[Discuss] Persistent mode with Mandriva live CD

[John Blomfield]

John Blomfield wrote:
> Murray Strome wrote:
>> I wonder if anyone knows how to make the Mandriva live CD persistent. 
>> This is easy with Knoppix, difficult with Kubuntu, and I have been 
>> unable to find anything that would tell me how to do it with 
>> Mandriva.  Has anyone discovered an easy to do this?
>>
>> The reason I am trying Mandriva is that it is the distribution I have 
>> found that actually detects my wireless card and lets me configure it 
>> to access my secure wireless network without any difficulty at all.
>>
>> I don't want to actually install in on my laptop until I can be 
>> certain that I can find a way to do it that does not touch the MBR (I 
>> would want to boot from either CD or USB Flash Drive using the built 
>> in Boot Manager).
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
> I am not sure I understand what you are doing with the Live CD?  When 
> you run a Live CD it does not do anything to your MBR or harddrives 
> although it might use a swap partition if it finds one that exists. I 
> simply installs Linux in RAM and then accesses the various programs on 
> the CD and brings them into RAM as required. i.e. uses your CD like a 
> hard drive.  The only way a Live CD will affect anything on your HD is 
> if you click on the "Install" icon!  As I mentioned before the Live CD 
> instance of Linux will access a Pen Drive if its plugged in.
>
Just remembered once you are connected the "mouse icon" turns into a 
"staircase icon".

John
> John Blomfield
>> Murray
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