a mirrored version of my screen and a rainbow of colors under the taksbar panel.

My video card is an Intel 945GM and I would appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance.

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I installed MCN Live to a USB drive. To make changes (like adding a printer which I didn't do before remastering), I used the boot code "livecd persist" and made the changes. From what I read, those changes are saved in the mcnlive.loop file.

If I want to make those changes permanent (so I don't have to use the "livecd persist" boot code), I think I have to recreate the persistent loop (MCN Live Menu --> "create persistent loop"). When I do this I get the error "start the live system without the boot code 'live persist.'"

If I restart on a normal boot, my changes from the "live persist" session are gone. So they're not there for me to create the persistent loop. If I make the changes again at this stage and then "create persistent loop" the process is successful but my changes are not there when I reboot normally. And if I reboot with the "livecd persist" boot code my changes are also gone - in effect I've gone back to the system I installed with the remastered CD.

However, I find that if I make changes in the "livecd persist" boot code, I can get back to them only if I boot with the "livecd persist" boot code.

So my question - how do I make the changes to the USB drive permanent so I don't have to use the "livecd persist" boot code all the time? What am I missing?

Paul

I have started looking at pendrivelinux (which appears to be basically mcnl 2007.1 refaced) and PCLOS 2008 minime

and I see your name in both remaster scripts

however, the scripts are , obviously, not interchangable

maybe you can answer a few questons i've always wondered.

1) Why the change from zenity to kdialogs?

2) is PCLOS 2008 actually closer to 2008 than 2007.1?

I note a newer Kernal, but lipstick on a pig still makes it a pig the question gets asked in the PCLOS forum a lot but i've never seen a clear answer

i really am trying to learn for my class, so anything you can point me to i'm eager to learn.

i have found some base info on zenity and kdialogs, i just havent had the chance to go through it all.

thanks

j

It's being billed as the first GREEN pc, apparently it uses a VIA chipset/cpu, has NO internal storage other than 4gb or ram, and the OS (i think its gentoo),

it has 6 USB ports as well as RJ45 and mouse/keyb etc.

BUT since the via is a low power setup, NO FAN is required, making it ultra quiet. and it uses 25 or 75 watts? I cant rememebr

MY thought is that this would make a STELLER MCNL candidate.

Imagine, at THAT size with that little power, you could put that bad boy under the front seat of your car, plug into your portable dvd screen, plug in a portable 60GB had and BOOM an instant CAR pc!

now I just need to "find" an extra $250 to try one.

the deal is that its $99 plus $13-20 a month, for THEIR online storage solution.

or $250 to buy one outright.

if anyone knows of anywhere ELSE that these things (w/o the OS in ROM) can be bought PLEASE let me know.

and if you can think of other MCNL applications......

How do I change the user accounts in MCNLive? Basically I would like to remove the guest account, disable the automatic login and create my own user account. I can do most of this through the Mandriva configure your PC option, however after removing the guest account I get an error when I startup MCN the next time, probably because it is trying to automatically load the guest account which no longer exists. When I try to adjust the automatic login via the mandriva system option, I get the error that there is no bootloader installed, probably because it is running via usb and there is no bootloader on the HDD. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

When I boot, it gets through a number of system checks but when it tries to boot the OS, it fails to mount the loop file and drops me to a limited shell.

I've tried "safeboot" and other cheat codes and they don't work. I've checked the md5 sum to make sure the cd version was fine. I checked my system BIOS. I'm open to any and all suggestions.

I've successfully tried other distos on USB. Slax and Puppy Linux boot fine. PCLinuxOS minime gave me the same loop file problem and wouldn't boot. I'm thinking it has something to do with Mandriva now.

Thanks for your help.

-Rob

First at all - sorry for my english, it's the first time i write on english-speaking forums.

I use MCNLive Toronto on USB flash in persistent mode, loop file is 2Gb.

Last time i have an error when shutdown/reboot system like this:

it repeats some times about loop1 than about loop0, after all unmount does and system restarts.

What is this? I can't understand if problem is an attempt to unmount a loop while some process read/write to it or, really, problem is in permissions? But /etc/rc6.d/S01reboot is a symlink to /etc/init.d/halt which is executed under root, isn't it?

Maybe some people had the same problem and have a solution?

UPD: Sorry, no one has a similar problem or my english is too bad?

I've tested my MCNLive USB on my college's computer, with the "persistent mode" activated, but I've realized that every time that the system boots, it is possibly created a kind of "history file" containing a hardware list of the specific computer.

I concluded this because, when I came back home, I ran MCNLive on my own pc and the system tried to find a network card of my college's computer. Then, it was showed a "[FAILED]" message on the boot screen. Although this error appears, the system could start normally.

The problem is because that message is showed every time I initialize MCNLive. I wanna know how to avoid this and have a true portable Linux. Does anybody have a solution?

Regards.

Does anyone know if it is safe to delete any of these modules to save some precious ram.

Can I delete the one`s with a "Used by" 0 as seen below?

thanks very much

Module				  Size  Used by
iptable_raw			 2368  0 
xt_policy			   4224  2 
xt_multiport			3776  4 
ipt_ULOG				7044  0 
ipt_TTL				 2624  0 
ipt_ttl				 2336  0 
ipt_TOS				 2560  0 
ipt_tos				 2144  0 
ipt_TCPMSS			  4160  0 
ipt_set				 2880  0 
ipt_SAME				2848  0 
ipt_REJECT			  5024  4 
ipt_REDIRECT			2720  0 
ipt_recent			 10028  0 
ipt_owner			   2432  0 
ipt_NETMAP			  2624  0 
ipt_MASQUERADE		  3808  0 
ipt_LOG				 7072  10 
ipt_iprange			 2336  0 
ipt_hashlimit		   7976  0 
ipt_ECN				 3296  0 
ipt_ecn				 2624  0 
ipt_DSCP				2560  0 
ipt_dscp				2176  0 
ipt_CLUSTERIP		   7460  0 
ipt_ah				  2368  0 
ipt_addrtype			2304  0 
ip_set_portmap		  4800  0 
ip_set_macipmap		 4740  0 
ip_set_ipmap			4768  0 
ip_set_iphash		   7780  0 
ip_set				 18972  9 ipt_set,ip_set_portmap,ip_set_macipmap,ip_set_ipmap,ip_set_iphash
ip_nat_tftp			 2144  0 
ip_nat_snmp_basic	   9604  0 
ip_nat_sip			  4064  0 
ip_nat_pptp			 5444  0 
ip_nat_irc			  2784  0 
ip_nat_h323			 6304  0 
ip_nat_ftp			  3520  0 
ip_nat_amanda		   2464  0 
ip_conntrack_tftp	   3960  1 ip_nat_tftp
ip_conntrack_sip		6704  1 ip_nat_sip
ip_conntrack_pptp	   9968  1 ip_nat_pptp
ip_conntrack_netbios_ns	 3008  0 
ip_conntrack_irc		5840  1 ip_nat_irc
ip_conntrack_h323	  45820  1 ip_nat_h323
ip_conntrack_ftp		6800  1 ip_nat_ftp
ip_conntrack_amanda	 4072  1 ip_nat_amanda
xt_tcpmss			   2688  0 
xt_pkttype			  2368  4 
xt_physdev			  2896  0 
xt_NFQUEUE			  2528  0 
xt_MARK				 2848  0 
xt_mark				 2400  0 
xt_mac				  2432  0 
xt_limit				2944  0 
xt_length			   2496  0 
xt_helper			   2720  0 
xt_dccp				 3652  0 
xt_conntrack			2848  0 
xt_CONNMARK			 2784  0 
xt_connmark			 2496  0 
xt_CLASSIFY			 2368  0 
xt_tcpudp			   3648  11 
xt_state				2560  6 
iptable_nat			 7492  0 
ip_nat				 15468  12 ipt_SAME,ipt_REDIRECT,ipt_NETMAP,ipt_MASQUERADE,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_sip,ip_nat_pp
tp,ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_h323,ip_nat_ftp,ip_nat_amanda,iptable_nat
ip_conntrack		   48160  24 ipt_MASQUERADE,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_snmp_basic,ip_nat_sip,ip_nat_pptp,ip_nat_irc,i
p_nat_h323,ip_nat_ftp,ip_nat_amanda,ip_conntrack_tftp,ip_conntrack_sip,ip_conntra
ck_pptp,ip_conntrack_netbios_ns,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_h323,ip_conntrack_
ftp,ip_conntrack_amanda,xt_helper,xt_conntrack,xt_CONNMARK,xt_connmark,xt_state,
iptable_nat,ip_nat
iptable_mangle		  2976  1 
nfnetlink			   5752  2 ip_nat,ip_conntrack
iptable_filter		  3104  1 
ip_tables			  12580  4 iptable_raw,iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter
x_tables			   11940  45 xt_policy,xt_multiport,ipt_ULOG,ipt_TTL,ipt_ttl,ipt_TOS,ipt_tos,ipt_TCPMSS,ipt_s
et,ipt_SAME,ipt_REJECT,ipt_REDIRECT,ipt_recent,ipt_owner,ipt_NETMAP,ipt_MASQUERAD
E,ipt_LOG,ipt_iprange,ipt_hashlimit,ipt_ECN,ipt_ecn,ipt_DSCP,ipt_dscp,ipt_CLUSTER
IP,ipt_ah,ipt_addrtype,xt_tcpmss,xt_pkttype,xt_physdev,xt_NFQUEUE,xt_MARK,xt_mar
k,xt_mac,xt_limit,xt_length,xt_helper,xt_dccp,xt_conntrack,xt_CONNMARK,xt_connmar
k,xt_CLASSIFY,xt_tcpudp,xt_state,iptable_nat,ip_tables
8139too				22688  0 
mii					 5568  1 8139too
af_packet			  17768  2 
ipv6				  237088  10 
binfmt_misc			 9704  1 
ide_generic			 1824  0 [permanent]
cpufreq_ondemand		6956  0 
cpufreq_conservative	 6920  0 
cpufreq_powersave	   2272  0 
freq_table			  4704  0 
processor			  21256  0 
usbmouse				5024  0 
evdev				   8672  0 
tsdev				   6880  0 
usbkbd				  6464  0 
usbhid				 50272  0 
dm_mirror			  18960  0 
dm_mod				 49560  1 dm_mirror
unionfs			   300776  1 
squashfs			   43044  1 
ide_cs				  8896  0 
yenta_socket		   24076  0 
rsrc_nonstatic		 11616  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia				 31756  1 ide_cs
pcmcia_core			34388  4 ide_cs,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic,pcmcia
3w_xxxx				24960  0 
sx8					16172  0 
tmscsim				21120  0 
sata_vsc				6468  0 
sata_via				6500  0 
sata_uli				5348  0 
sata_sx4			   11972  0 
sata_svw				6180  0 
sata_sis				7204  0 
sata_sil				7624  0 
sata_qstor			  7908  0 
sata_promise			9604  0 
sata_nv				 7812  0 
BusLogic			   69716  0 
aic7xxx			   176276  0 
ahci				   16100  0 
usb_storage			88612  1 
ehci_hcd			   28904  0 
ohci_hcd			   18820  0 
uhci_hcd			   20912  0 
usbcore			   112960  8 usbmouse,usbkbd,usbhid,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd
mptbase				47168  0 
scsi_transport_spi	 22368  1 aic7xxx
sd_mod				 18432  2 
sg					 30584  0 
ata_piix			   10884  0 
libata				 60748  12 sata_vsc,sata_via,sata_uli,sata_sx4,sata_svw,sata_sis,sata_sil,sata_qstor,sata_p
romise,sata_nv,ahci,ata_piix
sr_mod				 15332  0 
scsi_mod			  118824  11 3w_xxxx,tmscsim,BusLogic,aic7xxx,ahci,usb_storage,scsi_transport_spi,sd_mod,sg,l
ibata,sr_mod
loop				   15208  4 
ide_cd				 35616  0 
isofs				  32284  0 
nls_utf8				2496  0 
ntfs				  267228  0 
vfat				   10944  1 
msdos				   8480  0 
fat					47356  2 vfat,msdos
reiserfs			  255492  0 
ext3				  125928  0 
jbd					51220  1 ext3
nls_cp437			   6304  1 
nls_iso8859_2		   5216  0 
nls_iso8859_1		   4672  1

Did a shieldsup test and the default install left all ports open, so this test failed

big time.

Ok, i`m assuming that Delft needs a fat32 partition to allow it to boot, so as this is

a windows based partition does this not allow malicious code to run and infect the

OS as it does in Windows?

Is it possible for the Delft OS to access and write / save to a EXT2 partition on the

same usb stick for the added security that Linux offers( file permissions ect )

Any MCNLive security related links anyone knows of would be very much appreciated.

joomy

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For first sorry for my english ;)

I have problem with USB instalation.

I download MCNLive Toronto,burn it to the CD,boot from this CD without USB Stick,put the USB Stick,run root console and

type fdisk -l

The USB is mounted as Sdb1 and is bootable (FAT32)

Then i run the live stick wizard and everything goes ok to the end.

Then i reboot from USB.

Everything runs ok until this meesage appears:

..................couldnt read uniofs.ko ......................

and then system stop and give me a basic (i thing called ASH) shell.

I change the boot parameters but the output is still the same.

I know that the USB is ok because before i boot from she SLAX and without problems.

Iam a begginer so anybody can help me please?

I use a 4G USBKEY, MCNlive on 1GB and mcnlive.loop on 500 MB. All work very well but now, how can increase the size of mcnlive.loop ? it is full ! 500MB is too little.

Thank for your excellent job ! ;)

KM2cde34

[moved from Forum Discussion by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)]

first, i must apologise, but i'm a strict absolute beginner in linux world, and my english is'nt better :unsure: .

I was pleased to find mcnlive delft, that works perfectly if i boot on cd but i wasn't able to générate a mcnlive usb key. I got this message:

"error : problem installing bootloader : /dev/sdb1 : no such file or directory " :mellow:

many thanks for your help.

I tried to make the MCNLive (on USB) boot from RAM and has NTFS read-write and keep all the changes I made.

I change the boot option to

lable copy2ram persist ntfsrw

menu label Boot with all

kernel vmlinuz

append livecd=livecd initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/3 vga=788 keyb=us splash=verbose copy2ram persist ntfsrw fromusb

But it seems not work :(

What should I?

Thanks in advance.

using the instructions at pendrive linux on how to load PDL under windows, i figured maybe you could just change the name of the ISO and sone of a gun, it was THAT simple!

now if only 2008 was that simple........................

I am a brand newbie to Linux. I have downloaded Mandriva Toronto. I have burned the image to a CD and I intend to setup a USB flash boot.

My question. I do not want my hard drive to get written to under any circumstances. I have it set up running Windows and I don't want to damage the installation and would be most .

comfortable knowing that Linux will not write (even as scratch pad) to my Hard drive.

Is the normal default operation for Toronto running off of a CD or USB flash to not write to the HD? There are several options when i first put in the CD and this is not the same as the Mandriva version I tried yesterday. What options, if any, allow this version of Linux to write to the hard drive? (Knowing this will enable me to avoid these options)

Just to be clear I do not want anything written to my Hd. At least not until I understand things more.

Thank you

I have tried editing the fstab of the system when running from USB, but i noticed each time i reboot, the fstab is overwritten (autogenerated by HWDetect?).

Is there any way to change this? do i have to reconfigure HWdetect and reroll another image?

Thanks.

I would like to install

this one,

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/02/18/pe...all-from-linux/

to my usb flashdrive,

however , does it use the latest NTFS-3g driver ?

It would be used to get the data from crashed windows computers, in the past I tried this

before but always ran into the problem of "unclean" ntfs drives....

I also had problems with computers with ati cards (x800) , just would not work on them.

Greetings from .be

when pluging up a USB or puting a cd in I get the eror

Cannot create link /etc/mtab~ Perhaps there is a stale lock file?

humm the cd just mounted the 2'ed time (not usb) but now I get this when trying to unmount.

umount: /media/cdrom is not mounted (according to mtab)

and hears 1 more querk I ejected the cd manualey and placed a diferent cd in the tray. The cd was acsesabl but the name of the cd stays with the preveus cd?????????????? that is the name of the cd icon in Konqueror!!!

eney Ideas??

VINNY

I am new to MCNLive and though I love it out of the box I still would like to make some changes. The problem I am seeing is after I remove a package, it is actually making the image larger. I am using the package manager to configure the packages and if I select a package, it shows the size of the files down at the bottom.

Selected: 0B / Free Disk Space: 600MB

So when I select say Filezilla. it shows "Selected: 11MB" and drops the disk space by 11MB. But if I select a package to remove, I get the exact same thing and instead of freeing up disk space, removing packages actually USES disk space. So no matter if I add or remove packages, it eats up space.

Another thing I noticed is that after I remove a package, I can still launch it from the menu. I wanted to remove all Koffice programs and add OOO instead. It went through the motions of removing everything but I noticed the icons were still listed in the main menu. Of course my curious nature got the best of me so I tried it and Boom!, Kword opened without a hitch even after I removed it.

So I was just wondering if these were just anomalies since everything is in RAM atm and will be fixed once I start the remaster process, or am I doing something wrong? Any guidance would be most appreciated.

Many Thanks,

Akovia

I just have discovered and installed MCN Live Toronto on my computer. It works quite well - but there is only one problem, which I couldn't resolve with my little Linux knowledge.

Starting the system with the live-Cd MCN finds all other harddisks (hda1,5+6/hdb1,5+6 with Windows). After having installed it on harddisk it only recognizes its own linux-partition (hdb7+8), but not the other partitions. I have had a look into the fstab-file and in fact there are no other partitions. Then I changed the fstab as root, adding the other hda and hdb infos by hand - but MCN still didn't accept or show the other partitions. Next I've copied the fstab-file from the live-installation (which shows all partitions), and integrated it into the harddisk installation, but MCN didn't accept it either .

Does anyone has an idea how I could convince MCN to get contact to the other partitions? Thanks in advance...

tiorba

very cool, maybe with this getting to more folks the 2008 update will have more folks involved!

I have installed MCNLive Delft on a Flash Drive USB key, it run very well.

I have created a mcnlive.loop and I use "livecd persist" at boot.

All the changes (keyboard, lan, ...) are saved, but not the "xorg.conf" ???

I dont't undersand !

Thanks for your help (sorry for my english )

doudy

I am a totally newbie in using Linux. I am very very happy with using MCNLive Toronto on a 4Gb USB and a laptop Dell D620.

I received recently a new Dell D630 laptop which includes the new Intel Mobile Platform Santa Rosa : GM965 with the GMA X3100. Unfortunately, Toronto/MDV 2007.1 appears not to include the latest Intel drivers for that platform. As a result, with the generic vesa driver, I don't manage to get a better screen resolution thant 1024x768 despite the fact that the panel can display in 1280x800.

As I read that Chris needs at the very least a big break (Thank you so much, Chris, for the tremendous work on MCNLive :D ) so that the next MCNLive based on MDV 2008 won't be released before a while, I am looking for an easy way to add the latest Intel drivers for Santa Rosa to my Toronto.

Can anybody help on that ?

Happy new year

Kangoo

I looked at various options and settled on the live-cd as a means of presenting this data. But found that what was available didn't suit my requirements. In my search for solutions, I came across MCNLive and, although it didn't have any of the applications I needed for my particular purposes, it was the perfect base on which to build what I needed.

After trying to (unsuccessfully) get the Apache server working properly, I switched tactics and went for a 3rd party solution with XAMPP. This solved my problem and allowed me to continue to create what I needed.

I have to give full credit to chris b. for her work on these scripts and I also acknowledge bookie and mindwave for their work in getting the scripts to work from an installed Mandriva Linux (yes bookie, I was wrong, those notes you sent turned out to be very helpful after all ;) ).

So, in the true spirit of the open source community, I present Fido-X Web, a totally new live web server/development environment combining Mandriva Linux, XAMPP and MCNLive scripts.

This is still under development, and the documentation is incomplete (I'm still writing it) but, it works! I'm making it available so that I can continue to develop this project.

You can get it at http://www.fido-x.net/.

Let me know what you think of it. Let me know what it needs. Available in English only, but other languages could probably be included in a later release.

Regards, Phydeaux.

Also, the volume control in Kmix has stopped working - can't switch sound off even 'tho the tray icon says it's muted!

This is all happening in Toronto distro.

the idea being that when (not if) I blow the system up i just pop in the dvd, reboot, reinstall to HD and away we go.

for 2007.1 this has worked AMAZINGly well.

the OTHER idea, was that when i upgraded my hardware (which i do about once a year or so, i could just pop the dvd into the new pc and reinstall to the HD and away we go.

well this weekend I went from an intel duo core 3.4GHZ system to and AMD x2 5.6GHZ system with a gigabit lan and a PCI-E 256MB vid card plus 4GB of ram.

bought a new 500gb hd, slapped it in, put my dvd in, that I had JUST created on my old system,booted up created a 60GB "/" partition and ran the HD install script.

Everything went well (if not a little faster!) went to reboot, and got a kernel panic stop.

So I started over, tried again, no go.

It APPEARS to me anyway, that the HW differences between my old intel duo core setup, and my new AMD setup if FAR to different to support a proper HD install.

So I did my minimal 2007.1 install (still DF’s to 3.2 GB) and will start to rebuild from my own process (http://www.thehess.org/Rollyourown1.html)

This may be self evident to a lot of folks, I just think that ots interesting that the live DVD works and runs AMAZINGLY quick, but that I couldn’t use THAT to do a HD install.

Oh well something else for the informationals.

J

But no problem in the end for me. I am currently using MCNLIve "Delft" running from a USB drive (A nice arrangement, and I am looking forward to trying out the "Toronto" distro, as well as other Mandriva versions, soon.) The USB adapter was easily installed by using the ndiswrapper selection in the Mandriva Control Center, and selecting the Windows 98 driver after mounting the CD that came with the adapter. I haven't tried the other drivers, but a previous Internet search suggested the Win98 drivers as best. The rest of the install went very smoothly, and I was on the Net within a few minutes. My router is already set up for WPA, and this was all set up pretty automatically. I didn't need to enter any IP address, etc...

First impressions: the signal strength indicator shows a very low signal strength, but I usually get a strong signal using WinXP and this device. It doesn't seem to affect the connection, so maybe it's not correct. The device gets warm, but it seems to be OK. I believe the same basic USB adapter is available branded under other names and it is inexpensive.

After spending many evenings trying to get my realtek 8185 PCI card to run under Linux, the ENUWI-G2 was very easy with MCNLive. I suspect it wouid be OK with other Mandriva derived distros. Good Luck!

Next challenge: the Realtek 8185 card. Here I suspect that the supplied drivers are the real issue, the Windows XP ones won't load in ndiswrapper and the built-in R8180 drivers don't work, either.

that's all for now

sg

[moved from Networking by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)]

Not possible to save to file:///mnt/win_d/testfile

I created a folder on the USB by logging in as root using Konqueror with these commands

xhost +

su -

konqueror &

but I couldn't give "guest" permissions after creating the folder. Obviously something I am doing wrong and could use your help.

BigDez

While there are many live distros that have some of the software I need, there appear to be none that have all the software that I need (MCNLive is no exception), so I decided to create my own. I do understand that MCNLive is intended to be a desktop system, but any Linux can be converted to a server. I chose MCNLive because it looks great and includes the necessary tools to create a live cd.

I've been playing about with this for over a week now with no success. I first installed MCNLive Toronto to my hard disk so that I can install the necessary software. This is where the problems started. First was the "broken pipe" and "segmentation fault" while creating the initrd.gz file (a minor issue that doesn't affect the build - easily resolved by stating "--splash=no" on the command line). The second problem (which caused the build process to fail) was in creating the compressed filesystem, the cause of this problem is the fact that the kernel installed by the live-install process does NOT support the squashfs filesystem, while the kernel on the live cd does provide support for this filesystem.

So, my question is - How to I create a live cd from my installed system?

Thanks for any help (in advance).

Regards, Phydeaux.

However, I'm a total newbie and I will probably need simple tips on how to change some desktop and hardware settings. Hope someone here can help. I'll play a bit more with the install I have and then probably get back to this forum.

cheers

I restarted with ICEWM and found that higher resolutions seem to work. Went back to KDE and the higher resolution seems to have carried over.

What is happening? I need very simple newbie level feedback.

Thanks.

First let me apologize to you all as I am a certified Linux n00b. I am not, however, an idiot, I am simply (mostly) ignorant to the ways of Linux.

That being said, I would like to say I LOVE MCNLive, and I am (as are others) anxiously awaiting the release of MCNLive based on Mandriva 2008.

SO here're my problems:

I have succesfully burned Toronto and installed it to my USB flash drive. I am running off of it right now, in fact. I am running on a work-issued Thinkpad T60. But two problems are causing me much annoyance:

1. I can't adjust resolution! When I go to Display settings (by right-clicking the desktop and selection "Configure Desktop...", my only options are 800x600 or 640x480. As you can imagine this is very bothersome. So I loooked around and found various suggestions to modify the xorg.conf file. Here is the section that seems to be controlling possible resolutions, and it seems that I should have the option of 1024x768 regardless of color depth (in fact, I haven't been able to figure out where to find the color depth settings).

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier "monitor1"
   VendorName "Generic"
   ModelName "Flat Panel 1024x768"
   HorizSync 31.5-55
   VertRefresh 40-70

   # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
   # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
   ModeLine "768x576"     50.00  768  832  846 1000   576  590  595  630

   # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
   ModeLine "768x576"     63.07  768  800  960 1024   576  578  590  616
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier "device1"
   VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
   BoardName "ATI Radeon X1300 - X1950"
   Driver "fbdev"
   Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "screen1"
   Device "device1"
   Monitor "monitor1"
   DefaultColorDepth 16

   Subsection "Display"
       Depth 8
       Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubsection

   Subsection "Display"
       Depth 15
       Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubsection

   Subsection "Display"
       Depth 16
       Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubsection

   Subsection "Display"
       Depth 24
       Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubsection
EndSection

When I look at MCC hardware, it correctly identifies my graphics card as the Radeon Mobility X1400, so why doesn't show supported resolutions in the GUI?? And in this, when I adjust video card settings, it shows the resolution as 1024x768 16bpp. Why are there are two (different) resolutions shown?? And why would it say the

2. This may be related, but 3D Desktop Effects are disabled. This is a relatively minor item, but I did try out Mandriva 2008 One LiveCD and it worked beautifully (resolution was higher, 3D effects worked, etc). I actually *really* liked the Metisse effects too...

Also, when I make changes to the settings, it seems like they are not in effect when I reboot! I thought that since this was running from USB flash, that you would be able to maintain a customized setup?

I apologize for all the newbie questions, but I have searched through the forums and I couldn't find anything that really helped...

Thanks (in advance) for your help and I really appreciate the work you've put into making the MCNLive distro!!

-Steve