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I know I'm new, and I know I'm going to crosspost this, but I'd REALLY appreciate some feedback from anyone who has tried this.

 

I would be willing to pay for the mandiva flash if there were a way to port it over to another device,

 

say something like this:

 

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=1-...asin=B0002QX3WO

 

imagine 120GB portable linux machine!

 

 

anyone?

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Also I am interested an a simillar solution, because i need more space and want a language not supported in the given solution.

 

The Mandriva Flash solution have the system in a compressed read only(?) format so it is not easily extendable. The compression mean both lesser space is used, but also higher speed as apparent read speed after decomprresison is faster than USB limit.

 

But when having a large disk instead of flash, why not get a silver membership and install Powerpack on to the drive?

Make / about 15G, and at the prompt half way through check mark to copy the whole CD-set / DVD to hard disk.

That way you will always have possibility to install anything in Powerpack, for example change drivers.

 

I doubt, but hope, it will autodetect any supported hardware each boot and use appropriate driver automagically...

Or it can be configured to do that?

Somebody else probably knows this much better than me...

 

Another solution would be to try imaging the flash to the hard disk using the dd-command, then extending the non-compressed partitions. The idea is it will boot like original, and like the original also be updateable, but now it have much more space for that. How to manage to do do that expanding I do not know.

(all this preparation need to be done using an already running Linux machine, of course)

 

About partitions on Flash:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/individuals/pro...e_3482/faq#part

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More ideas:

 

Maybe we can roll our own using tools intended for making "Live-CDs"?

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=10855

 

I never done something like that, but it seem to include making a customised "master" installation in separate partition on a computer, then use a tool to make a compressed image of it to put on CD.

That way we can form and update the master, then make updated images to put on the Flash.

(the compressed system for CD is readonly)

 

We have to learn how to make it use a separate noncompressed partition for /home

Maybe edit fstab in the master installation just before makign the .iso of it?

And if we make it mount that partition by label it is not dependant on other USB-drives changing disk number

 

Also it should save any changes like dial-iup and such, that LiveCD do not... how to change?

 

Does this sound possible?

 

We need to place that /home partiiton so it is not written over by a growing iso.

How to put a .iso intended for a CD or DVD on to a USB the right way, and wothout disturbing the /home partition iI do not know.

 

How to make it include all drivers to be able to autodetect and use the right driver on any PC i do not know.

 

A high speed Flash is naturally beneficable.

I found this 8GB stick, with pasword protection, display, and 33MB/s read speed, at approx 130 EUR ex tax.

http://www.komplett.se/k/ki.asp?sku=325454&view=links

 

Using a fast 8GB stick we maybe do not *need* compression (although it would be nice for both speed and space) But just install to one large partition on it.

 

About compression, it seems possible to compress user files usig technique like:

http://parallel.vub.ac.be/~johan/compFUSEd/

There seem to be more than one such system being developed, but none ready for use?

(try google...)

 

Using compression, we can afford to put the whole Powerpack installation DVD on the Flash if we use 8GB flash...

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