Morphix Linux

[uNz[i]]

Morphix is a modular distribution, with live-cd support (you burn the CD, you put it in your CD-Rom drive, you boot and it works... no harddisk-installation necessary, doesn't touch your data). Also, installing Morphix on a harddisk is a breeze, if you want to. Just click on the icon on the desktop, or choose the installer from the morphix/babytux submenu. Morphix should still be considered experimental in nature. No guarentees are given, use Morphix at your own risk!

ISO's with XFCE4, Gnome2.4, KDE3.1, a game iso and a large number of derivatives are available. Morphix is an Open Source/Free software project, based on Debian GNU/Linux and Knoppix.

Perfect for curious people who want to try a Linux distro without having to install anything.

http://morphix.sourceforge.net/modules/news/

[shn]

Good for laptop users as well. I also recommend:

Mandrake Move
Damnsmall linux
Knoppix

and there are probably some more live cd distros out there but I dont recall.

The only issue with live cd is you want to make sure your cd rom is fast enough, unless your running it in ram then it should run a lot faster. A swap partition is good for that too.

[DWk]

Originally posted by shn@23 January 2004 - 03:49
Good for laptop users as well. I also recommend:

Mandrake Move
Damnsmall linux
Knoppix

and there are probably some more live cd distros out there but I dont recall.

The only issue with live cd is you want to make sure your cd rom is fast enough, unless your running it in ram then it should run a lot faster. A swap partition is good for that too.
Link em :D

[shn]

Originally posted by DWk+23 January 2004 - 06:13--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (DWk &#064; 23 January 2004 - 06:13)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin-shn@23 January 2004 - 03:49
Good for laptop users as well.&nbsp; I also recommend:

Mandrake Move
Damnsmall linux
Knoppix

and there are probably some more live cd distros out there but I dont recall.

The only issue with live cd is you want to make sure your cd rom is fast enough, unless your running it in ram then it should run a lot faster.&nbsp; A swap partition is good for that too.
Link em :D[/b][/quote]
Bootable Live Linux Cd

http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/mandrakemove --Mandrake linux
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ --based on knoppix

http://www.knoppix.org/ --based on debian linux

http://slax.linux-live.org/ --based on slackware

If you need a CD distribution that is more flexible and customizable than the ones readily available, create your own.B)
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7233

[DWk]

Originally posted by shn@23 January 2004 - 05:24
Bootable Live Linux Cd

http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/mandrakemove --Mandrake linux
Buy? Hmmm - Care to explain to me if I have to do something for a download? :D

[shn]

Originally posted by DWk+23 January 2004 - 06:38--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (DWk &#064; 23 January 2004 - 06:38)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin-shn@23 January 2004 - 05:24
Bootable Live Linux Cd

http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/mandrakemove&nbsp; --Mandrake linux
Buy? Hmmm - Care to explain to me if I have to do something for a download? :D[/b][/quote]
Thats just so people can read the product details of mandrake move. Its good to know what some of the features are before someone downloads an iso that big. The download link is right under that. You can download it from a mandrake mirror site or suprnova if your brave.:lol:

I find it much easier to get it from a mirror site.

[uNz[i]]

The last time I checked the MandrakeMove DL page, they actually had a torrent file there for it as well as the ftp links. I thought that was kinda kewl. :)

Edit: Removed the "." from the word torrent. Don&#39;t know why it got blocked, it wasn&#39;t even a link. :lol:

[shn]

Originally posted by uNz&#091;i
,23 January 2004 - 07:08]The last time I checked the MandrakeMove DL page, they actually had a torrent file there for it as well as the ftp links. I thought that was kinda kewl. :)

Edit: Removed the "." from the word torrent. Don&#39;t know why it got blocked, it wasn&#39;t even a link.&nbsp; :lol:
If the torrent is provided by the distro site then youll get good bandwidth as well. I downloaded a slackware distro with the torrent link they had on their site and got it pretty quick.

But the distros on suprnova and other bittorent sites would take longer to download.

To be honest I would not even download a "linux" distro from any place other than the links from the distro site.

If anyone does, I recommend they run an md5 checksum (do that anyway) on the iso. LOL, you might be installing an 0wned distro. :lol:

[DWk]

Originally posted by shn@23 January 2004 - 05:45
Thats just so people can read the product details of mandrake move. Its good to know what some of the features are before someone downloads an iso that big. The download link is right under that. You can download it from a mandrake mirror site or suprnova if your brave.:lol:

I find it much easier to get it from a mirror site.
you mean this?


Availability:


The MandrakeMove Download Edition is already available for Club Members&#33;
The MandrakeMove Boxed Edition is available for immediate order at MandrakeStore.com. The Boxed Edition provides the complete MandrakeMove system, plus the capability to save configuration and personal data to a USB key, plus additional commercial software such as NVidia® drivers, Acrobat® ReaderTM, RealPlayerTM, FlashPlayerTM, and MandrakeMove documentation.

[uNz[i]]

No.. theres a DL link on the site, you just need to dig for it.

Go to the Mandrake site. Click on the link that says "Download" at the top of the page in red.
Next page - Click on the lowest green button at the bottom of the page.
Click the link in red at the top of the page that says"MandrakeMove/i586 ISO Image" and you&#39;ll be looking at a huge list of ftp mirrors.

[DWk]

Originally posted by uNz[i]@23 January 2004 - 15:23
No.. theres a DL link on the site, you just need to dig for it.

Go to the Mandrake site. Click on the link that says "Download" at the top of the page in red.
Next page - Click on the lowest green button at the bottom of the page.
Click the link in red at the top of the page that says"MandrakeMove/i586 ISO Image" and you&#39;ll be looking at a huge list of ftp mirrors.
The only one I could get to work requires a password :ph34r:

[shn]

http://server5.uploadit.org/files/shn2150-untitiled.JPG

[uNz[i]]

I just tried the New Zealand mirror and it started straight away without any mention of passwords.
I&#39;m using Flashget, btw.

Heres the URL
ftp://mirror.inspire.net.nz/mandrake/iso/

Edit: Yeah, I said to click the bottom green button. ;)

If you use that NZ link, the one you want is MandrakeMove-i586.iso 631348 KB

[DWk]

Great.... was downloading from

ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandra...keMove-i586.iso (ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandrake/iso/MandrakeMove-i586.iso)

I got to 91% and I paused it because I needed to do something else. And when I try to resume.... it asks for a password <_<

edit - started again.....i gotta reboot so I hope it starts again :D

[DWk]

:angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

It restarted

bleh :frusty:

[Robert00000]

Originally posted by DWk@24 January 2004 - 22:02
Great.... was downloading from

ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandra...keMove-i586.iso (ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandrake/iso/MandrakeMove-i586.iso)

I got to 91% and I paused it because I needed to do something else. And when I try to resume.... it asks for a password&nbsp; <_<

edit - started again.....i gotta reboot so I hope it starts again :D
Should have used a download manager ;)


EDIT: Oops , you must have if paused it. My mistake, i should have read the post properly :lol:

[DWk]

Hehe.... I think I&#39;ll leave my computer on and download it at night B)

[shn]

Originally posted by DWk@24 January 2004 - 16:20
Hehe.... I think I&#39;ll leave my computer on and download it at night&nbsp; B)
Use wget for windows next time.

Btw, its a command line proggie. Supports resume and ssl and works just as great in windows as it does in linux.

oops...........here is the link Wget For Windows (http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/)

[DWk]

As you SHOULD have figured out by now.... I do have a Download Manager. Well I actually have 2 and use them both.

[DWk]

Finally got Mandrake lol.... it got cut over night, but I finished.

Just wondering.... I should just burn with Nero, right?

&#39;Cause I can mount it but Windows doesn&#39;t read it, and UltraISO can&#39;t open it.