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  • Re: A Live distro for all seasons

    From Alan K.@21:1/5 to pinnerite on Thu Jan 30 16:53:41 2025
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint, alt.os.linux.mageia, alt.os.linux.pclinuxos

    On 1/30/25 04:01 PM, pinnerite wrote:
    I often need to boot on a live drive (DVD or flashdrive) in order to
    work on my hard drives/SSDs unmounted.

    Up to now I have used Parted Magic or Knoppix but I actually do not
    really like either of them. Their only attraction is that they seem to
    be able to boot on any 86 based architecture.

    I wondered if Antix might be a better alternative.
    Has anyone any experience in this area?


    Have you tried puppy?
    Of course it depends on what desktop you want too.
    I have a gparted-live ISO.

    I also just installed Linux Mint on a thumb drive. It's just another partition, so I can
    keep it up to date easily forever. Only issue is that when the kernel is updated it
    writes the efi partition and I have restore it back to reset everything. It takes less
    time to restore (the few times I've had to) than to figure a way around it happening.

    --
    Linux Mint 22.1, Cinnamon 6.4.6, Kernel 6.8.0-52-generic
    Thunderbird 128.6.0esr, Mozilla Firefox 134.0.2
    Alan K.

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  • From stepore@21:1/5 to pinnerite on Thu Jan 30 18:10:54 2025
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On 1/30/25 13:01, pinnerite wrote:
    Up to now I have used Parted Magic or Knoppix but I actually do not
    really like either of them. <snip>

    Why not? Explain.

    I wondered if Antix might be a better alternative.
    Has anyone any experience in this area?

    Experience with Antix or Live distros?

    Man, you really don't give much do you.

    Explain why you don't like those 2 distros.
    Explain what you're looking for *exactly*.
    Define specifically what you mean by *better* alternative.

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  • From TJ@21:1/5 to pinnerite on Fri Jan 31 09:00:16 2025
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint, alt.os.linux.mageia, alt.os.linux.pclinuxos

    On 2025-01-30 16:01, pinnerite wrote:
    I often need to boot on a live drive (DVD or flashdrive) in order to
    work on my hard drives/SSDs unmounted.

    Up to now I have used Parted Magic or Knoppix but I actually do not
    really like either of them. Their only attraction is that they seem to
    be able to boot on any 86 based architecture.

    I wondered if Antix might be a better alternative.
    Has anyone any experience in this area?


    The ssd failed on one of my laptops a few months ago, and had to be
    replaced. I used a Mageia 9 Live Plasma flash drive to partition the new
    drive with the included Gparted.

    The Mageia Live isos will all boot on either legacy or UEFI systems. The
    64-bit versions are available with Plasma, Gnome, or Xfce DEs, while the
    32-bit version is only available with Xfce.

    If you already have a Mageia system available, the best way to put the
    iso onto a flash drive is to use Mageia's Isodumper. It was originally
    created for the express purpose of creating Mageia flash drives. It's
    the only thing I'll use for that.

    TJ

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