Tweak PCLinuxOS 2008 Minime into Full blown distribution
Well to really have fun, we need loads of other applications and some tweaks. Lets check what Minime offers and then we will go ahead and apply the required tweaks.
The Live CD boot is exactly like that of PCLOS 2007, with a slight difference that network is not configured during boot. There is an installer to install the Minime version to hard disk. The devs have tweaked it a little and now we only have to specify the boot partitions during install. The user setup, root password setup etc are done on first boot from hard disk.
The first thing that hit me was the super fast boot from grub to KDM login prompt. Now this is expected as I only had a mini KDE and nothing else, even the time required for network setup was not there. Now I have a NVIDIA 6200 256 m card and fortunately PCLOS Minime provides an easy way to install the driver for it. However, the required drivers are downloaded from internet and by default network is not configured. It was easy though, the Utilities folder had an icon for Internet Setup and it took me to a wizard which made connecting to internet a breeze.
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