Development Release: Mandriva Linux One 2006.0 Beta
Submitted by srlinuxx on Fri, 02/24/2006 - 16:51.
Quoting a message published on the Mandriva Cooker list, Warped Systems reports that a beta release of Mandriva Linux One, a live CD with an option to install it to a hard disk, is available: "Available on the mirrors, a beta version of a new live CD based on Mandriva Linux 2006. This live CD is a complete Mandriva Linux system, which you can use directly from the CD or install on your hard drive.
Full Story with download info.
FYI
I have a CD/DVD burner and a CD/DVD player in my computer and the only way I could get this iso to boot was to unplug one of them. I'm posting this as a FYI in case you were having trouble getting the iso to boot on your system resulting in a kernel panic. This could be your problem.
Mandrake 9.2 destroys LG cdrom, back again ?
LG cdrom firmware was not conforming to ATAPI specification. Mandrake 9.2 can destroy the firmware in any LG cdrom. The question is, "is the ghost of Mandrake 9.2 in Mandriva 2006 betas?".
Anyone with LG cd/dvd, please report if Mandriva failed to boot? The drive will not work again with Windows due to the corruption of firmware. I had suspected Mandrke had tried to update the firmware of their LG drives, to work in v9.2 back in 2003. Unfortunately, sometimes codes find its way back into newer versions when backward compatibility is being maintained.
re: Mandrake 9.2 destroys LG cdrom
Well, let's not stir that up again. It was confirmed at the time that it was a kernel issue effecting several distros. Mandriva (Mandrake) was just the first one "caught" and got all the bad press. But it effected suse and redhat as well as others too.
Well, actually my slave drive on my secondary ide is a LG cdrw. But the system wouldn't boot with two drives hooked up, so it was the LG that got unplugged here.
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Livecd and bios setup ?
Most people love hdd because of Lilo and Grub; which can even do batch processing of small tasks. The task involves computer configurations and perhaps a step further in xserver too. But they can do more, as we will discover. Lilo and Grub can bypass jail and go straight to go(internet portal) as in monoply game.
Livecd has many limitations in bios setup. Some bios versions can not boot cdrom unless you use floppy to redirect. some can not boot but only one primary cdrom. But we can cheat because bios is shadowed during bios setup before operating system is even read. We can have a batch processor(floppy, hdd lilo or grub, or USB drives) to change the shadowed bios to boot any cdrom even USB cdrom if we changed the bios setup in dram.
Livecd distros have not thought much about shadowed bios like Microsoft yet. But time will come, livecd also need batch prosessing capability before operating system is installed.