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How to i customize the Kde menu per user?. I have LTSP installed on Mandriva 2007.1 and would like for some users a minimal menu. On Gnome there is a option to hide menu entries and categories. Does that exist on Kde? If not, Can i make Kde use the Gnome menu on certain users?

I have a HD installation from 2007 MCN Livecd that has been running for a while. I would like to make a Licecd from it that would fit on a CD. Which file should i delete? I can thing of LOG files now but there must be others. When cleaning log files, should i just delete them?

I use Livecd to install to hard disk and do full backup(livecd) that i can restore later. This is a great feature. In order to keep Livecd small, some files were removed. Some of them are the Help files. Is there a way to restore them once installed on hardisk?

Wouldn't it be easier to install or make a new kernel to run it as a default but keep the original MCNlivecd kernel to boot from it when you need to make the ISO? You can have more than one kernel installed at the same time. Maybe the ISO is not going to fit on a CD but it can be burned on a DVD anyway.

It is great to be able to instal in a standard installation the scripts to make a Livecd but it is only possible on Mandriva 2007.1 but i have mandriva 2007. MDV has a backup program but as i see, what it call a system backup is only backing up the /etc directory. MCNlivecd adapts the installation to the media you are going to install to. Let you partition and format the new media as you wish and install for you. Isn't that great? Talking about backusp, i have a mandriva 2006 installation (not from MCNlive) on a server and would like to make a full backup of it. Is there a livecd that i could boot from with all the software needed to do the full backup (partition table, and evething) and that would let me restore it to a new hardisk partitioning it as the old one was?

Ok. I understand the reasons why you do not recommend installing from MCNlive cd. But the advantage of being able to backup to CD or DVD making a Livecd is not included in the official or real distribution and this is extremely important for me. If i install from Official CD? is there a way i can install your scripts to make livecd? as i do with MCNlive? You did a great job. Thanks

I am trying to run a software named Gambas but the RPM on Mandriva 2007 and 2007.1 are broken. Found some good RPM for Mandriva 2006 so i downloaded MCNLive-Leuven_v2.iso and would like to install it to a virtual HD for VWPLAYER. I did not see any option to instal it other that USB. Is there a way to do a Hard disk install? Why not using the original 2006 cds? I do not find them and downloading would take a few days. Also i love the way your Livecd work. Small, easy,fast,etc

Thanks for so detailed instructions. Now it works.

I have installed on HD Virtualcity and customerize to be a server for LTSP. It is working perfectly and has even remaster it to create a Livecd (Livedvd) from the HD installation. LTSP use 2 network cards. After a few weeks, i had to replace one of them on the HD installation because the card stop working. The new card was detected as eth2 when the intention was that it replaced the removed eth0. Using every available option on MCC has not help. I would like to know which software is run during installation from livecd to HD to detect and configure the network cards. This software does a great job because has been detecting the cards correctly. Maybe if i could run this software, the new card would be detected easier. This problem has been present even on the old installation of mandriva 2007 from original CD (not livecd).

The last thing i had to do was to update initscripts. I has done it and this update did not affect the remastering of the HD installation. This iso also install ok in a HD. But it might affect other features of this Livecd. In conclusion, all update where applied except kernel and Busybox had to installed back because mille-xterm-busybox had erase it. So as you said, "Please do not run any --auto-update or --auto-select" is proven true.

I have as updates sources Main updates and Contrib updates. That is why i had to install it back with MCC.I was courious why with a HD installation of your 2007 livecd i was able to apply all updates without any problem and with Delft i had Kernel Panic. Now i think we know the cause and also know what to update and what not to update. I agree with this conclusion. This livecd is a great solution for my needs. I have to build a few computers with the same software installed (clone) and back them up regularly. You have provide me with both solutions on this live cd. 1. Build one computer, make a livecd of it and install on others even if the hardware is different. 2. Backup by making a remastering of each computer regularly. 3. In case of disaster, easely restore the backup. 4. Updates, apply update to one computer remaster and install the new iso. If there is not a problem, you know you can safely apply the updates to all computers. But i would recomment doing a remaster of each first. Just in case. Thanks for this great software. P.D. I was wrong when i posted that Xinitrc was the cause of the problem.

I has been installing updates (a few at the time) to the Delft HD installation and remastering it. Just found that when installed update for "mille-xterm-busybox????" and remastered, there was a message (while remastering) indicating that "could not stat busybox" and the iso hang with a "Kernel panic" message while booting. Then i found that busybox was not installed so i installed it with MCC and run a remastering again and the error message did not show this time and the iso booted perfectly. I has deleted in this HD installation the "last Kernel" software so while updateing it does not try to update kernel. If a newer kernel is needed, it will be added. This way i can run under any newer kernel and when remastering i will boot from the original one. Up to now the only package i has not installed is the kernel and initscripts. Now come remastering#6. I will let you know what happend when i finally install initscripts. Thanks

OK. I installer delft on a virtual disk via vmplayer from the delft ISO. Evething was fine. i did not install any update this time. Then i rebooted delft but this time in "safe mode", changed to root and typed mklivecd --verbose remaster.iso. Then there was a Broken Pipe and a Segmentation Fault. Creating initrd: [ 92.13% 00:00:04/00:00:04]ta r: ./etc/udev/rules.d/61-block_config.rules: time stamp 2007-05-22 21:42:53 is 4 331.883016 s in the future tar: ./etc/udev: time stamp 2007-05-22 21:42:52 is 4330.874663 s in the future [ 95.51% 00:00:07/00:00:07] -d //tmp || mkdir //tmp ; /isolinuxmv -f /tmp/[ 95.51% 00:00:07/00:00:07]sh : line 1: 3424 Broken pipe /bin/zcat //tmp/initrd.gz 2>/dev/null 3425 Segmentation fault | /bin/cpio -t >&/dev/null bootsplash not found in //tmp/initrd.gz [100.00% 00:00:19/00:00:20] running: chkconfig --add harddrake with root / What does it means? Is it normal? Anyway i can boot from this ISO. now i will apply some updates a post when it breaks. I has an HD installation made from your livecd of mandriva 2007 not 2007.1 with all the updates applied and other software installed and remaster it. It produced a booting iso od 1.4GB. I burned it on a DVD and installed this remastered iso in other computers without any problem. This is what i was looking for.

I will try to experiment more tonight with xinitrc and other updates on the HD installation and let you know what happends. According to what you just explained, updating seems more dangerous that what i thought. But it is good to know the details you just wrote about the files you modify. Thanks.

Seems to me that the initscripts that has been updated do not harm the remaster proccess since i applied all the updates but xinitrc and has been able to remaster the HD installation and boot from this CD. I has just started to use MCN livecd as a standard HD installation because of the advantage of beeing able to remaster it. This is a way to backup the installations and try it as CD or DVD livecd to be sure it will work when you need it. I has tried some backup scripts but none is as easy as this livecd. Is there a list of files that has been modified to make MCN livecd remaster proccess work? or maybe a list of packages that each user should blacklist if he does not want to loose the remaster proccess?

I installed Delft on hard disk, customerize it and remaster. Burn the iso to CD and installed to Hard disk again from remastered CD without problem. Now Applied to this HD installation all updates available up to now for Mandriva 2007.1 and remaster again. This remastered CD will stop while booting "Kernel Panic" Installed to hard disk from first rematered CD (the one that boots) and applied all the updated but Xinitrc-2.4.19-zmdv2007.1.noarch and new kernel. Remastered and the CD boots OK. Now installed Xinitrc-2.4.19-zmdv2007.1.noarch and remaster. The result is a CD that do not finish booting. Kernell panic. Up to now, i will say that Xinitrc-2.4.19-zmdv2007.1.noarch is the cause of the problem. If original xinitrc-2.4.18-3mdv2007.1 is keept, there is no problem. Has it happend to somebody else? By the way. Great job done with MCN livecd scripts. Correction I was wrong, Xinitrc is not the cause of the problem but other rpm on the updates.