I love eLive!!!!!!

[rhcp1253]

I have tried eLive over and over and everytime i just love it more. I just can't put it down. If your looking for a Linux OS with a great gui like mac os, go with eLive

[MikeTbob]

I have tried eLive over and over and everytime i just love it more. I just can't put it down. If your looking for a Linux OS with a great gui like mac os, go with eLive

If you want to try something just for fun, download that latest partedmagic CD/USB. I've been playing with that for days now.
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I may give Elive a try some day. Thanks for the tip.

[nujinini]

Hello Mike Tbob,

I have downloaded the file pmagic-4.4.iso.zip for quite a while and have not yet tried it since it is in the .zip format. May i ask how can I unzip it please in my debian? or in any of my linux OS? thanks in advance!

Cheers!

[rokytnji]

right click zip file and pick extract here works for me.

[nujinini]

right click zip file and pick extract here works for me.

Thank you rokytmji!

I right clicked > extract > gave me an ISO image.

Does it mean that I have to burn this image in a CD and install it in another partition? Or treat it like another distro of sorts? Pardon my petty questions but I am just trying to be careful rather than committing another mistake that might lead me to reisntall again my distros which are now where I want them to be I have to reinstall nth number of times in the last 3 weeks.

Thanks in advance for the answer,

Cheers!

[elija]

If it's a live CD, you can run from the CD without installing it, although if you want to install it safely have a look at Virtual Box and install it to a Virtual Machine.

[rokytnji]

Does it mean that I have to burn this image in a CD and install it in another partition?

Correct about burning a that image to a CD. Or you make make a Live USB using Unetbootin also if your rig can boot off USB. Saves on Cds. I would run it Live First to test drive it and make sure what works and what doesn't. If you wish to install it it permanent to Hard Drive. Yes it will need it's own partition.

Elijas suggestion for running in VM is also a good route to take if your hardware is up to the task. You will also learn some new tricks. And if you bork it you can just blow away Virtual Machine install and start over with no harm to your hard install of Elive.

Burn the Iso image to cd and fo for a cruise is what I would do first. Then try out your Luck with Virtual Machine if you wish. Or make a another partition and install it there if you wish. Do what you fancy doing. Have fun.

[rokytnji]

Forgot to mention. Parted Magic is a Live Iso Image and When burned is a Live CD. I keep a Parted Magic CD around just as a tool to fix things like a mechanic keeps a wrench in his toolbox. I also keep a Live USB. Just to impress the yokels in my area. Unless you really Loooooove it. I see no reason to install it. Just keeping the CD or USB around to use it when you need it is OK to.

[nujinini]

Forgot to mention. Parted Magic is a Live Iso Image and When burned is a Live CD. I keep a Parted Magic CD around just as a tool to fix things like a mechanic keeps a wrench in his toolbox. I also keep a Live USB. Just to impress the yokels in my area. Unless you really Loooooove it. I see no reason to install it. Just keeping the CD or USB around to use it when you need it is OK to.

Hi,

Whats a yokel?

Anyway, I burned a CD and run it twice, once from RAM and 2nd from live CD. On both occasions
I got a desktop with all the things parted magic has to offer. The problem though was my mouse refused to move. I tired hitting Fn + F8 twice to no avail. This usually releases my mouse in all my linux distros.

I tried using Tab to choose and Enter but both did not work either.

[rokytnji]

What's a yokel?

I fall more into the redneck catorgory myself. But I am a yokel also.
Yokel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As far as mouse goes with a live CD, That was why I said test drive before install. Is this a laptop? Does your keyboard work at all.

You can attempt while running live cd either as root or sudo (can't remember if Parted Magic uses Sudo)

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

to see if that can get your mouse and keyboard working. I can't guarantee that command will work for Parted Magic. It is a Debian Command. Worth a shot though.