pilotaviola

I have installed Mandriva 2008.1 (with the simple graphic interphace) using the mini CD, and until now I am occuping about 1.4 GB, so at the moment I still don't need to install the packages elsewhere.

However, I cannot figure out how to see the videos. I loaded vlc realplayer and mediaplayer, but when I open the avi files (both in the bbc website and in my computer) I can heard the sound but I see a blue screen. I need some codec? I though I did not for Vlc.

Can somebody imagine the reason?

smoething else you may want to look at is portableapps.com

Thank you, but I did'nt found the Linux version, it's only for Windows

You have 2 PCMCIA on it so you could have an SDHC card of 4 or 8 GB on it for not much money and do your install on them...

Dear Stef, I have a 4 GB CF in the PCMCIA adapter, but unfortunately in the BIOS there is no option to boot form PCMCIA.

Do you think I can install the root system in the 2 GB SSD and some program on the PCMCIA? How to do it?

:mellow:

In my opinion your best option is to use the mini-dual CD (the 2008.1 mini-dual is a lot better than the 2008.0 version). This will install a minimal system, using IceWM. You could then add software as space allows.

Jim

Thanks for this suggestion, I am downloading the mini-dual CD now

I have an eeepc (asus) and mandriva 2008.1 (spring) the latest version insalled. I have most of the ususal software installed (firefox, openoffice, kaffeine, pidgin, gimp, digiKam etc...) and that runs on kde. The whole thing takes 2.1Gb so you are nearly there!

Why do you chose 2008 and not 2008.1?

Dear Stef, thank you for your reply.

Your installation is encouraging, but I would like to use ~ 1.5 MB for the operating system, ~200 MB as swap partition, ~300 free for potential additional software.

And yes, I meant 2008.1

Can you describe your hardware, there is a way to install /home for example on another drive (like a stick). Besides, are you including a swa pin your install?

...

In order to choose the packges you install an ftp install exists and gives you total control. Oce I did an install using xfce as a window manager, thunar as a file manager, mousepad as a text editor and terminal instead of konsole, that took about 1.2 Gb.

Thinkpad T40 centrino 1.5, 1gb RAM, Solid State Drive 2GB (I've broken too many hard drives)

You could also have a look at eeepclinuxos for a very small mandriva-based distro. MCNLive is very good too, a bit old now though and not supported anymore I think.

Last and not least, have you considered puppy Linux?

I would consider linuxos/puppylinux, but I like Mandriva.

I used MCNlive on a USB stick up to know, so I would rather install MCNlive if Mandriva is not feasible.

Looking at the other posts seems it's possible..... :)

Hello dear Mandriva experts.

I would like to install Mandriva One in a small HD with only 2 GB.

I know usually at least 4 GB are necessary.

There is some way to select witch packages to install?

Maybe I can install MCNlive instead?

Thank you

I had a look at the pcmciautils.

Seems that there is even more involved in configuring these cards.

I'd need to write some special scripts - but I am unsure. I admit that this is above my head if I need to do this without the hardware at hand.

Sorry, Paolo.

BTW, if you have a CF I can send you a PCMCIA adapter.

And the OO version will delay a bit ...

Obviously, take your time!

pcmciauitils ...rpm package:

......

I can at least all files that are installed with this package add to the initrd.

Looks like you found the solution...I am crossing the fingers!

When in early 2005 I started developing the first LiveUSB......

The best things, with Linux, for me personally is: working together with folks on a problem and the solution.

The collaboration between motivated and expert people is the key of the opensource software success, and with your MCNlive you made a wonderful job.

You can make it visible by opening a terminal and type:

tail -f /var/log/messages

before you do something with the card. On the running MCNLive.

Maybe we even can see what we are missing.

Ok, I will do

It is not too late for your wishes. Shoot! :D

Great :D

Ok, I got it.

Still I don't understand why with toronto I can see the CF partitons without reinsert it....

BTW, is too late to ask you to add mozilla thunderbird and synce to the pilota.iso?

Thank you so much!

Hello Chris, I have found this:

https://www.agol.dk/elgaard/pcmciaboot/

It can be useful for our purpose?

Thank you very much for this customised version, I really appreciate your kind support. :D

Still I don't understand why with toronto I could see the CF partitions without the need to extract-insert it, and with pilota.iso I cannot.....

Paolo

One more test, or do I ask too much? I am aware that it is not too much fun to do this :D

No problem at all, thank you for your time!

Here the outputs

[root@localhost guest]# cat /etc/fstab

### Entries below this line were automatically added by hwdetect v0.5.11-20060911

# ROOT

/dev/root / rootfs defaults 0 0

# PROC

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

# PTS

none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0

# cdrom: UJDA745 DVD/CDRW

/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto users,exec,ro,noauto,iocharset=utf8,umask=0 0 0

[root@localhost guest]# ls -l /mnt

total 0

[root@localhost guest]# ls -l /dev/hd*

brw-rw---- 1 guest cdwriter 22, 0 Aug 26 2007 /dev/hdc

* when you booted the pilotoa.iso, with the default boot entry, and with inserted card, you could not see icons in the "Devices", only after you took the card out, and in again, then these icons appeared?

correct

* with Toronto, with inserted card before booting, and the default boot, you could see the Card in "Devices", without re-inserting?

correct

Just don't insert the CF card before booting, but afterwards.

I thought that you had to re-insert it anyways, in both versions?

When you boot (without these new bootcodes), just with the default, you should have the same behaviour, or?

When I boot with the default in MCNlive toronto I don´t need to re-insert the CF, that´s the point!

The error messages indicate that the device is still not initialized. Result is that the partitions can't be found at all, at this early stage. Unfortunately I don't know where to look, because I don't have the hardware. There is a certain (udev ?) process involved, I believe.

The weird is that with MCNlive toronto I could see the partition icons in devices, not with this pilota.iso I cannot.

Don´t you think this is the problem?

Looks like you need to buy a cheap USB stick, make an ext3 partitions, to save your settings. I guess it is still the Thinkpad with the broken hard disk, yes?

Yes, it is. Having my data storage on an external USB hard drive, I don´t need an internal hd.

Actually, I can use a 1gb SD card of my camera into an USB adapter, but the CF into the PCMCIA was convenient beacause I don´t need to remove it when I move the laptop.

And ... the next days I have some time to build a new iso. A thanks to you for testing :-)

Just tell me what I should add. Open Office -- I know, something else?

Thank you so much. Do you know an open source software to use the skype account?

Just boot the default!! But have the CF card inserted before you boot.

After you booted sucessfully, run: mount

Are the partitions mounted?

No, neither I can see the partitions icons in devices.

I think this is the main problem, because before, booting MCNlive toronto from CD, I could see the partitions icons in devices.

It is ok that they are not mounted.

Just try the step 3, I explained above. Before you run the wizard, mount the ext3 partition by opening it via the devices icon.

If yes, run the wizard: Create persistent loop, choose ON EXT3, and make a loop file. A small one will do for a test.

I had to extract and insert again the CF in the PCMCIA slot, now I can see the partitions icons in devices, after click on these are mounted. I made a 50mb persistent loop.

---> Then reboot with the CF card inserted. This time choose in the menu: Boot with persistent changes. The entry 6.

(not yet: boot from pcmcia with persist)

Try to boot, make some changes. Do a clean shutdown/halt. And restart the computer, with inserted card. Choose again menu entry 6.

Does it keep the changes, do you get any errors?

During the boot, after loaded the PCMCIA, appears: can´t open etc/ftstab, then: mcnlive.loop not found.

Next test is: you would copy the big livecd.sqfs fle from the CD to the first FAT partition on your CF card.

..........

Restart the computer with the CD, with plugged in card, choose in the menu: boot from pcmcia

I copied the livecd.sqfs to the the FAT partition, but when I boot from pcmcia, after `searching for the loop image´ I read:

exiting LINUXRC,

then after some rows:

can´t access tly

job control turned off

3. Download the iso and burn it on a CD ...

The new CD has 2 new menu entreis on the first screen: Boot from PCMCIA and Boot from PCMCIA with persist.

If your CF card is ok, please boot from the CD, but don't use these new menu entries. Just boot the default!! But have the CF card inserted before you boot.

After you booted sucessfully, run: mount

Are the partitions mounted?

I downloaded the iso, burned the CD, booted from it, perfect.

Thank you very much for this customised version! The SF image is wonderful. :P

Unfortunately, having the CF inserted before the boot, I cannot see the partitions, even in devices....

If I extract and insert again the CF in the PCMCIA slot, now I can see the 2 partitions in devices, but still I see there that these are unmounted, and I cannot see them by typing mount.

If I click on the partitions icons within devices, finally are mounted, and typing mount I get:

/dev/hde2 on /media/disk type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,uhelper=hal,data=ordered)

/dev/hde1 on /media/disk-1 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uhelper=hal,flush,uid=500,utf8,shortname=lower)

Looks like it´s harder then I thought, sorry

:huh:

1. Please fix your CF card. The partition table is screwed.

........

I made two 2 GB partitions

2. Control now the partitions:

 

su
fdisk -l

 

And please post the result here. I'd like to see how the CF card looks now. If it is still odd, we need to wipe the partition table clean on command line.

Disk /dev/hde: 4159 MB, 4159733760 bytes

16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8060 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/hde1 * 1 4059 2045704+ b W95 FAT32

/dev/hde2 4060 8060 2016504 83 Linux

Pilota: before I am going to build a final iso for you, could you tell me if you have some special wishes?

 

Things you want me to include,

Customisation? That´s wonderful!

:D

I just would like to include Skype and I would like better, if possible, Mozilla firefox than Opera.

Finally, could you put on the background desktop a San Francisco image like this one?

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=359648668&size=l

GUI settings changed, uninstalling programs you never use - most likely we will need more than one test, and the smaller the iso is, the easier for me. It takes ages to upload it and wait until the public mirrors are syncing it.

 

The base is: Toronto. Please tell, what you don't need.

I would avoid the games and the whole office package: I want to load Openoffice in the persitent loop, that´s no limit to the amount of programs loaded there, right?

PS: you help a lot to improve MCNLive, because people will also be able to boot from an internal IDE hard disk, in live mode.

Thank you, I think for the laptop users to have linux in the flash card, that you can keep inside, unless the usb key, would be alread awesome....

I would like to make a bootcode: pilota :D

What a honor! :D

Give me some time. I will get back to you.

Thank you so much!

I'll check this post every day.

In theorie, with the added kernel modules, you would be able to use a mcnlive.loop on the pcmcia card and you would even be able to boot from the card. Or use a combination: boot from CD the first stage, then continue with the card, like we do with USB.

what bootcode in that case? Livecd frompcmcia?

But unfortunately you don't have enough RAM to make a remaster on the Thinkpad. You could create a swap partition on the card, enable the swap manually (swapon -a), but I am not sure if this is enough for the build process.

 

Give me some time, maybe a week, I'll make you an iso, and give you the download location.

So kind of you! :D

But first, can you tell me how the card is seen, I need the device node.

 

Insert the card, and do a:

 

su
fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hde: 4159 MB, 4159733760 bytes

16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8060 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/hde1 1 1509 760504+ 83 Linux

/dev/hde2 * 1 1 0 0 Empty

Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.

/dev/hde3 * 1 1 0 0 Empty

Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.

/dev/hde4 * 1 1 0 0 Empty

Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Of course I am ready to test!

I never tried remaster on fly because my Thinkpad has just 216mb of ram, I have to use a swap partiton?

I am booting from cd, but I am wondering if after your fixes I could boot from the cf inside the pcmcia...

I'd like better to create by MCC another partition, either ntfs or ext3, on the 4gb compact flash, but I could also use an external usb hard disk with ntfs partitions.

Let me know wich is the best option....

Thank you for this quick reply.

Here the root output:

[root@localhost guest]# lsmod

Module Size Used by

michael_mic 3072 1

ieee80211_crypt_tkip 10144 1

aes 28544 1

ieee80211_crypt_ccmp 7232 1

arc4 2528 1

ieee80211_crypt_wep 4800 0

snd_seq_dummy 3492 0

snd_seq_oss 31168 0

snd_seq_midi_event 6944 1 snd_seq_oss

snd_seq 49232 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event

snd_seq_device 7052 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq

snd_pcm_oss 40192 0

snd_mixer_oss 15904 1 snd_pcm_oss

snd_intel8x0 29212 0

snd_ac97_codec 96708 1 snd_intel8x0

af_packet 17768 4

snd_ac97_bus 2720 1 snd_ac97_codec

snd_pcm 69892 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec

snd_timer 19396 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm

snd_page_alloc 8552 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

snd 46276 9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac

7_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer

soundcore 7936 1 snd

usbhid 50272 0

ide_cs 8896 1

pcmcia 31756 1 ide_cs

yenta_socket 24076 4

rsrc_nonstatic 11616 1 yenta_socket

pcmcia_core 34388 4 ide_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic

ide_generic 1824 0 [permanent]

ipw2100 67280 0

ieee80211 30216 1 ipw2100

ieee80211_crypt 5344 4 ieee80211_crypt_tkip,ieee80211_crypt_ccmp,ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211

e1000 119008 0

cpufreq_ondemand 6956 0

cpufreq_conservative 6920 0

cpufreq_powersave 2272 0

speedstep_centrino 7984 1

freq_table 4704 1 speedstep_centrino

processor 21256 1 speedstep_centrino

radeon 113472 2

drm 62420 3 radeon

ipv6 237088 8

intel_agp 22684 1

agpgart 27048 2 drm,intel_agp

rfcomm 33236 0

l2cap 21088 5 rfcomm

bluetooth 43108 4 rfcomm,l2cap

vboxdrv 28164 0

binfmt_misc 9704 1

dm_mirror 18960 0

dm_mod 49560 1 dm_mirror

evdev 8672 2

joydev 8800 0

tsdev 6880 0

floppy 55108 0

unionfs 300776 1

squashfs 43044 1

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 0

ehci_hcd 28904 0

ohci_hcd 18820 0

uhci_hcd 20912 0

usbcore 112960 6 usbhid,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd

mptbase 47168 0

scsi_transport_spi 22368 1 aic7xxx

sd_mod 18432 0

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

omise,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

bata,sr_mod

loop 15208 2

ide_cd 35616 1

isofs 32284 1

nls_utf8 2496 0

ntfs 267228 0

vfat 10944 0

msdos 8480 0

fat 47356 2 vfat,msdos

reiserfs 255492 0

ext3 125928 1

jbd 51220 1 ext3

nls_cp437 6304 0

nls_iso8859_2 5216 0

nls_iso8859_1 4672 1

[root@localhost guest]# lspcidrake -v

intel-agp : Intel Corporation|82855PM Processor to I/O Controller [bRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:8086 device:3340 subv:1014 subd:0529)

unknown : Intel Corporation|82855PM Processor to AGP Controller [bRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:3341)

uhci-hcd : Intel Corporation|82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [sERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:24c2 subv:1014 subd:052d)

uhci-hcd : Intel Corporation|82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [sERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:24c4 subv:1014 subd:052d)

uhci-hcd : Intel Corporation|82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [sERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:24c7 subv:1014 subd:052d)

ehci-hcd : Intel Corporation|82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [sERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:24cd subv:1014 subd:052e)

hw_random : Intel Corporation|82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [bRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:2448)

i8xx_tco : Intel Corporation|82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge [bRIDGE_ISA] (vendor:8086 device:24cc)

piix : Intel Corporation|82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller [sTORAGE_IDE] (vendor:8086 device:24ca subv:1014 subd:052d)

i2c-i801 : Intel Corporation|82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller [sERIAL_SMBUS] (vendor:8086 device:24c3 subv:1014 subd:052d)

snd-intel8x0 : Intel Corporation|82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:8086 device:24c5 subv:1014 subd:0537)

snd-intel8x0m : Intel Corporation|82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller [COMMUNICATION_MODEM] (vendor:8086 device:24c6 subv:1014 subd:0524)

Card:ATI Radeon 9250 and earlier: ATI Technologies Inc|Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:1002 device:4c57 subv:1014 subd:0530)

yenta_socket : Texas Instruments|PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller [bRIDGE_CARDBUS] (vendor:104c device:ac55 subv:4000 subd:0000)

yenta_socket : Texas Instruments|PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller [bRIDGE_CARDBUS] (vendor:104c device:ac55 subv:4800 subd:0000)

e1000 : Intel Corporation|82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile) [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:8086 device:101e subv:1014 subd:0549)

ipw2100 : Intel Corporation|PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:1043 subv:8086 subd:2551)

hub : Linux 2.6.17-13mdv ehci_hcd|EHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused] (vendor:0000 device:0000)

hub : Linux 2.6.17-13mdv uhci_hcd|UHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused] (vendor:0000 device:0000)

hub : Linux 2.6.17-13mdv uhci_hcd|UHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused] (vendor:0000 device:0000)

hub : Linux 2.6.17-13mdv uhci_hcd|UHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused] (vendor:0000 device:0000)

Hello all, I have successfully created mcnlive.loop on a ext3 partition on a Compact Flash inserted in my laptop via an PCMCIA adapter.

No way to load it during the MCNlive toronto boot from CD, using the option persist.

Probably because it is not mounted by default, but only after I click on this partition icon of Devices?