Mandriva 2011 + linux-live.org = MagOS Linux
Posted: 31 March 2012, 15:56
Hello everybody!
Let me represent for you're testing Mandriva based Live system.
It assembled from repositories MIB EduMandriva Mandriva_official
It's 100% Mandriva (well, may be 99%). Name MagOS chosen to avoid Mandriva license violations.
Features
- Can be live system. Can be like ordinary linux installation with saving changes
- Can be booted from CD, DVD, USB, HDD (even from ntfs partition), PXE-server
- Consist of several modules. Most of modules can be removed to reduce size
- It's linux-live based, so fully supports slax' features (copy2ram for example)
- There are 3 DE included into MagOS: KDE, Gnome, LXDE
- There are many applications for many tasks (libreoffice. gimp, inkscape, avidemux, mplayer, wine, virtualbox and many others)
- The size is about 1GB.
- MagOS supports all of languages. Only English and Russian included into MagOS. Others can be downloaded from http://magos.sibsau.ru/repository/netlive/2011/MagOS/optional/international/
- Can be extended by yours modules (like a slax)
How to download
- visit http://torrents.magos-linux.ru/
- get MagOS_2011_2012xxyy.tar.gz.torrent
- download MagOS_2011_2012xxyy.tar.gz
- extract MagOS_2011_2012xxyy.tar.gz
How to install
- under root mount your USB Flash drive (mkdir /mnt/tmp ; mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/tmp).
Mounting via graphical tools not recommended because device will be mounted with 'noexec' option.
- copy contents of MagOS_2011_2012xxyy folder to USB Flash
- cd to /mnt/tmp/boot/grub4dos/install.lin
- under root launch script bootinst_mbr.sh
How to set up English on default
- Edit file MagOS-Data/MagOS.ini. Uncomment strings in sections [/etc/sysconfig/i18n] [/etc/sysconfig/keyboard] [/usr/share/magos/kde4/share/config/kdm/kdmrc]
How to set up Italian on default
- Download http://magos.sibsau.ru/repository/netlive/2011/MagOS/optional/international/81-int-it.xzm
- Place it to /MagOS/base folder (or MagOS-Data/modules)
I hope you'll enjoy this system. It helps me everywhere.
Please tell some in this topic about you testing. It's major for us!
PS English isn't my native, so please be tolerant to me.
Let me represent for you're testing Mandriva based Live system.
It assembled from repositories MIB EduMandriva Mandriva_official
It's 100% Mandriva (well, may be 99%). Name MagOS chosen to avoid Mandriva license violations.
Features
- Can be live system. Can be like ordinary linux installation with saving changes
- Can be booted from CD, DVD, USB, HDD (even from ntfs partition), PXE-server
- Consist of several modules. Most of modules can be removed to reduce size
- It's linux-live based, so fully supports slax' features (copy2ram for example)
- There are 3 DE included into MagOS: KDE, Gnome, LXDE
- There are many applications for many tasks (libreoffice. gimp, inkscape, avidemux, mplayer, wine, virtualbox and many others)
- The size is about 1GB.
- MagOS supports all of languages. Only English and Russian included into MagOS. Others can be downloaded from http://magos.sibsau.ru/repository/netlive/2011/MagOS/optional/international/
- Can be extended by yours modules (like a slax)
How to download
- visit http://torrents.magos-linux.ru/
- get MagOS_2011_2012xxyy.tar.gz.torrent
- download MagOS_2011_2012xxyy.tar.gz
- extract MagOS_2011_2012xxyy.tar.gz
How to install
- under root mount your USB Flash drive (mkdir /mnt/tmp ; mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/tmp).
Mounting via graphical tools not recommended because device will be mounted with 'noexec' option.
- copy contents of MagOS_2011_2012xxyy folder to USB Flash
- cd to /mnt/tmp/boot/grub4dos/install.lin
- under root launch script bootinst_mbr.sh
How to set up English on default
- Edit file MagOS-Data/MagOS.ini. Uncomment strings in sections [/etc/sysconfig/i18n] [/etc/sysconfig/keyboard] [/usr/share/magos/kde4/share/config/kdm/kdmrc]
How to set up Italian on default
- Download http://magos.sibsau.ru/repository/netlive/2011/MagOS/optional/international/81-int-it.xzm
- Place it to /MagOS/base folder (or MagOS-Data/modules)
I hope you'll enjoy this system. It helps me everywhere.
Please tell some in this topic about you testing. It's major for us!
PS English isn't my native, so please be tolerant to me.