FullMonty-DVD: installation and maintenance

[linuxpcplus]

Go into system settings>>workspace behavior. Under layout, change the number of desktops. Alternatively, you could rename the games desktop, then configure it witht he widgets or icons you want.

[Steve6375]

Thanks for putting this extended version of PCLinuxOS together and making it available for download.

Have been using Fullmonty 2010v11 on a 8gb usb.also many variants of Pclos for many years.

All have giving me great pleasure to use and learn from.

Used MultiBootISOs-2.1.5.0.exe from http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ to instal and boot directly from iso on usb drive.

Seems to work quite well on various pc/laptops,may struggle if 512mb memory or less of course.
See below copy of menu.lst of Grub4dos

default 0
timeout 30
color NORMAL HIGHLIGHT HELPTEXT HEADING
splashimage=/splash.xpm.gz
foreground=FFFFFF
background=000000

# Suggested by Erhan Sohail
title Boot First Hard Drive (HDD)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
map --hook
chainloader (hd0)+1
rootnoverify (hd0)

title Restart
reboot

title Shutdown
halt

title --- Custom MultiBoot Entries ---
root

title PCLinuxOS
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /pclinuxos.iso
map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 /pclinuxos.iso (0xff)
map --hook
root (0xff)
kernel (0xff)/isolinux/vmlinuz fromusb bootfromiso=/pclinuxos.iso livecd=livecd root=/dev/rd/3 acpi=on vga=788 keyb=en vmalloc=256M edd=off
initrd (0xff)/isolinux/initrd.gz
map --unhook
map --unmap=0:0xff

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ just recently added PCLinuxOS to their supported boot.iso
list and I am very happy about that.
Hope this is of interest for you.
Cheers Bmad
foot note
I found because Fullmonty is 4gb iso you must put FM on usb stick first,then add other iso,s after.
As Grub4dos may boot error ie Error 60: File for drive emulation must be in one contiguous disk area.
   

Hi
I have been trying to get this menu to work for the latest KDE4 iso

title PCLinuxOS
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /pclinuxos.iso
map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 /pclinuxos.iso (0xff)
map --hook
root (0xff)
kernel (0xff)/isolinux/vmlinuz fromusb bootfromiso=/pclinuxos.iso livecd=livecd root=/dev/rd/3 acpi=on vga=788 keyb=en vmalloc=256M edd=off
initrd (0xff)/isolinux/initrd.gz
map --unhook
map --unmap=0:0xff

but it says it cannot find the ISO on my NTFS grub4dos USB bootable drive. I am not a newbie to grub4dos and booting ISOs.

I am using the pclinuxos-kde-fullmonty-2012.09.iso file for testing. I can get this to boot successfully from the ISO using other methods but not using the bootfromiso= cheat code.

Can anyone confirm that this works (or doesn't) please?

[Steve6375]

OK - it works on a FAT32 drive but not from an NTFS USB drive - problem solved!

[Steve6375]

If anyone is interested, I have written up a tutorial at http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/pclinuxfromiso on how to boot from a USB grub4dos drive  (which has a single NTFS or FAT32 partition) with persistence from an ISO file.
The USB drive is easily prepared under Windows and does not need an ext2/3 partition.
You can easily add pclinuxos to your multiboot drive and have persistence too!