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  1. With MCNLive you basically have two choices to build your own live system --> a new live iso file. 1. You don't install anything to your harddisk. We call it: remaster-on-the fly. You just start MCNLive, now you are running a live system in RAM. You can work on this system the same way as on an installed system. You can change settings, look&feel, you can install programs (with rpmdrake, MCC), you can uninstall programs etc. Watch out that you need enough RAM to do this. So, you better start with small additions. When you are done, you start a small graphical wizard, answer some questions, and it will build a new iso image of your 'running' system. The result is a stored iso file on your internal harddisk, that you can burn. You have your own live iso now. The computer needs enough RAM (at least 512 MB) and a HD with either an NTFS partition or an ext3 linux partition, to store the file. You can find a howto on the running MCNLive when you open a browser. 2. You can install MCNLive on your harddisk (on one / partition, and use a swap), boot the system, make all changes you want, and you run a command in a terminal to build your own live iso. More info here: www.mcnlive.org/howto_en.htm. And in the howto pages on MCNLive. And here a screenshot: www.mcnlive.org/delft/delft6.jpg. And the homepage of MCNLive: www.mcnlive.org/index.html.
  2. bookie, I certainly can help you, but we are here in the wrong forum section. May I ask you again to open a new topic? Just copy and paste your questions. It is very easy to make your own live cd, based on MCNLive. I will answer your questions in the new topic. :-)
  3. Hi bookie, welcome! I think that you want something else than what MCNLive is about. You want to create a new Powerpack DVD with the updated packages included, yes? That would be an installation distro DVD. And I have no idea how to do this. You need to be real expert to do this, I guess. A Live CD is something completely different. Do you know how to burn an iso? ----------> May I ask you to open a new topic here: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showforum=54
  4. What is so hard to check every directory? Also, first you said that you had no old .iso. Now you say that you deleted an old iso! Btw, you did not copy & paste the command, you typed. It was the wrong command. Your problem has nothing to do with 'uninstalling' things. But more with: you forget what you are doing. :P I think that now you have enough tips how to find where your stuff is. Empty trash, delete old stuff etc. Good luck!
  5. Try this: ls -alSh /home/mindwavex Copy & paste, don't type. If you see core* files, you have a problem.
  6. He compiled his own kernel, not a Mandriva kernel. That's why.
  7. Did you use the menu item: Create Live USB? Did you get any errors? Please do the following. Start the Live CD - without plugged usb stick. Wait until you are in KDE. Plugin the stick. Wait two seconds. Open a terminal. And type: su fdisk -l Post the output here. Copy & paste, don't type it, please. PS: you can't "write the iso to the device" - or, I don't understand what you mean. It does not matter on which computer you setup the usb stick.
  8. Here is your problem: [root@localhost mindwavex]# du -s /home/mindwavex 2.4G /home/mindwavex [root@localhost mindwavex]# 2.4 GB in your home directory. Happy hunting where you stored what :-) 100 MB in /var is pretty normal. And this : /dev/sda6 /usr3 ext3 defaults 1 2 could be your problem when building a live iso. Harddisks are usually mounted in a sub dir of /mnt ... and then they are excluded by default when running mklivecd. Your unusual mountpoint includes everything on this partition.
  9. Re-installing over and over again won't get you a solution. You need to find what is going on, or what you are doing exactly. Also, you never answer any questions here. The only way to find out is that you learn how to provide information. Give the output of: cat /etc/fstab here. Post it HERE. Include your command that you type!! Give the output of: du -s /home/username where username is your useraccount. Post it HERE. Include your command that you type!! Give the output of: su du -s /tmp Post it HERE. Include your command that you type!! Give the output of: su du -s /var Post it HERE. Include your command that you type!! Give the output of: su du -s /root Post it HERE. Include your command that you type!!
  10. How do you uninstall? How do you delete stuff? Is it still in the trash? Do you work as root? If you have a vbox disk image, it is not enough to "detach' it inside the VirtualBox program, you need to "delete" it manually, from within the dir where you created it. And use the command line, not graphically. "it seems ..." " it appears as ..." ... is not very specific. You need to give the EXACT output of: df
  11. And in case you have created a vbox image, a virtual disk image, start Virtual Box, go to: File --> Virtual Disk manager, and delete this big image. You may want to corntrol, where you created the vdisk, most likely in in the invisible /home/user/.VirtualBox --> look at the sub dirs.
  12. Failed builts are in /tmp/mklivecd.XXX Delete them all. And you sure have some old isos, somewhere. When you work as a user they are in your /home/user directory. Unless you opened a terminal in a different directory.
  13. 11 GB ? Wow. These can't be installed applications. 11 GB is too much to build a live dvd. The compression rate is 35 - 40 %. Your final iso is just too big. Check your installation, old isos lying around, or video files or music files. Clean the stuff. You should never start a mklivecd build command without performing a df on the target system.
  14. What has virtualbox to do with building an iso? You don't have enough space for building a dvd iso or the size is too big or something like that. I can't help with building these huge images. I always try to build live isos as small as possible. :D If you see error messages, please provide the 'full' build command that you use. Also the output of df.
  15. That's fine. Just send it to: mcnlive AT googlemail DOT com Or post the text here if it is not too large.
  16. Yeah, you missed this: Step by step: Step one: su urpmi draklive-install This will install the original MDV draklive-install script. And all the dependencies. This script won't work on MCNLive. That's why: Step two: Copy as root from Toronto the single file draklive-install (it is in /usr/sbin) to the same directory on your HD, thus overwrite it. Step three. Create a menu entry. Depends on your desktop that you use. I have no idea how to do this with gnome. In KDE, right click the 'start' or whatever button, --> Menu editor. The command to start draklive-install is: /usr/sbin/draklive-install Some more hints: - do all installations, updates etc before you add all the scripts. Otherwise some updates will overwrite the scripts. - never run automatic updates. it will pull in stuff that will break the mklivecd scripts (see the howto for more info) - if you upgrade your hardware to very new stuff, it is not 100% that the new hardware is configured properly. MCNLive is now with a kernel and drivers made some months ago. That is OLD . Some motherboards won't work, for example the Intel p33/35 that are in the new Dell Inspiron 530 serie, they need a newer kernel or some kernel arguments (all-ide-generic irqpoll pci=nommconf) to even start from CD. - if you want a Live DVD/CD that works on many different systems, don't install ANY proprietary graphic drivers, thus no propr. nvidia and ati drivers. But add all xorg-video drivers you can find.
  17. Fine here, thanks. How do you start a windows program with wine? And how do you close it? ... I don't know anything about wine stuff ... :unsure:
  18. Too bad. And I am sorry, but I am running out of ideas. It could be everything. The BIOS, the usb port, even the USB drive. Could be the MDV kernel in combination with this Bios etc. Guess you first need to find out if you can boot at all from usb with any linux distro, on this box.
  19. Here is the initrd.gz with a sleep of 20 seconds, you'll see a short message when booting: http://home.tiscali.nl/berenstraat/initrd.gz I am not sure if it will work. The MDV 2.6.17 kernel has some heavy usb problems. I sure hope we'll get a better 2008 kernel.
  20. Your files are ok. You either have a timing problem or a usb port problem. You could try a real cold boot. Unplug the usb drive. Shut down the computer. Unplug the power cord. Wait 20 seconds. Replug the power cord, plug the usb drive. Start up. You might want to try other bootcodes, but I doubt they will work. (livecd fromusb nopic nolapic acpi=off irqpoll). What you see is, that at this stage of the boot process, the usb drive is not seen, it looses the contact to the usb drive. It is a timing/kernel problem. Unfortunately there is no easy way to increase the sleep time in the startup script. Because you don't have a burned CD. If you would like to, I can make you a new initrd.gz with more sleep.
  21. What hardware do you use? Have you ever booted on this PC from external usb? Also, can you post the output of: ls -l (from the partition where the files are), I could check if the copied files are ok.
  22. Text only for the boot menu is ok. Some BIOS don't boot if there is graphic stuff. What is your _exact_ error messages, the last lines, please. Either the files on the drive are corrupted, or there is a usb boot problem. Please try to boot with the bootcode: lenovo (not: livecd lenovo, just: lenovo) And post the exact error messages.
  23. These are kernel processes.
  24. The install is ok, your drive is not: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?s=&...st&p=316261
  25. If vmware recognizes the external drive (and the partitions) as a /dev/sdX device, then you can install from the iso, with the Create live usb wizard. If not, you still can do it manually - but you need a running Linux system, pref. a MDV system, because you need to mount the iso and the livecd.sqfs compressed image, and you must install the syslinux bootloader. A CD is easier :D PS: the external HD needs a _FAT32/vfat_ partition as the _first_ partition. This first partition needs the boot flag.
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