lilo and mylivecd

[Yankee]

I've finally got PCL xfce on a portable 250gb.  When I make a mylivecd ISO can
I use Windows and LiveUSBCreator to put it on a big flash drive ?   My netbook is
only 900mhz and making a big cd or dvd with the new cd/dvd hardware is impossible.
1.5 mhz is mandatory for that, but read is OK.  Has anyone successfully done the
above ?


patrick013

[cage47]

900mhz is fine for burning cds and dvds. I've been burning cds since I was working on my old AMD K6-2 at 500mhz. It might just take you some time longer than a newer system. To ensure there aren't any miswrites or buffer underruns you might want to consider not doing anything else on the system WHILE you are doing the burn. But as far as specs go you can do it.

[Neal ManBear]

You can put your PCLinuxOS remaster ISO on a usb stick with PCLinuxOS-liveusb. It is in the repos. Description:

PCLinuxOS Live USB Creator allows you to place not
only the first, or primary Operating System on your
selected partition, but also to add further Operating
Systems as space allows. You can then choose at boot
time which version of PCLOS you would like to boot.
It can of course also be used to put your own remaster
of PCLinuxOS on a removable drive.

There is no need to do this from windows. You can do it from PCLinuxOS.

Now a question --
You used lilo in the topic title. What has this to do with lilo?

[rubentje1991]

Or you can choose to use "Unetbootin" (also available in Synpatic)...

Linux is choice...... 

[Yankee]

900mhz is fine for burning cds and dvds. I've been burning cds since I was working on my old AMD K6-2 at 500mhz. It might just take you some time longer than a newer system. To ensure there aren't any miswrites or buffer underruns you might want to consider not doing anything else on the system WHILE you are doing the burn. But as far as specs go you can do it.

Specs on the new cd-dvd writers all want 1.5 ghz processors.


patrick

[Yankee]

You can put your PCLinuxOS remaster ISO on a usb stick with PCLinuxOS-liveusb. It is in the repos. Description:

PCLinuxOS Live USB Creator allows you to place not
only the first, or primary Operating System on your
selected partition, but also to add further Operating
Systems as space allows. You can then choose at boot
time which version of PCLOS you would like to boot.
It can of course also be used to put your own remaster
of PCLinuxOS on a removable drive.

There is no need to do this from windows. You can do it from PCLinuxOS.

Now a question --
You used lilo in the topic title. What has this to do with lilo?

I just saw that in the repo yesterday.   Lilo or Lili ?
That's what they call the Windows version, even has a lilly icon.
Works like a charm too.

Patrick

[Yankee]

Or you can choose to use "Unetbootin" (also available in Synpatic)...

Linux is choice...... 

Hello,

The LiveUSBCreator is probably a stronger program, more like GRUB
I think.  My experience is that unetbootin doesn't work sometimes.
But also had some iso's where unetbootin was the only one that worked.

Patrick

[Neal ManBear]

LILO (LInux LOader) is a bootloader. It was in use before Grub, the default bootloader for PCLinuxOS. If you intend to use LILO, rather than Grub, you need to know how to use it. Do you?

I don't have windows, so have no idea what lili is or what it does.

[Yankee]

LILO (LInux LOader) is a bootloader. It was in use before Grub, the default bootloader for PCLinuxOS. If you intend to use LILO, rather than Grub, you need to know how to use it. Do you?

I don't have windows, so have no idea what lili is or what it does.

Lili (LIveLInux) is what I use, the Windows version to put iso's on flash drives.  It's supposed to have GRUB like qualities, which to me means it works and is fairly permanent.  They call it LiveUSBCreator.  I
assumed your PCLinuxOS LiveUSBCreator was the same program but probably isn't.  Lilo is just a typographical error, I meant the Lili program. 

I put the PCLinuxOS Live USB Creator on xfce from the repo and it appears twice in the menu,
after uninstalling and reinstalling it still appears twice.  Scratching the old head time again.

thanks for your reply,

Patrick

[Neal ManBear]

Patrick,
PCLinuxOS Live USB Creator in an "in house" app, meaning that a member of our community, JohnBoy wrote it. It is not lili. If you're getting a double menu entry, you can remove one easily. Open /usr/share/applications in your file manager in superuser mode (i.e. as root user). Look for the 2 files labeled PCLinuxOS Live USB Creator and open one with your text editor. Look at its Exec= line. If it begins with kdesu, it is the file for the KDE desktop (menu). If it begins with gksu, it is for the other desktops. If your are using KDE, delete the other file. If you are not using KDE, delete the KDE file.

[Yankee]

Patrick,
PCLinuxOS Live USB Creator in an "in house" app, meaning that a member of our community, JohnBoy wrote it. It is not lili. If you're getting a double menu entry, you can remove one easily. Open /usr/share/applications in your file manager in superuser mode (i.e. as root user). Look for the 2 files labeled PCLinuxOS Live USB Creator and open one with your text editor. Look at its Exec= line. If it begins with kdesu, it is the file for the KDE desktop (menu). If it begins with gksu, it is for the other desktops. If your are using KDE, delete the other file. If you are not using KDE, delete the KDE file.

Next time I need a Live Flash I'll try it.  The Windows usb creator only makes fat32's.  This one uses
ext3 which is nicer.   Only one entry left too, I deleted one of them.


thanks for the reply,

Patrick013

[Dragynn]

900mhz is fine for burning cds and dvds. I've been burning cds since I was working on my old AMD K6-2 at 500mhz. It might just take you some time longer than a newer system. To ensure there aren't any miswrites or buffer underruns you might want to consider not doing anything else on the system WHILE you are doing the burn. But as far as specs go you can do it.

Specs on the new cd-dvd writers all want 1.5 ghz processors.


patrick

Have to agree with Cage47 on this one, have burned a bunch of very useable iso's on old 700 mhz AMD Turion laptop.