Mandrivaseed is a
simple procedure script, you can do the same with command "dd"
Instead od mandrivaseed you can use
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dd if=/path/mandriva-one-xxx.iso of=/dev/sdx
MIB LiveToFlash, as in in its name, has been made for putting a Mandriva One Live or a compatible iso into a Flash stick, to obtain something similar to a commercial product called
Mandriva Flash, but completely free!
Mandriva Flash is inside a 8 Giga Flash stick, give a look
A complete mobile 3D desktop on a 8GB USB key.
MIB LiveToFlash is the only existing free tool permitting you to prepare:
- A live OS (Mandriva One) into ram (in a compressed squash loop file) with all the contents of ISO
- A persistent partition, (in another compressed squash loop file) for root and home, so you can save you prefs, add your repos, install a few preferite apps, and you'll find when you reboot
- A shared partition, for which you can choose filesystem between fat32, ntfs, ext3, ext4
You can look even look at the source, it's very complex plain open text with zenity commands for the GUI
To view livetoflash source code:
The limits we put, are not for inflexibility, but for limits inside tecnical things:
- syslinux can make a working boot only from a fat32 partition
- a compressed file into a fat32 can't be greater than 4Gb (precisely 4088Mb) for a fat32bit limit:
- so max persistent partition (not volatile) can't be absolutely greater than 4088Mbytes
- ecc.
We made hundreds of attempts before find limits, so used at the best all the max possible values,
so before speaking about, I suggest to you, it's even better to know more how the things work...
The program is GPL, so if you are able making some useful mods you can collaborate:
and you can made it more flexible...
You have to send us mods, so we can publish a new version, adding also your credits
bye, NicCo