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<title><![CDATA[Creating a bootable USB drive]]></title>
<link>http://stevenwestwell.wordpress.com/?p=20</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Steven Westwell</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little overdue on a couple of entries, but they will be coming shortly  
Awhile back now]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I'm a little overdue on a couple of entries, but they will be coming shortly :)</p>
<p>Awhile back now, after burning far too many build cd's and dvd's, problems with coasters and so on, we moved to placing the build image onto a bootable 8gb USB drive.  This meant we could make small script changes on the fly and rebuild a new machine without having to update distribution points and reburn media.  In order to do this we used diskpart to format the hspeed USB sticks.</p>
<p>Now, on many occasion I've needed to reformat the USB key and completely forgotten the sequence of commands, so I am going to place them here and if anyone else happens to find it useful... fantastic! I can say that our experience has shown it can significantly speed up a build when you do not have to wait for the machine to copy a large image from an optical drive.</p>
<p>The one downside of using USB boot media for your builds is the fact that they can potentially be altered in an uncontrolled fashion, therefore I would suggest you either keep it within your development and build team, or potentially utilise an MD5 hash, and verify it against a value in a database at the beginning of the build process.  I did begin to write this script, but unfortunately it isnt in a state to share the code, there are a few command line applications available to incorporate into a simple script if you want to pursue this.  If I get the chance to revisit it sometime, I will also post the final code here.</p>
<p>ok, so how do I make my USB drive bootable?</p>
<p>open a command line window on your Vista machine then type the following sequence of commands:</p>
<ul>
<li>Diskpart</li>
<li>list disk (you should be able to spot your USB stick by the size, take note of the number listed against it)</li>
<li>select disk n (where n is the number from the previous step)</li>
<li>clean</li>
<li>create partition primary</li>
<li>select partition 1</li>
<li>active</li>
<li>format fs=ntfs quick</li>
<li>exit</li>
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<p>And you are done!</p>
<p>Copy over the contents of your build DVD and the next time you boot from this USB stick winPE should appear and do its thing.</p>
<p>I've been attempting to carry this concept over to linux live cd's / live usb distro's, but this hasnt been going to plan... if I get that working, I'll update, I have a feeling that may be due to the high capacity USB drives.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Kaspersky Anti-virus Emergency Bootable CD]]></title>
<link>http://freedownloadssoftware.wordpress.com/?p=77</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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Kaspersky Anti-virus 8.0.0.357 Emergency Bootable CD with Definitions Dated 02/07/08 | ISO | 81.2 ]]></description>
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<p>Kaspersky Anti-virus 8.0.0.357 Emergency Bootable CD with Definitions Dated 02/07/08 &#124; ISO &#124; 81.2 MB Use the KAV Emergency CD to clean your machine from infections Boot from CD to clean your machine from infections. This CD was prepared with Bart’s PE Builder 3.1.10a. It includes Windows XP SP3 system files and KAV virus definitions dated 2 July 2008. The Emergency CD loads network drivers and allows KAV to update virus definitions on-line before scanning.</p></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Bootable pen drive]]></title>
<link>http://samsami2u.wordpress.com/?p=39</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>samsami2u</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Today i was searching for how to make pen drive a bootable device for windows XP. And i found an art]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today i was searching for how to make pen drive a bootable device for windows XP. And i found an article on this topic. So, here's how you can make your pen drive bootable for windows XP.</p>
<h1>Requirements:</h1>
<p>As with most cool new techniques, there are a few catches. For starters, not every PC is capable of booting from a USB flash drive. For the most part, computers manufactured within the last two years are generally able to boot from a flash drive. Older systems may require a BIOS update, or might not be able to boot from a flash drive at all.</p>
<p>Another catch is that not every flash drive will get the job done. The primary factors that limit your use of a particular flash drive are capacity and speed. Technically, speed isn't really a limiting factor, but booting Windows will be painfully slow unless you use a flash drive that supports USB 2.0.</p>
<p>The flash drive's capacity is actually a limiting factor though. Surprisingly though, there are size limits on both the upper and lower end. Your flash drive can't be too large or too small. There isn't really a documented minimal size for a flash drive. You just need something large enough to hold Windows XP and a few applications. As you probably know, Windows XP normally consumes over a gigabyte of disk space. Later I will show you how to use a free utility to trim the excess fat off of Windows XP and make it a whole lot smaller. Even so, I still recommend that your flash drive be at least a minimum of 256 MB in size.</p>
<p>As I mentioned, there is a maximum size for the USB flash drive that you can use. Currently, USB flash drives exist in sizes of up to 4 GB, and 8 GB flash drives are expected to be available by the end of the year. As nice as it would be to have 8 GB to play with, the flash drive that you use for this project can be no larger than 2 GB. The reason for this is because you will have to format the flash drive using the FAT-16 file system, which has a 2 GB limit. Presently, you are stuck using FAT-16 because most computers will not recognize a flash drive as being bootable if the drive is formatted with anything other than FAT-16.</p>
<h1>Preparing your Windows installation CD</h1>
<p>One of the requirements for creating our bootable USB flash drive is a Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installation CD. If your Windows XP installation CD doesn't already include Service Pack 2, then you will have to make a CD that includes Service Pack 2 through a technique called <a href="http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6346_11-5304468.html" target="_blank">slipstreaming</a>.</p>
<h1>Other requirements</h1>
<p>In addition to your Windows XP installation CD, there are a couple of other things that you are going to need. For starters, you will need the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. You can download this tool for <a href="http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html" target="_blank">free</a> OR <a href="http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=197" target="_blank">Here</a>.</p>
<p>Another utility that you are going to need is Bart's Preinstalled Environment Bootable Live Windows CD / DVD, or BartPE for short. You can download this utility for free from the <a href="http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/" target="_blank">BartPE Web site</a>.</p>
<p>In addition to the software requirements, you must verify that the PC that you will be using to create the Windows deployment has 1.5 GB of free hard disk space (minimum) and supports booting from a USB device. I also strongly recommend that the PC be running Windows XP Service Pack 2. Prior to Service Pack 2, Windows XP sometimes had trouble interacting with USB storage devices.</p>
<h1>Formatting the flash drive</h1>
<p>Now that you have all of the prerequisites taken care of, it's time to actually start setting up our flash drive. The first step in doing so, as strange as it sounds, is to format the flash drive. Windows will actually let you format a flash drive in the same way that you format a floppy disk. However, formatting a flash drive in this way will not work for this project. Furthermore, using Windows to format a flash drive directly has been known to destroy some types of flash drives.</p>
<p>Instead, you must format the flash drive by using the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool that you downloaded earlier. To do so, simply open the utility, select the device followed by the FAT file system option and click Start.</p>
<p>Once the device has been formatted, you must make it bootable. To do so, you must copy the BOOT.INI, NTLDR, and NTDETECT from the root directory of your PC's boot drive to the flash drive. These files are hidden by default, so you will either have to configure Windows Explorer to show hidden files (including protected operating system files) or you will have to open a Command Prompt window and use the COPY command to copy the files.</p>
<p>If you choose to use the Windows Explorer method, then open Internet Explorer and enter C: into the address bar so that you are looking at your local hard drive. Next, select the Folder Options command from the Tools menu. When the Folder Options properties sheet opens, select the View tab. Now, just select the Show Hidden Files and Folders and deselect the Hide Extensions for Known File Types and the Hide Protected Operating System Files check boxes. Click OK to continue.</p>
<h1>Booting from the USB flash drive</h1>
<p>Now that you have formatted your USB flash drive and installed the boot files onto it, the next thing that you must do is to configure your PC to allow you to boot from the flash drive. This is all done through the computer's BIOS Setup. I can't give you specific instructions for this part, because every computer is different. I can give you a few pointers though.</p>
<p>You can access your computer's BIOS by pressing a specific key immediately after you turn the PC on. The key varies, but it is usually either [F1], [F2], or [Delete]. Once you are in the BIOS Setup, you should verify that all of your computer's USB options are enabled. This might include things like support for legacy USB devices or support for USB 2.0. If there is a time out setting for USB devices, you should set it to the max to insure that the system doesn't time out while waiting on the USB device to boot.</p>
<p>Next, find the section on boot device priority. Normally, a USB flash drive (which is usually listed as USB-HDD, but may be listed as a removable device) will have a very low boot priority. If the USB flash drive's boot priority is lower than the hard disk (listed as HDD) then the only time the computer would ever boot off of the USB flash drive is if the system were to fail to boot from the hard disk. You must therefore rearrange the boot device priority so that the flash drive has a higher priority than the hard drive.</p>
<h1>Configuring Windows</h1>
<p>Now that we have finally made it through all of the prep work, it's time to start setting up Windows. As you have probably already guessed, the process of installing Windows to a flash drive is quite a bit different from your normal, run of the mill installation. There are a couple of reasons for this.</p>
<p>For starters, a full blown Windows XP deployment takes up over a Gigabyte of hard disk space. When you are installing to a flash drive, disk space is a scarce commodity. Even if you have over a Gigabyte of space on your flash drive, you probably don't want to use it all on Windows. It would be nice to have room to install a few applications. Therefore, you need to trim the excess fat off of Windows.</p>
<p>The other reason why the installation process is so different from the usual Windows installation is because Windows Setup is not designed to install Windows to a flash drive. You therefore have to configure Windows using an alternate method.</p>
<p>The PEBuilder utility that you downloaded earlier can take care of both of these issues. PEBuilder is designed to create a build of Windows XP (or Windows Server 2003) that does not take up as much space as a full blown installation. Once you create this new build, you can copy it to the flash drive. For right now, I will show you how to create a basic Windows build and copy it to the memory stick. Unfortunately, it's rather difficult to install applications once Windows is up and running. Therefore, after I show you how to create a basic Windows build, I will show you how to create a build that includes some applications.</p>
<p>Begin the process by opening PEBuilder. When you open PEBuilder, you will see a screen similar to the one that's shown in Figure A. Simply enter the path to the Windows installation files (the ones from your Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installation CD). Next, verify that the Create ISO Image and the Burn to CD check boxes are not selected and then click the Build button. PEBuilder will now create the new Windows build.</p>
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<td align="center"><img src="http://samsami2u.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/5928902_xp_usb_a.jpg" alt="You must use PEBuilder to create a Windows build that will work with a flash drive" /></td>
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<td align="center">You must use PEBuilder to create a Windows build that will work with a flash drive.</td>
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<p>Now, it's time to copy Windows to the flash drive. To do so, you will have to use a special batch file that's included with PEBuilder. Open a Command Prompt window and navigate to c:\pebuilder313\plugin\peinst. Now, insert an empty flash drive into the computer's USB port and then execute the file PEINST.CMD. You will now see a menu appear as shown in Figure B.</p>
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<td align="center"><img src="http://samsami2u.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/5928902_xp_usb_b.jpg" alt="PEBuilder uses a batch file to install Windows onto a flash drive" width="420" height="212" /></td>
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<td align="center">PEBuilder uses a batch file to install Windows onto a flash drive.</td>
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<p>Type 1 and press [Enter] and you will be prompted to enter the path to the build that you have created. Enter C:\pebuilder313\BartPE. Now, type 2, press [Enter], and you will be prompted for the target path. Enter the drive letter that Windows has assigned to your USB flash drive. After doing so, the menu is updated as shown in Figure C. The menu now displays the source path and the destination drive. Type 5 and press [Enter] to install Windows to the flash drive.</p>
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<td align="center"><img src="http://samsami2u.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/5928902_xp_usb_c.jpg" alt="Use menu option 5 to install Windows to the flash drive" /></td>
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<td align="center">Use menu option 5 to install Windows to the flash drive.</td>
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<h1>Installing applications</h1>
<p>Now that I have shown you how to create and install a basic Windows build, I want to talk for a moment about how you can add an application to the build (prior to creating it).  The PEBuilder program comes pre-configured to support a number of common Windows applications, but does not come with the applications themselves.</p>
<p>The reason why installing applications can be a little bit tricky is because most Windows applications modify the Windows registry. The build that you are creating is basically a collection of installation files, and the build itself does not contain a registry (the registry gets created when Windows is installed onto the flash drive). As such, PEBuilder uses a sort of registry emulator.</p>
<p>If you go to the C:\PEBUILDER313\PLUGIN folder, you will see sub folders for a number of different applications. If you open one of these application folders, you will see that the folder contains an INF file and a FILES folder. The INF file contains all of the information that would normally go into the registry, and the FILES folder stores all of the program's files.</p>
<p>To see how this works, let's install an application that I'm sure most of you are familiar with; Nero. Begin by installing Nero onto the machine that's running PEBuilder, as if you planned to run Nero locally on that machine. When the installation completes, copy all of the files from C:\Program Files\ahead\Nero to C:\pebuilder313\plugin\nero burning rom\files. In this particular case, the nero burning rom folder is the folder that has been set aside for the Nero application. The Files sub folder is intended to store Nero's system files.</p>
<p>Now, you must take care of Nero's registry entries. To do so, go to the C:\pebuilder313\plugin\nero burning rom folder and open the PENERO.INF file using Notepad. As I explained earlier, the INF file in an application's folder is used to store the application's registry entries. For Nero and all of the other applications that PEBuilder predefines, the INF file is pre-configured. You just have to make a few changes that are specific to your system.</p>
<p>In this particular case, the PENERO.INF file is designed to support both Nero versions 5.x and 6.x. Initially, the lines for both versions are commented out. You must therefore determine which version you have and then remove the semi colon from the beginning of the lines that apply to that version. If you look at Figure D, you can see how the two versions are separated.</p>
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<p>Once you uncomment the appropriate lines, just replace "Your Name", "Your Company Name" and "Your Serial Number" with your name, your company's name, and your Nero product key. Save the file, and your set to go. The next time that you click the Build button, Nero will be included in the build.</p>
<h1>Putting XP in your pocket</h1>
<p>Running Windows from a flash drive isn't an exact science. Sometimes the process just doesn't work and there is no good reason why. As more PCs start to support booting from USB devices though, USB boots should become more standardized, and the technique should become more reliable.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Uscita di emergenza]]></title>
<link>http://lotux.wordpress.com/?p=20</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 14:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lotux</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Chi non si e&#8217; mai imbattuto in un OS che si rifiuta di partire alzi la mano. Ecco, lo sospetta]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chi non si e' mai imbattuto in un OS che si rifiuta di partire alzi la mano. Ecco, lo sospettavo..<br />
Che fare in questi casi? Ok, dopo i primi cinque minuti di panico totale ecco che ci viene in mente che qualche tempo prima avevamo fatto una copia Usb-bootable di Linux su una vecchia penna usb! Per fortuna i nostri dati non sono andati persi nemmeno stavolta.</p>
<div style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://lotux.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/foto-34-uscita-di-sicurezza-copia.jpg?w=120" alt="Uscita di sicurezza Usb" width="120" height="152" /><img src="http://lotux.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/puppy_linux_free.gif?w=300" alt="Puppy Linux" width="216" height="151" /></div>
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<div style="text-align:center;">Ecco quindi come procedere per creare la nostra distro di Linux bootable in maniera veloce e pratica. La distro scelta e' Puppy Linux, che occupa solo 80 Mb e puo' essere caricata anche in Ram, con conseguente apertura fulminea di tutte le applicazioni. In piu' questa distro ha un utile tool di installazione che in automatico permette di creare cd, penne usb, unita' zip tutte bootabili all'avvio oppure di installare in maniera permanente la distro in una partizione dell'hard disk.</div>
<div style="text-align:center;">Prima di tutto dobbiamo procurarci una penna usb da dedicare allo scopo: io ho preso questo vecchio lettore mp3 ormai inutilizzato, da 128 Mb. Piu' che sufficienti per questa finalita'.</div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://lotux.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/t-logic-tl-208-1m.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-23" src="http://lotux.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/t-logic-tl-208-1m.jpg?w=210" alt="TL-208" width="210" height="162" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align:center;">Da un altro pc, ho formattato il device con filesystem Fat32, utilizzando GParted.</div>
<div style="text-align:center;">In seguito bisogna scaricare l'iso dell'ultima release di Puppy Linux, direttamente dal sito ufficiale <a href="http://www.puppylinux.org/" target="_blank">http://www.puppylinux.org/<br />
</a> e masterizzarla su un cd-r o cd-rw. Inseriamo quindi il cd nel pc e (modificando opportunamente le impostazioni del bios se necessario) facciamo partire Puppy Linux. Tranquilli: parte in versione live cd, nessun file del vostro hard disk verra' modificato.</div>
<div style="text-align:center;">Una volta avviato il sistema operativo inseriamo la penna usb e clicchiamo su mount (come avrete notato basta un solo click per aprire le applicazioni, non un doppio-click). Troviamo il device corrispondente alla nostra periferica usb e montiamolo.</div>
<div style="text-align:center;">Finalmente, dal Menu' clicchiamo su Setup-&#62;Puppy Universal Installer.</div>
<div style="text-align:center;">Ci verra' chiesto dove installare Puppy Linux: scegliamo Flash Drive, e in seguito selezioniamo il device corrispondente alla penna usb. Successivamente, nelle opzioni per il MBR clicchiamo su MBR Default. Il resto della procedura e' guidato e durera' pochi minuti, lasciate fare e aspettate fiduciosi.</div>
<div style="text-align:center;">Una volta terminato il tutto, possiamo terminare la sessione, avendo cura di estrarre il cd prima di riavviare. A questo punto riavviamo e entriamo nel setup del bios. Scegliamo come prima periferica di boot la porta usb, e salviamo le impostazioni. Con la penna usb inserita, dovrebbe a questo punto partire Puppy Linux in versione live, esattamente come da cd.</div>
<div style="text-align:center;">Per i computer piu' datati, le cui schede madri non supportano l'avivo da usb, e' possibile creare un Floppy di avvio sempre da Puppy Linux: avviamo l'applicazione Wake Up e selezioniamo WakePup create boot floppy.</div>
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<title><![CDATA[Knoppix on a usb flash drive - Part 3]]></title>
<link>http://luzidity.wordpress.com/?p=64</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lucidity</dc:creator>
<guid>http://luzidity.wordpress.com/?p=64</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Well, i&#8217;ve managed to eliminate all the other possibilities besides the Sony service partition]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, i've managed to eliminate all the other possibilities besides the Sony service partition on the flash card.  It looks like it might have something like that,  but it doesn't show up in fdisk.  It also appears that (at least without Vista) there is no way to remove it.  (seems like it might fuck up \/\/1/\/D0Z3 \/1$+A) so Sony provides a utility to remove this, but the program can only be run with Vista which, of course, i don't have.  Well, now i just need to see if i can return this damn Sony flash card and get a Lexar Firefly instead;  i've had nothing but good luck with these, plus they're really small.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Membuat flashdisk bootable Ubuntu 7.10 lewat windows]]></title>
<link>http://bahroell.wordpress.com/?p=72</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bahroell</dc:creator>
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Membuat Flashdisk bootable yang isinya Live CD Ubuntu 7.10 lewat windows ternyata tidak sesulit yan]]></description>
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<p>Membuat Flashdisk bootable yang isinya Live CD Ubuntu 7.10 lewat windows ternyata tidak sesulit yang kita bayangkan, langkah - langkahnya adalah sebagai berikut :</p>
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<li>Download dulu file syslinux disini <a href="http://freshmeat.net/redir/syslinux/10177/url_zip/syslinux-3.51.zip">http://freshmeat.net/redir/syslinux/10177/url_zip/syslinux-3.51.zip</a> </li>
<li>Buat directory syslinux di C:</li>
<li>Kemudian extract file yang kita download tadi ke folder C:\syslinux</li>
<li>Pada command promt windows masuk ke direktory c\:syslinux\win32</li>
<li>Gunakan perintah berikut untuk membuat usb bisa sebagai bootable disk : syslinux -s F: ( asumsi usb drive di F )</li>
<li>Langkah selanjutnya adalah mengcopy semua file di Ubuntu 7.10 Live CD ke dalam USB, sebaiknya gunakan command xcopy /e /h /k d:\*.* f: (D sebagai CDROM).</li>
<li>Selanjutnya USB flash sudah bisa di gunakan sebagai penganti Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Ribbon Live CD</li>
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<p>Semoga bermanfaat..!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Knoppix on a USB flash drive]]></title>
<link>http://luzidity.wordpress.com/?p=62</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lucidity</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to install the Knoppix 5.1.1 on my Sony 4GB flash drive with the following co]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I've been trying to install the Knoppix 5.1.1 on my Sony 4GB flash drive with the following configuration:<br />
(my flash drive mounts as sdb)</p>
<p>/dev/sdb1 - FAT16 &#60;750MB&#62; (partition with Knoppix on it)</p>
<p>/dev/sdb2 - ext2 &#60;250MB&#62; (partition for persistent image)</p>
<p>/dev/sdb3 - FAT32 &#60;~3GM&#62; (additional storage for Linux and WinD0Ze)</p>
<p>I've been following the instructions on this page:</p>
<p><a title="USB KNOPPIX 5.1.1 persistent install from Linux" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/02/20/installing-usb-knoppix-51-using-linux/">USB KNOPPIX 5.1.1 persistent install from Linux</a></p>
<p>and this page:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Bootable_USB_Key" target="_blank">Bootable USB Key</a></p>
<p>(or at least a hybrid of the two documents)</p>
<p>So far. . . .no luck.  I'm going to try it again on my 1GB flash drive for proof of concept since i have had other linux distros on it using syslinux.  If this works, then i'll have to figure out what's preventing it from working on the 4GB flash drive.</p>
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<p>Live Linux به‌گونه‌ای از توزیع‌های لینوكس اطلاق می‌شود كه از روی سی‌دی قابل اجرا هستند و شما احتیاجی به نصب آن‌ها برروی سیستم خود ندارید. شما می‌توانید با یك Live CD لینوكس از تمامی امكانات و ویژگی‌ها و برنامه‌های كاربردی منبع‌باز و سیستم‌عامل لینوكس استفاده كنید بدون این‌كه تنظیمات سیستم را عوض كنید و یا سیستم‌عامل‌های موجود برروی سیستم دچار اخلال شوند.</p>
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<p>این سی‌دی‌های Bootable به‌صورت خودكار پس از قرارگرفتن در درایو CD و بوت شدن سیستم اجرا شده، اقدام به شناسایی سخت‌افزار نموده و با استفاده از حافظه RAM برروی سیستم اجرا می‌شوند، به‌طوری كه یك سیستم‌عامل كامل دارید و می‌توانید با برنامه‌های كاربردی خود در تعامل باشید. به علت ماهیت ذاتی CDهای زنده (حجم كم، اجرای موقت در حافظه، سبك و كاربردی بودن) سعی می‌شود كه هر توزیع سی‌دی Live برمحوریك ویژگی و قابلیت یا توانایی كاربردی شكل گیرد. همچنین عموماً همه توزیع‌های مشهور از یك یا چند سی‌دی Live بهره می‌برند و هر سی‌دی Live مبتنی بر یك توزیع است و از برنامه‌ها و فایل‌های آن توزیع استفاده می‌كند. یك قابلیت مهم CDهای زنده امكان بومی كردن آنان است. بدین معنی كه همه می‌تواند با استفاده از یك هسته مشترك و برمبنای یك توزیع خاص اقدام به تولید و انتشار یك توزیع سی‌دی Live امكانات موردنظر خود بنمایند اكنون كمتر كشوری وجود دارد كه از چند توزیع سی‌دی Live مخصوص خود استفاده نكند. هم‌اكنون در كشورمان نیز دو توزیع &#60;شبدیكس&#62; و &#60;پارسیكس&#62; وجود دارند، كه در مقاله به آن‌ها اشاره خواهیم داشت. سرزمینCD‌های زنده سرزمینی كشف نشده برای كاربران عمومی، حرفه‌ای‌ها و كارشناسان و متخصصان رشته‌های كامپیوتری است. من در این مقاله سعی كرده‌ام از هر مجموعه و خانواده CD‌های زنده معروف‌ترین و پركاربردترین آن‌ها را انتخاب و معرفی كنم كه مجموعاً با معرفی دو سی‌دی Live ایرانی تعداد آن‌ها به بیست CD زنده رسید. امیدوارم كه این مقاله فقط سرآغازی برای حركت شما به سوی سرزمینCDهای زنده باشد.<br />
۱ - لینوكس بدون نصب<br />
اولین خصیصه بارز تمامCDهای زنده قابلیت اجرای لینوكس بدون نیاز به نصب است. شما بدون این‌كه كمترین دغدغه‌ای داشته باشید می‌توانید لینوكس را تجربه كنید، برنامه‌های ارایه شده همراه آن را ببینید و آن‌ها را آزمایش كنید و از جذابیت‌های لینوكس لذت ببرید. اگر تاكنون تجربه‌ای با لینوكس نداشته‌اید و تازه كار هستید با Knoppix (بخوانید: ناپیكس) شروع كنید. ‌CDهای Live ناپیكس جزء بهترین توزیع‌های لینوكسی است كه مبتنی بر توزیع معروف Debian GNU/Linux است و همراه محیط گرافیكی KDE و برنامه‌های كاربردی معروف لینوكس همچون OpenOffice ،Gaim ،Konqueror ،Mozill و برنامه‌های سرویس‌دهنده Apache ،PHP ،My SQL و بسیاری برنامه‌های متنوع دیگر ارایه می‌شود. توزیع Knoppix خود یك مبنا برای بسیاری ازCDهای زنده دیگر است كه در ادامه معرفی خواهیم كرد. قدرت پایداری و انعطاف‌پذیری ناپیكس به همراه مجموعه‌ای از كاملترین نرم‌افزارهای منبع‌باز به‌روز شده از این توزیع جلوه‌ای خاص ساخته است و طرفداران بی‌شماری دارد.<br />
۲-Slax، بهترین انتخاب در دسكتاپ<br />
آیا دوست دارید به جای داشتن یك سیستم‌عامل برروی كامپیوتر یا لپ‌تاپ خود كه فضای بسیاری از حافظه كامپیوتر شما را هم اشغال می‌كند آن را در جیب خود همیشه همراه داشته باشید؟ توزیع سی‌دی Live Slax چنین امكانی را به شما می‌دهد. Slax یك سی‌دی ۱۵۸Live مگابایتی مبتنی بر توزیع Slaxkware است كه بهترین انتخاب برای استفاده در كارهای روزانه بر روی كامپیوترهای خانگی و دسكتاپ است. Slax یك توزیع كوچك، سریع، جذاب با انبوهی از برنامه‌های رومیزی است كه به‌دنبال هر نرم‌افزار رومیزی كه باشید آن را درSlax خواهید یافت. Slax از رابط گرافیكی KDE استفاده می‌كند. شما می‌توانید سی‌دی Live Slax را تهیه كنید و همیشه همراه خود داشته باشید و بر روی هر كامپیوتر در كمتر از یك دقیقه لینوكس را اجرا و كارهای جاری خود را پیگیری كنید. به این طریق یك سیستم‌عامل قابل حمل خواهید داشت!<br />
۳ - یك دیسك زنده‌ای برای بازیابی داده‌ها<br />
همانطور كه گفتم هر سی‌دی Live بر محور یك كاربرد اساسی شكل گرفته است. System Recur یك توزیع مخصوص بازیابی داده‌ها و عملیات‌های ترمیم و اصلاح اطلاعات است. این توزیع مجموعه‌ای كامل از ابزارها و یوتیلیتی‌ها برای بازگرداندن اطلاعات یك سیستم Crash كرده است.GNU Parted،Qt parted ،Partimag ، ابزارهای فایل‌سیستم،Backupگیری و Sfdisk بخشی از این مجموعه امكانات هستند كه در یك سی‌دیBootable ارایه می‌شوند و شما می‌توانید به آسانی و در هر شرایطی از آن استفاده كنید و به داد داده‌ها و اطلاعات حیاتی خود برسید! این توزیع كاملاً با خانواده كامپیوترهای ۸۶ X سازگار است و از تمامی فایل سیستم‌ها از جمله NTFS پشتیبانی می‌كند. حتی می‌توانید از این توزیع برای رفع خرابی ویندوز هم استفاده كنید و پارتیشن‌ها و اطلاعات خودتان را نجات دهید.<br />
۴- Mepis، اول آزمایش بعد نصب‌<br />
CDهای زنده زیادی هستند كه این امكان را به شما می‌دهند كه ابتدا گشت‌وگذاری در توزیع موردنظر داشته باشید، برنامه‌های ارایه شده همراه توزیع را ببینید و قابلیت‌ها و جلوه‌هایی كه دنبالشان هستید را بسنجید و اگر خواستید آنگاه این توزیع از لینوكس را بر روی سیستم نصب كنید. Mepis یكی از این توزیع‌هاست كه می‌توانید ابتدا آن را بر روی سیستم اجرا كنید و در صورت تمایل به وسیله فایل نصاب، آن را برروی سیستم نصب كنید. Mepis یك توزیع پایدار، قدرتمند و پركاربرد است كه مبتنی بر توزیع دبیان و KDE می‌باشد. از امكانات گفتنی این توزیع، امكان نصب از سیستم راه‌دور(Remote Installation) و به‌كارگیری Mepis در شبكه‌های DLS ،Wireless ،Dialup وLan است.<br />
۵ - بانك برنامه‌های رومیزی‌<br />
PC Linux OS یك توزیع مبتنی برMandrake است كه مخصوص سخت‌افزار كامپیوترهای رومیزی تهیه شده است با بیش از ۲ گیگابایت برنامه كاربردی موردنیاز یك كاربر رومیزی غنی شده است. هر نامی را كه در دنیای منبع‌باز به گوشتان خورده باشد را درPC Linux OS خواهید یافت. Xserver ،KDE ،Open Office ،Thunderbird ،FireFox ،P۲P ،Gaim و بسیاری برنامه كاربردی كه عموماً بروز شده و آخرین نسخه می‌باشند، در مجموعه برنامه‌های كاربردی این توزیع جای دارند. Pc Linux OS از جدیدترین سخت‌افزارهای كامپیوترهای رومیزی نیز پشتیبانی به عمل می‌آورد و تقریباً برروی هر كامپیوتری اجرا می‌شود.<br />
۶-Austrami ، اگر پسورد ویندوز را فراموش كرده‌اید...<br />
یك توزیع ۵۰ مگابایتی مبتنی‌برSlackware با فهرست متنوعی از ابزارها و امكانات مختلف. اما مهمترین ویژگی این توزیع ارایه ابزاری برای كار با فایل ذخیره‌كننده پسورد ویندوز و سِت كردن پسورد ویندوز حتی در حالت مدیر سیستم (Administrator) و خارج از محیط ویندوز است. در واقع لینوكس نه‌تنها با ویندوز قهر نیست بلكه حتی مشكلاتش را هم می‌تواند برطرف كند. همیشه پنگوئن لینوكس نگاهی محبت‌آمیز به پروانه ویندوز داشته است!<br />
۷ - لینوكس در ویندوز<br />
بی‌شك یكی از جذاب‌ترین و لذت‌بخش‌ترین CDهای زنده توزیع Damn Small است. فایل ISO آن فقط ۵۰MB است. Damn Small این قابلیت را دارد كه آن را سفارشی كنید، یعنی خودتان با استفاده از تكنولوژی myDSL نرم‌افزارهای كاربردی موردنیاز را به توزیع اضافه كنید و آن‌ها را برروی پیكره لینوكس كامپایل و پیكربندی كنید، نرم‌افزارهایی مانند: FireFox و Open Office. اما این‌ها را فراموش كنید و به این توزیع توجه كنید. Damn Small یك فایل فشرده دارد كه می‌توانید در ویندوز این فایل را از حالت زیپ خارج كنید و لینوكس را در محیط ویندوز اجرا كنید. dsl-embedded.zip فایلی است كه كافیست در محیط ویندوز Extract شود. با كلیك بر روی فایل اجرایی از ویندوز به لینوكس سوییچ می‌كنید و دوباره به راحتی می‌توانید به ویندوز بر‌گردید. البته این كار شبیه‌سازی صرف نیست زیرا شما می‌توانید واقعاً از برنامه‌های Damn Small استفاده كنید.<br />
۸ - مالتی‌مدیا در لینوكس<br />
دوست دارید یك سی‌دی كامل شامل متنوع‌ترین ابزارهای مالتی‌مدیا داشته باشید؟ علاوه برآن این سی‌دی همه جا با شما باشد و برروی هر كامپیوتر قابل اجرا؟ Movix را تهیه كنید. فرمت‌هایAVI ،MPG ،QuickTime ،WMV ، ۳MP،ASF ،VORBIS/O GG ،Divx وXDiv مهمترین فرمت فایل‌های صوتی تصویری هستند كه Movix برای آن‌ها ابزار پخش‌كننده ارایه می‌دهد. ابزار كار با CD و DVD و فایل‌های مالتی‌مدیا تحت وب، دیگر ویژگی Movix است. نسخه‌های eMovix و Movix۲ از این توزیع هم عرضه شده‌اند. دیگر توزیع سی‌دی Live مخصوص ابزارها و نرم‌افزارهای چندرسانه‌ای،Media Linux است. آنقدر برنامه‌های متنوع در این توزیع‌ها گنجانده شده كه با ویژگی‌ها و ظواهر متفاوت، هر مشتاقی را سیراب خواهد كرد!<br />
۹- Morphix ، هدیه منبع‌باز به دوستداران بازی<br />
برای دوستداران بازی‌های رایانه‌ای هم سی‌دیLive داریم. یك سی‌دی كامل بازی كامپیوتری تحت لینوكس. كجا این همه برنامه سرگرمی و تفریحی را یك‌جا بر روی یك سی‌دی سراغ دارید؟ Morphix این ویژگی را دارد و هیچ نیازی نیست شما طرفدار منبع‌باز و لینوكس باشید تا از این بازی‌ها لذت ببرید.ویندوزی‌ها فرض كنند كه یك سی‌دی شامل صدها برنامه بازی جذاب و رنگارنگ داریم كه برروی یك پلتفرم خاص ارایه شده‌اند. Morphix در قالب یك پروژه برای ساختن و تغییرCDهای زنده مبتنی بر دبیان است كه یكی از این CDهای زنده مجموعه‌ای از بهترین بازی‌های كامپیوتری ارایه‌‌شده در سه محیط گرافیكی KDE Gnome و Light GUL است.</p>
<p>۱۰- ویروس‌یابINSERT<br />
این سی‌دی Live مبتنی بر توزیع ناپیكس است و شامل انواع ابزارها و برنامه‌ها برای كاربران اختصاصی CDهای زنده می‌باشد. ابزارهای كار با فرمت فایل‌ها، نرم‌افزارهای RAID و LVM ، برنامه آنالیز شبكه، نرم‌افزارهای شناسایی كارت شبكه و كار با سرور و كلاینت‌های شبكه و چند ابزار مفید و جالب دیگر. اما معروفیت Insert برای ارایه ابزارهای ویروس‌یاب در كامپیوتر و شبكه‌های خانگی است. Clam Antivirus ابزار جستجو در سیستم برای ویروس است كه همراه این توزیع ارایه می‌شود. Rootkithunter ، chkrootkit و چند ابزار كوچك دیگر در كنار هم موجب شده‌اند كه Insert یك سی‌دی Live برای استفاده‌های امنیتی و دفاعی باشد.<br />
۱۱- تجربه‌ای درFreeBSD<br />
در میان این همه CDهای Live، حیف بود اگر محصولی برای سیستم‌های خانواده BSD وجود نداشت. اما طرفدارانBSD ومخصوصاً FreeBSD نگران نباشند. FreeSBIE دیسك زنده‌ای از FreeBSD۵.۳ است كه همراه برنامه‌های كاربردی سیستم‌عامل‌هایBSD مانند برنامه‌های چت، اینترنت، مالتی‌مدیا، بازی و برنامه‌های كاربردی دیگر ارایه شده است. به گفته سایت اینترنتی این توزیع اگر FreeSBIE را از طریق سی‌دی Bootable اجرا كنید، هرگز متوجه نخواهید شد كه با سیستم‌عامل ۳.۵ FreeBSD كار نمی‌كنید.<br />
۱۲ - دیسك زنده‌ای برای نمایش پروژه‌های تحت وب<br />
شاید تصور كنید كه CDهای زنده به‌علت ماهیت آنان و حذف فایل‌ها و پروسه‌های اضافی از توزیع، توانایی چندانی در كاربردهای سرویس‌دهندگی نداشته باشند. اما Lammppix نقض‌كننده این تصور است و یك سی‌دی Live مخصوص كار با سرویس‌دهنده‌ها و برنامه‌های سرور تحت وب را معرفی می‌كند. Lammppix غالباً در وب سرورها اجرا می‌شود و به شما اجازه می‌دهد كه با پروژه‌های تحت وب در تعامل باشید، اسكریپت‌های perl را مشاهده كنید یا نمایش‌هایPHP را پیگیری كنید و یا برنامه‌های MySQL یا Apache را اجرا كنید. این سی‌دی Live مبتنی برKnoppix وDamn Small می‌باشد و در یك نگاه برنامه‌هایMySQL ،Apache ،Postgre ،PHP ،Perl و برنامه سرور مخصوصXAMPP را در LAMMpix خواهید یافت. خلاصه یك ابزار مدیریتی كامل برای وب سرور فقط در یك سی‌دی با انبوهی ویژگی منحصربه‌فرد جمع شده است.<br />
۱۳- Sentinjx ، سی‌دی Live ایجاد كلاستر<br />
یك سی‌دی Live و یا بهتر بگوییم یك سیستم‌عامل كامل برای پیگیری، ایجاد و كاربرد كلاسترهای لینوكس. مرور نرم‌افزارهای موجود درSentinix خود گویای توانایی و قابلیت این سی‌دی Live و كاربردهای آن است:<br />
Nagios ،Nagat ،Snort ،Snortcenter ،ACID ،Cacti ،Nessus ،Mail Scnner ،Postfix ،RRD Tool ،Spam Assassin ،MySQL ،PHP ،Perl ،Python ،Apache و ابزارهایی دیگر كه بردن نامشان از حوصله خارج است. تنوع نرم‌افزارها گویای كاركرد این سی‌دی Live است. نرم‌افزارهای مبارزه اسپم، ساخت و تغییر در كلاستر سرویس‌دهنده و بازرسی پروسه‌های فعال تنظیم‌شده در این توزیع موجود هستند. همچنین این توزیع از محیط گرافیكی Gnome برای برنامه‌های گرافیكی خود استفاده می‌كند.<br />
۱۴ - برای طرفداران Gnome<br />
Ubuntu یك نام آفریقایی و به معنای &#60;تفسیر روح انسانیت&#62; است. یك سی‌دی Live مبتنی بر دبیان وDebian Sarge ویژگی این توزیع استفاده از محیط گرافیكی Gnome و برنامه‌های كاربردی تحت این محیط است و از KDE و برنامه‌های این محیط خبری نیست. اگر به محیط Gnome عادت دارید این توزیع محبوب شما خواهد بود. Ubuntu یك سی‌دی Live كامل است و كلیه برنامه‌هایی را كه نیاز دارید را در خود دارد. ابزارهای گرافیكی، مالتی‌مدیا، چندرسانه‌ای، اینترنت، برنامه‌های اداری و مدیریتی این توزیع به سرعت روزآمد می‌شود و از پایداری، سریع الاجرا بودن و سبكی سود می‌برد.<br />
۱۵- Berry Linux ، توزیع مبتنی بر فدورا<br />
این هم یك توزیع برای كاربران ردهت و Fedora CoreBerry یك توزیع نورسیده در دنیای CDهای زنده است و از توزیع FedoraCore،RedHat۳ و Knoppix۳.۶ استفاده می‌كند. اگر خواستید كه این توزیع را برای استفاده همیشگی برروی سیستم نصب كنید به ۱/۷۵ گیگابایت فضا نیاز دارید. اگر یك توزیع جمع‌وجور با بهترین و جدیدترین نرم‌افزارها می‌خواهید Berry می‌تواند یك انتخاب مناسب باشد. Kernel۲.۶.۹ ، Openoffice۱.۱.۳، KDE۲.۳.۳، GIMP۲.۲.۲ ، FireFox۱.۰، Mplayer۱.۰، gce۳.۴.۱ و X.org۲.۳.۴ از مهمترین نرم‌افزارهای همراه Berray هستند. نسخه ۰.۵۲ این توزیع در ۱۹ دسامبر ۲۰۰۴ منتشر شده است.<br />
۱۶- ابزار نرم‌افزاری شبكه‌ای<br />
Live CD Router یك سی‌دی Live برای مسیریابی و تقسیم‌بندی پهنای باند در شبكه‌های بی‌سیم ،LAN ،DSL ،T۱،Dial up ،ISDN و اتصالات شبكه‌ای خطوط كابلی است. شما می‌توانید از این توزیع به‌عنوان یك فایروال در شبكه‌های بی‌سیم یا یك Access point در شبكه‌های بی‌سیم استفاده كنید. هیچ نیازی به نصب ندارید و فقط كافیست كه سی‌دی Live CD Router را داشته باشید. تنظیم DHCP برروی ماشین سرویس‌دهنده یا كلاینت، یك فیلتركننده براساسNAT ، یك تسهیم‌كننده پهنای باند برای كارت‌های بی‌سیم، ابزار احراز هویت، پشتیبانی از انواع كارت‌های شبكه مانند اترنت، WiFi ،PCI و USB از جمله توانایی‌های این توزیع هستند. این سی‌دی Live شاید اوج توانایی‌های یك توزیع باشد كه به‌صورت Live CD عرضه گردیده است. حقیقتاً یك مدیر سیستم یا مدیر ارشد شبكه می‌تواند از آن به عنوان ابزار كارآمدی برای نیازهای خود استفاده كند.<br />
۱۷- Sentry Firewall<br />
یك فایروال مجموعه CDهای زنده با یك سی‌دی Live با ویژگی و امكانات كاربری یك دیوار آتش كامل می‌شود. چند مجموعه از CDهای زنده این خصوصیت را دارند اما Sentry كاملترین آن‌هاست. این توزیع به آسانی یك فایروال، سرور و یك IDS را برروی سیستم پیاده‌سازی می‌كند. پیكربندی ساده و سریع برای هر سیستم‌عامل دیگر مزیت جالب sentry است. پیش‌فرض sentry كرنل ۴/۲ لینوكس است اما برای كامل كردن امكانات خود از پكیج‌های كرنل۲/۲ مانند penwall هم استفاده می‌كند. این توزیع برای اجرای خودكار از syslinux استفاده می‌كند. به‌غیراز openwall از سایر بسته‌های امنیتی مانند Strong Swan ،Ebtales ،WLAN Linux و MPPE استفاده شده است.<br />
۱۸- خودتان برنامه‌ها را اضافه كنید<br />
یكی دیگر از CDهای زنده جذاب Linspire است. یك سی‌دی Live مبتنی بر دبیان است و تمام ویژگی‌ها و خصوصیت‌های یك سیستم‌عامل كامل را دارد. خصوصیت ممتاز Linspire در استفاده از تكنولوژی ClickNRun است. CNR سیستمی برای نصب نرم‌افزارها به سادگی و آسانی برروی Linspire است. شما فقط با زدن یك كلیك می‌توانید نرم‌افزاری را انتخاب، نصب و اجرا كنید.<br />
۱۹- شبدیكس، یك توزیع ایرانی<br />
همانند بسیاری از كشورها چند سالی است كه ایران هم لینوكس را به‌عنوان سیستم‌عامل ملی معرفی و مجموعه‌های متعددی جهت فارسی‌سازی آن یا افزودن امكانات به آن مشغول فعالیت هستند و پروژه &#60;لینوكس ملی ایران&#62; را شروع كرده است. شبدیكس كه اكنون نسخه ۹/۰ آن منتشر شده یك سی‌دی Live مبتنی بر Knoppix و توزیع Debian GNU/Linux است و با رابط ‌Farsi KDE می‌باشد. وقتی شما شبدیكس را برروی سیستم اجرا می‌كنید شاید از كندی اجرای برنامه، فونت نامناسب و كلمات ترجمه شده غریبه و نامأنوس كمی گیج شوید ولی در عوض یك محیط گرافیكی فارسی می‌بینید، راهنمای فارسی برنامه‌ها را مشاهده خواهید كرد و همه‌چیز بوی فارسی و ایرانی بودن را می‌دهد و این لذتی خاص را به همراه دارد. در شبدیكس خواهید توانست كه برنامه‌های تحت KDE را اجرا و استفاده كنید و با یك رابط فارسی گشت‌وگذاری در دنیای نرم‌افزارهای منبع‌باز و لینوكس داشته باشید. شبدیكس توسط شركت چاپار شبدیز توزیع و حمایت می‌شود.<br />
۲۰- پارسیكس تازه متولد شده<br />
به‌تازگی خبر از تولد دومین سی‌دی Live و توزیع ایرانی در محافل لینوكسی به میان آمده و نسخه ۴۵/۰ پارسیكس منتشر گردیده است. در سایت رسمی این پروژه این‌گونه آمده است:<br />
پارسیكس یك سی‌دی Live مبتنی بر لینوكسKnoppix ،Debian sargeT است كه در آن Gnome به عنوان میزكار پیش‌گزینه استفاده شده و سعی بر آن بوده تا با حذف بسته‌های نرم‌افزاری اضافی، یك میزكار سبك با امكانات لازم در اختیار كاربران قرار داده شود. پارسیكس از صفحه كلید فارسی پشتیبانی كرده و می‌توانید در آن فارسی تایپ كنید. پارسیكس همچنین حاوی واژه‌نامه آزاد و باز متنی xFarDic است و قلم‌های رایگان و آزاد فارسی از پروژه‌هایFarsi Web و FPF استفاده می‌كند. نسخه ۴۵/۰ و اولین نسخه Parsix GNU/Linux در تاریخ ۱۳ بهمن‌ماه ۱۳۸۳ مصادف با ۲۵ ژانویه ۲۰۰۵ ارایه شده است. دیدن این سی‌دی Live ایرانی و استفاده از امكانات آن بی‌شك خالی از لطف نخواهد بود.</p>
<pre>منبع:ماهنامه شبکه</pre>
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<link>http://belhob.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/booting-linux-from-eprom/</link>
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<dc:creator>Bipin Gautam Taksande</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[This is a quick look at making Linux bootable from EPROM on a 486 single board computer.
This articl]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a HREF="http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/eprom/epromdsk.gif"><img ALIGN="right" HEIGHT="288" WIDTH="299" VSPACE="15" HSPACE="15" BORDER="0" SRC="http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/eprom/epromdsk.gif" /></a>This is a quick look at making Linux bootable from EPROM on a 486 single board computer.</p>
<p>This article describes one way to run Linux in an embedded system with no hard disk. The application described is an Operator Interface in a monitor and display system developed by Boeing Flight Test. The airborne environment requires something fairly rugged which can withstand common power interruptions. To meet these requirements we decided to build the operator interface without a hard disk.<br />
Overview</p>
<p>The basic concept includes booting from a solid state disk (SSD) in Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM), copying a root file system from EPROM to a RAM disk, loading the operator interface software from a host and executing it. This article focuses on the details of how the system works, and on development techniques used.</p>
<p>The hardware selected is a VME-based Single Board Computer (SBC) 80486 with 16M of RAM, a PC104 SSD cable of holding a 4Meg EPROM, and some other PC104 boards. This SBC has built in BIOS support for using the SSD. The system uses a programmable keyboard and a standard VGA display.<br />
System Operation</p>
<p>For booting, two options were considered:</p>
<ul>
<li></li>
<li>booting DOS, then running the loadlin program (to load Linux) from autoexec.bat</li>
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<li>installing LILO and booting Linux directly</li>
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<p>The advantage of the second option would be a slightly shorter boot time. However, we implemented the first option, because we wanted to use a programmable keyboard—the software for programming the keyboard runs under DOS.</p>
<p>A bit of kernel-hacking was needed to make the system work. The ramdisk.c code was changed to load from any block device, not just a floppy (see Listing 1, ramdisk.c). Also, a new block driver was written to read from the EPROM device (see Listing 2, epromdsk.c).</p>
<p>When deciding how to implement the EPROM device driver, the first idea was to create an image of a disk in the EPROM. This would provide a RAM disk of the same size as the EPROM, 3.5MB in this case (the DOS portion of the SSD takes 1/2 MB). Instead, to allow a larger RAM disk, a compressed disk image is used. The compression used is simple—any sectors which are identical are only stored once. The primary advantage this gives is blank areas of the disk image don't need to take up EPROM space. Listing 1 shows the SSD disk compression used.</p>
<p><strong>Links:</strong></p>
<p><a HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/0243">http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/0243</a></p>
<p><a HREF="http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/eprom/eprom.html">http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/eprom/eprom.html</a></p>
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<link>http://www.mafia.or.id/oprekan/macos/2007/11/06/how-to-create-a-bootable-backup-of-mac-os-x-cloning-mac-os-x-disks.html</link>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Introduction</p>
<p>Note: These instructions provide the command-line instructions for manual backups or clones. Carbon Copy Cloner follows the rules laid out below -- you do not need to follow any of these instructions if you use Carbon Copy Cloner.</p>
<p>There are a few basic rules that you need to follow when cloning a disk with Mac OS X System files in order to get a bootable clone:</p>
<p>   1. File permissions must be preserved.</p>
<p>      Many files belong to the root user, so you cannot simply copy these files from the Finder. There are other issues with permissions, such as the setuid bit (in English, that is a feature of a file that, when executed, gives the file or application<br />
      the same privileges as the owner of the file; if the owner of the file is root, then root privileges are granted during the execution of this file). Copying via the Finder sets the owner of the new files to the user that copied them and assigns a default set of permissions. Many applications and system files will not work properly with the default Finder settings.<br />
   2. The invisible Unix system files must be copied.</p>
<p>      Mac OS X is driven by a Unix flavored operating system called Darwin. Darwin system files reside at the root level of the derive in four folders: /private, /bin, /usr, and /sbin. These directories hold all the critical files that allow the computer to boot up and have basic functionality.<br />
   3. Unix-style links must be preserved.</p>
<p>      Symbolic links and hard links are different from the Mac aliases we are familiar with. Likewise, the way we deal with them will not be the same. Because there are some critical symbolic links on a Mac OS X disk, the integrity of these files must be preserved by the utility you use to clone/backup the disk. Some people are very familiar with the error upon booting that states "/etc/master.passwd: Not a directory". This is because the /etc symbolic link to /private/etc was broken.<br />
   4. Some directories are populated by the System after booting, and are thus unnecessary to preserve, however, although empty, they may still have to be present.</p>
<p>      Some directories are populated by the System. For example, the Volumes directory is populated with directories corresponding to the names of Volumes you have on your system. If you insert a Zip disk, a new directory in /Volumes is created with the name of the Zip disk. These directories are called "mountpoints", and are created "on-the-fly" by Apple's autodiskmount utility. Because these directories do not contain data on your boot volume, they do not need to be copied during a clone operation. The Volumes directory is just a placeholder (and the OS will recreate the Volumes directory on bootup, so it is unnecessary to recreate). The /dev directory is also a placeholder for system devices, such as disk drives, output devices, and communications devices. The list of devices in this directory is created each time the computer is booted up and when new hardware is added, so it is unnecessary (and a little difficult) to copy the items in this directory. Because this is a Unix system directory, however, you will not have a bootable volume unless this directory is recreated on the cloned disk. Creating an empty directory is sufficient. Likewise, it is important to backup mach_kernel (the most important file in the system), but "mach" and "mach.sym" are destroyed and recreated each boot by the /etc/rc boot script. Finally, the Network folder at the root level does not need to be backed up because it is populated by the System on startup.<br />
   5. Resource forks must be preserved</p>
<p>      While Apple is trying to move away from Resource Forks, there are still many applications and documents that use them. Because of this, any backup or cloning utility must preserve the resource forks. If you try to clone a Mac OS X disk without preserving resource forks, many of your personal documents will be damaged.</p>
<p>* Pre-flight checklist</p>
<p>   1. Make sure the "Ignore privileges on this volume" setting is not checked for your source or target volume (Note: this setting is called "Ignore ownership on this volume" in Jaguar). To check this setting, click on the target volume, choose "Show Info" or "Get Info" from the File menu in the Finder and select the Privileges menu (Jaguar: click the disclosure triangle next to ownership and permissions). Make sure the box at the bottom is NOT checked, otherwise permissions and ownership settings will not be preserved, no matter what tool you use to copy files.</p>
<p>   2. Run Disk Utility on the target and source volumes before cloning. This is not required, but is a good idea to avoid disk or directory-related problems during cloning. If you are cloning an operating system with ditto or asr, I recommend that you erase the drive with Disk Utility prior to cloning.</p>
<p>* Cloning a disk or backing up your drive with ditto, rsync, hdiutil and asr:</p>
<p>Ditto is a command-line utility that ships with Mac OS X. Ditto preserves permissions when run as root and preserves resource forks by default. Ditto can be used to clone your system with the following step:</p>
<p>sudo ditto -X / /Volumes/Backup</p>
<p>rsync can be used to make a bootable clone as well. In addition to basic file copying, rsync also offers the ability to synchronize the source and target volumes -- it can copy only the items that have changed, thus subsequent clones, or backups, are much faster. The syntax is pretty easy:</p>
<p>sudo rsync -xrlptgoEv --progress --delete / /Volumes/Backup</p>
<p>That will backup your entire drive, deleting anything from the target that is not on the source drive (synchronizing, that is). Rsync also preserves resource forks (that's what the "E" argument is for) and will give you a bootable backup just as well as ditto. Learn more about using rsync to regularly backup your drive to a remote machine.</p>
<p>While it doesn't give you a bootable clone, backing up to a disk image does offer flexibility in the location of your backup as well as backup portability -- your entire volume is located in a single file. Restoring from disk images is pretty easy as well, just mount the disk image and treat it like any other volume. Backing up a volume to a disk image (UDZO means a compressed disk image in this case) is simply done with this one command:</p>
<p>sudo hdiutil create /Volumes/Backup/mikes_laptop.dmg -format UDZO -nocrossdev -srcdir /</p>
<p>Finally, the ideal tool to use for creating bootable clones of your volumes is Apple Software Restore. Apple Software Restore, or asr, is also a command-line tool built-in to Mac OS X. While asr essentially functions like ditto in its file-copy mode, it also has the ability to clone a volume at the block level, preserving every last bit of data on the volume.</p>
<p>asr syntax for volume cloning is also pretty easy:</p>
<p>sudo asr -source / -target /Volumes/Backup -erase -noprompt</p>
<p>The "-erase" argument is optional, though recommended when cloning an operating system. Merged OSes are not usually very happy. To use asr in block-copy mode, you must be able to unmount both the source and target. That is, you can't block-copy your boot volume. Learn more about this in the CCC documentation about asr.<br />
* The Command-Line-Free version</p>
<p>I have developed a utility that encapsulates the power of asr and rsync and performs all the necessary steps to clone a drive. Download Carbon Copy Cloner here.<br />
* Disclaimer</p>
<p>These instructions require the use of command line utilities.  Using command line utilities without experience can have unpredictable consequences including loss of data. Please be mindful of this -- the author makes no claims to the fitness of these instructions, and makes no warranties explicit or implied to their effectiveness or safety.</p>
<p>Created July 11, 2001<br />
Updated for Mac OS 10.1 on November 4, 2001<br />
Updated on December 18, 2001 with general info and principles behind successful Mac OS X backups.<br />
Updated January 7, 2002: removed incorrect comment about ditto mishandling symbolic links<br />
Updated January 18, 2002: added info about hfspax, minor modifications to ditto instructions, and comment about resource forks<br />
Updated February 28, 2002: minor modifications, added info about blessing the target, added comments on unlocking files on source.</p>
<p>Updated March 17, 2002: corrected terminology about the setuid bit.</p>
<p>Updated October 9, 2002: Added disclaimer.</p>
<p>Updated January 25, 2007: Removed the overwhelming bulk of code, it's so much easier than it used to be. Also added rsync and asr alternatives.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Puppy Linux : Portable USB Linux]]></title>
<link>http://geeketto.com/2007/10/05/puppy-linux-portable-usb-linux/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>geeketto</dc:creator>
<guid>http://geeketto.com/2007/10/05/puppy-linux-portable-usb-linux/</guid>
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E’ stata rilasciata la release 3 di Puppy Linux, mini distribuzione Linux Slackware compatibile e]]></description>
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<p>E’ stata rilasciata la release 3 di Puppy Linux, mini distribuzione Linux Slackware compatibile e dal peso di appena 97MB con tempi di caricamento a dir poco eccezionali. Grazie alla compatibilità con Slackware , sarà possibile installare in Puppy pacchetti compatibili con questa distribuzione. Grazie alla sua ridotta dimensione, può essere facilmente installata su un CD-Rom bootable o una chiavetta USB. La distribuzione integra un desktop environment con la suite Mozilla Application, AbiWord, Sodipodi, Gnumeric, e Gxine/xine.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://puppylinux.org/user/downloads.php?cat_id=1&#38;download_id=60">Link per il download</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Put your thumb drive to work (updated)]]></title>
<link>http://techpaul.wordpress.com/2007/06/28/put-your-thumb-drive-to-work/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>techpaul</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I often use a specially configured USB &#8220;thumb drive&#8221; as my portable PC repair kit, and u]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I often use a specially configured USB "thumb drive" as my <strong>portable PC repair kit</strong>, and use it as an alternative to a "boot CD". I have made it "bootable" and loaded it with useful tools and repair applications (like an antivirus scanner). It has come in handy, from time to time. With the price of these drives being as affordable as they are, there's really no reason you cannot have a portable PC repair kit (on a stick) too.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Tip of the day:</span> Making yourself a toolkit-on-a-stick requires a couple of steps; first you must format it to make it bootable, and then you must load it with the tools and applications you think you will need -- if the thumb drive you're planning to use is small (say, 512MB), you will want to get the "portable", or "Lite", versions of these programs if they're available.</p>
<p>1) Make the drive bootable. The geekier (remember, I use "geek" as a compliment!) of you out there may be already familiar with the DOS utilty FDISK, and if you are and you still have a Windows 98 Install CD (or a Win 95 boot floppy) laying around, you can format the drive using the format /s command as outlined <a title="make a bootable td using FDISK" href="http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~shaher/Bootable_USB.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
If that doesn't fit your description, or you are going to use a larger thumb drive, I suggest you download and run (it is a Wizard, so you just follow the prompts) a tool offered by HP (the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool), which <em>should</em> do the work for you: get i<a href="http://techpaul.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/virtual-machines-and-you/" target="_blank">t</a> <a title="download the HP drive key utility" href="http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&#38;cc=us&#38;swItem=MTX-UNITY-I23839&#38;jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>2) Now that your thumb drive can be used to boot a machine, it's time to load it up with some useful programs and utilities. I started with the DOS tools FDISK, scandisk, and format. There is some debate amongst my fellow Tech Support-types as to which utilities are "must have's" (but we all agree on <em>some version of antivirus and anti-spyware</em>) and I'm not going to trouble you with that. Instead, I'm going to point you towards today's free link (below) and a wonderful pre-made suite of <strong>very handy</strong> portable applications, and suggest the addition of (my previously mentioned) HiJack This!</p>
<p>If you used the copy-the-system-files method (the "format /s") you will already have chkdsk and fdisk and a few others.. or if not, these can be added. If you are not going to install Portable Apps, I suggest you <em>do</em> install <a title="Download portable Firefox" href="http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable" target="_blank">Portable Firefox</a> (or similar Web browser) so that you can access the Internet, for downloading device drivers.</p>
<p>To make it more of a "repair kit" you can add: a Registry cleaner/fixer, such as <a title="download CCleaner here" href="http://www.ccleaner.com" target="_blank">CCleaner</a> and or <a title="download AMUST here" href="http://www.amustsoft.com/registrycleaner/" target="_blank">AMUST Registry Cleaner</a>, <a title="get Process Explorer here" href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx" target="_blank">Process Explorer</a>, and another anti-spyware like <a title="get Spybot here" href="http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html" target="_blank">Spybot Search&#38;Destroy</a>.</p>
<p><a title="old post=how to install program/thumb-drive" href="http://techpaul.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/how-to-install-a-program-on-your-thumb-drive/" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read my article on the steps for installing programs on thumb drives.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Today's free link:</span> <a title="Put your computer on a stick" href="http://portableapps.com/" target="_blank">Portable Apps</a>.com. This collection of portable application runs completely from the USB thumb drive. It has a Webbrowser, word processor, antivirus and more. Get started on the road to thumb drive power here.<br />
<strong>[Update:</strong> Bill Mullins has brought to my attention a program for running apps on your thumbdrive that seems superior to others I have mentioned. To read his review, <a title="Bill Mullins on MojoPack" href="http://billmullins.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/free-mojopac-freedom-portable-computing-on-a-usb-device/" target="_blank">click here</a>.<strong>]</strong></p>
<p>Copyright © 2007 Tech Paul. All rights reserved.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[How To: Make Your Flash Drive Bootable]]></title>
<link>http://sheehantu.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/how-to-make-your-flash-drive-bootable/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 08:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>syalam</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sheehantu.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/how-to-make-your-flash-drive-bootable/</guid>
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For those of us without an optical drive, life can be tough when you need to install somethi]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;">&#160;</p>
<p>For those of us without an optical drive, life can be tough when you need to install something during boot time. My CD-ROM drive is broken, so I was able to install Ubuntu off of a bootable flash drive. With USB sticks being so cheap these days its a perfect replacement for a non-functional optical drive. In any case, to make your flash drive bootable I used a utility called <a href="http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/23839.html">HP Drive Key Boot Utility</a>. It was developed by Hewlett Packard, and is very easy to use. The utility reformats your storage media and allows it to be bootable. I've tried it on both USB flash drives and external hard-drives. Take note that your BIOS needs to be able to support USB devices before you can boot from your newly formatted storage media.</p>
<p><strong>Download:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/23839.html">http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/23839.html </a></p>
<p>More precise instructions are available at this site as well. However, running the wizard step-by-step did the trick for me.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[GeeXboX]]></title>
<link>http://briankuo.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/open-media-center/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>briankuo</dc:creator>
<guid>http://briankuo.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/open-media-center/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[         GeeXboX is a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at         turning your computer i]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.geexbox.org/en/index.html" title="GeeXboX"><strong>         GeeXboX</strong></a> is a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at         turning your computer into a so called HTPC (Home Theater PC)         or Media Center. Being a standalone LiveCD-based distribution,         it's a ready to boot operating system than works on any         Pentium-class x86 computer or PowerPC Macintosh, implying no software         requirement. You can even use it on a diskless computer, the         whole system being loaded in RAM.</p>
<p>Despite his tiny ISO image size, the distribution comes with a         complete and automatic hardware detection, not requiring any         driver to be added. It supports playback of nearly any kind of         audio/video and image files and all known codecs and         containers are shipped in, allowing playing them through         various physical supports, either being CD, DVD, HDD, LAN or         Internet.</p>
<p><strong>GeeXboX</strong> <strong>1.1 supports my LifeView FlyVideo WDV TV Tunner.</strong></p>
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<link>http://briankuo.wordpress.com/2006/11/10/6/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>briankuo</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/" title="Ubuntu">Ubuntu</a></strong><strong> </strong>is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. It is developed by a large community and we invite you to participate too!</p>
<p>The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.</p>
<p>These freedoms make Ubuntu fundamentally different from traditional proprietary software: not only are the tools you need available free of charge, you have the right to modify your software until it works the way you want it to.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[KNOPPIX]]></title>
<link>http://briankuo.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/knoppix/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>briankuo</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Lin]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html" title="KNOPPIX">KNOPPIX</a></strong> is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a productive Linux system for the desktop, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it (over 8GB on the DVD "Maxi" edition).</p>
<p><strong>Knoppix 4.0.2 is the only distribution so far which supports my LifeView FlyVideo WDV TV Tunner.</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[SLAX]]></title>
<link>http://briankuo.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/slax/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>briankuo</dc:creator>
<guid>http://briankuo.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/slax/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SLAX 是一套內含 Linux 作業系統的迷你型可開機光碟，即一般所稱的 Live CD。]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://slax.linux-live.org/" title="SLAX" target="_blank">SLAX</a></strong> 是一套內含 Linux 作業系統的迷你型可開機光碟，即一般所稱的 Live CD。您可以利用該光碟直接使用 Linux 而不需進行任何的安裝手續。這套 Live CD 是以 Slackware Linux  發行套件為基底所發展且您可在我們網站取得 ISO 影像檔。所有的 Script 與原始檔 都開放下載供有興趣的玩家來建置屬於您自己適合的 Live CD。</p>
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<title><![CDATA[I’m sick of Windows – And not the glass kind.]]></title>
<link>http://tektrekgamer.wordpress.com/2006/06/04/i%e2%80%99m-sick-of-windows-%e2%80%93-and-not-the-glass-kind/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sebastian Prooth</dc:creator>
<guid>http://tektrekgamer.wordpress.com/2006/06/04/i%e2%80%99m-sick-of-windows-%e2%80%93-and-not-the-glass-kind/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I am so sick of crashing, lockups, f*ck-ups and just the general irritation that goes with running W]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">I am so sick of crashing, lockups, f*ck-ups and just the general irritation that goes with running Windows on a daily basis. For even the most normal of tasks such as writing this blog entry in MS Word, I have the constant fear of something giving in, a memory leak or an illegal operation. What? Illegal? My computer traffics drugs now?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://kubuntu.com"><img src="http://tektrekgamer.wordpress.com/files/2006/06/kubuntu.png" alt="KDE Kubuntu 5.10" align="left" /></a>In the last few months on more than one occasion I have considered moving to a Linux system.  And in the last month I have tried to get <a href="http://kubuntu.com">Kubuntu</a> 5.10 working and was unable to tackle certain challenges while trying to get it to work as &#8220;seamlessly&#8221; as Windows XP. I finally got to installing Kubuntu on one of my main SATA drives this last week with the help of a Linux guru. We overcame the massive obstacle of being unable to get the sound to work. It seems my Sound Card is not supported so we have reverted to using the onboard sound on my motherboard.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I worked with my guru for almost 24 hours until last night when everything seemed to fall into place. I am not a command line geek, in fact calling me a <b>geek </b>is extremely risqu&#233; because I am not a geek. I am more of an <i>enthusiastic power user</i>.  But I got linux working, and I am now able to use the terminal to tell it to install programs with the &#8220;Sudo apt-get install&#8221; command. This really made me shout for joy and when I was able to get my DVD playback working and overcome yet another obstacle of the playback being too dark to see what Captain Janeway and Tuvok were actually doing on the bridge of the Voyager I was free to move onto the next step.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I made use of an excellent script that everyone is talking about, it is called <a href="http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/">EasyUbuntu</a> and it is a script that allows you to install everything that you need to run such as DVDs, MP3 support ZIP archive support and more. This is really helpful because like I said, I am an enthusiastic power user, not a command line geek! I am feeling like a little XP-rogue. I am not saying that the way I have Kubuntu running right now is more stable than Windows, but it has the potential to be and it does not feel like it is going to totally die in the ass all the time.  When it does, killing the application usually gets you back out of the hotwater as quickly as you fell in.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>I have never been very good with the whole partitioning thing&#8230;.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As some know I lost a Hard Drive while attempting to get Linux to work about 3 months ago. It was during the process of a linux attempt that the hard drive actually died. The drive was practically new being less than a full year old and I was really worried about trying to install Linux on my replacement drive. Well I put it on my second drive this time, a SATA 2 disk and it worked just fine, EXT3 Journaling and a Swap partition of a gig. So far nothing has died and I am quite happy with the performance with the SATA Drives.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So Linux is working and I still have my Windows XP partition for when I want to fuck up what I am working on or use a programme that hasn&#8217;t got a linux version.  If I could run all the Windows programmes and keep it really stable I would see no reason to maintain a Windows installation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you want to find out more in the technical side of install Kubuntu go to their website or hit <a href="http://google.com">Google</a>. There are loads of blog entries, wikis and websites devoted to helping people who just do not have a clue like me!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you are planning to install Linux I would suggest if you have no experience yet you find someone who can help you, buy a book and run the Live CD of the version you want to try before you do any drive partitioning. A Live-CD is a bootable version of the operating system that runs off your DVD-ROM and in RAM. It does not change anything you have stored on your PC or MAC. And when you decide to go ahead and install a real version I would suggest you make a full backup of your data before you do so. Invest in a good partitioning programme like <a href="http://partitionmagic.com">Partition Magic 8</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Have fun with Linux! Comments are welcome.</p>
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