Mepis LiveCD

[EZRecovery]

Hey, i'm a super n00b on this. :D

I don't know how many of you know about Mepis LiveCD, but it is a damn cool distro to play with.

A friend of mine helped me installing slackware 10, it is a pretty good distro, but since I don't know too much about it yet, cant say much. Now, in a linux meeting I had yesterday at the college I attend, someone mentioned Mepis LiveCD. When booting from the CD, it takes a little bit of time to get to the KDE screen, but once you are there, it has 2 options for installing the distro. One just click next, and it will create swap and everything for you, the other one is almost the same as slackware (customize), but the distro was installed in another computer I have in 5 minutes, pretty damn quick installation, plus my friend has a Toshiba laptop that has something called ath0 for wireless, and he has not found any other distro than Mepis LiveCD that comes with a driver for ath0. If you are starting like me, it is a good one to start with, check it out. I will talk about more as I go.

MEPIS Linux comes with java, flash, divx, realplayer, etc. pre-installed. LiveCD so you can check it out and also super simple to install.

username: demo pw: demo | username: root pw: root

Mepis Notes

-To mount an external firewire drive with an ntfs partition

vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

append doscsi in the kernel line for both kernels then reboot

kernel (hd0,0) blah blah blah vga=788 doscsi

now turn on your ext firewire drive and fdisk -l will show it.

vi /etc/fstab and add the following line

/dev/sda1 /mnt/drive ntfs noauto,users,dev,umask=0002 0 0

now just mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/drive or use KDiskFree to do it with a GUI.

You also might need to chmod -R 555 /mnt/drive

-Speed up OpenOffice (cuts loading time in half)

su

oooprelink -f

Updated Nov 21, 2004

Source: http://www.mrbass.org/linux/mepis/

[MateoGWJ]

Simply Mepis 2004.06 dropped today. Many updates.