jayant ogale wrote:
Hi friends,
i am planning to buy mandriva usb flash drive. But
before that i want to get my doubts cleared. I had
written this mail to mandriva, but i have received no
response from them.
1] will this flash drive support all my internal and
periferal hardware like
a] HD audio soft V 92 data fax\modem
with smart CP
b] scanner – hp scanjet 3200
c] printer epson – lq 1050
d]will my wireless lan card get
configured automatically?
if not, what am i supposed to do?
2] if this flash drive is writeable, there is a
possibility of deletion of some software by error. Is
there any back-up dvd or partition provided with it?
3] how are we supposed to get root access on this?
4] is there a facility to install this o.s. on hard
disc?
Thanks,
jayant
Another suggestion would be to use something like
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/usb.html
Actually you could also do your own thing by downloading the distro from
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html
and then burning it on your usb key. I did it a long time back; and if I
remember right;
the only thing I had to do was to make the partition bootable (set the
bootable flag set using fdisk).
Follow these steps, if interested
http://www.althack.com/2006/03/10/how-to-run-linux-on-a-usb-drive/
There are other distro's available on the USB; just google for them. The
only real question is the use -
Mandriva has the support structure etc., if things crash.
nitin
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