access hard drives?
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| Author | Content |
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| right Aug 30, 2007 8:49 AM EDT |
Is this any different than other live-cd distros? |
| Sander_Marechal Aug 30, 2007 10:48 AM EDT |
By default? Yes. Most Live CD's do not automatically mount the hard drives. Usully only specialized distros do that (GParted, rescue disks). Edit: Not that mounting disks is so hard these days with GIU tools. |
| Abe Aug 30, 2007 10:59 AM EDT |
Quoting:Is this any different than other live-cd distros? I thought it was obvious. LiveCD has a pre-defined applications to install. This one is sort of building your own a la carte distro. You can specify what you want in the distro to install on your machine and possibly many other machines. Like in an Enterprise environment with thousands of machines that you want them to have the same fine selected applications. |
| techiem2 Aug 30, 2007 11:16 AM EDT |
hmm. It appears the generator is down... I'd kinda like to try it out and see what it can do. |
| Steven_Rosenber Aug 30, 2007 12:38 PM EDT |
I pulled out my NimbleX 2007v.2 CD and booted it. As live CDs go, it's pretty nice. The pared-down KDE system is very fast, and it includes a version of KWord with working "typographical" quotes, which are sorely lacking in Slax's version of KWord (though Slackware itself gets it right). I see how you can install NimbleX to the hard drive, but the whole thing looks a bit kludgy. Figuring out how to save your desktop parameters from the live-CD session would make NimbleX really useful. If you want something like Puppy or DSL but really want KDE, NimbleX is a great alternative. I once tried the "make your own spin" version of NimbleX, but it didn't work. |
| techiem2 Aug 30, 2007 3:10 PM EDT |
I just tried the make your own. It went fine until I told it to generate. It sat there for a while, then put up a message that I'd already made one today (rather odd) and can try again tomorrow. So obviously something is a bit flaky still. |
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