I'm not sure what your situation is on your machine, but a dual boot might not be a bad option. I've been very successful with dual-booting with windowsXP, and find that I end up rarely using it afterwards, but in case I need it, its there.
I believe the installer will do it automatically, or you could just resize your windows partition and make a new one for puredyne to live on. Then you can tweak all your settings as you please, and still be able to play with all the other nice things in the meantime. On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:16 PM, James Harkins <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Lukasz Jastrzebski < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> 1. Might be nice, on the live USB page, to have directions for a >>> persistent bootable stick. I need to tweak the environment a bit and I'd >>> like to do this in the USB environment before committing to a full >>> install. (Plus, not everything is working yet -- d@@@ realtek wifi) and >>> I'd like to see how far I can get with fixing those things before >>> blowing away the original winxp on the machine.) >>> >>> >> The make-live-device.sh script does exactly what you want. >> You boot puredyne in an way (someone else's PC, from DVD or using virtual >> machine and iso), stick pendrive to USB and use script onto it. It will >> format your pendrive, make one FAT32 partition of size needed for iso and >> the rest of space will be formatted to ext2 and utilized for persistency >> data. >> > > But changes to system files would not be persistent that way, correct? The > other partition would not revert but the iso would forget all changes. > (Quite likely that I misunderstand, though :) > > That may push me to install over windows sooner rather than later. > Unfortunately I will need to use Windows sometimes on that machine > (particularly if the realtek wifi can't be sorted in linux, seems dicey at > best from other sites). > > >> 2. Is there a way to add a completely new, custom keyboard layout? I >>> tried editing /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us to add the new layout and >>> then editing ../rules/xorg.lst, but I couldn't choose the new variant in >>> the keyboard control panel (it wasn't available). >>> >>> I can do it by replacing the definition of an existing variant, but I'm >>> curious if there is a less brutal way. >>> >>> >> you can make some alterations that are stored in your home folder with >> xmodmap. Searching for "disable caps lock", appendind xmodmap or Ubuntu - >> this should return tones of valuable stuff, or you can dive into >> xmodmap-related suff right away. >> > > Intriguing, could help. That might also help with my alt-key problems. > Wouldn't hurt to make the silly Windows start key open the launcher menu. > Now if I could just replace the windows icon on that key with the puredyne > swiss knife. > > Claude: > > I imagine this is down to emacs keybindings being enabled: >> > > Ho ho! Something else to play with. > > Overall, so far I'm enjoying this distro. I'm an avid supercollider user > (Hi Dan, nescivi, krgn!) and it's a pleasure to see it "just work" > out-of-the-box. > > James > > > -- > James Harkins /// dewdrop world > [email protected] > http://www.dewdrop-world.net > > "Come said the Muse, > Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, > Sing me the universal." -- Whitman > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >
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