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This is one of the only 'different' distros that is also fully featured and ready to use out of the box(you know what I mean....) elive Gem also works with my wireless card that isnt supported with uBUNTU anymore(typing from elive now) Its all looking very good!!


Michaeljking.

Es sencillamente y posiblemente una de las mejores distros que he tenido el placer de tener instalada en mi equipo.

Altamente recomendable por su sencillez de uso sus bajos recursos y su belleza.

Gracias a todos los que hacen de "Elive" sea lo que es actualmente "Maravillosa"


Agust.

...and Everything works "out of the box" - wireless, codecs, Flash9, connecting to XP computers in the LAN...

It is also VERY easy to get a great working SUSPEND / RESUME in elive!!!!!

I have not rebooted since install - great Distro!!! Very Happy Very Happy


chouca.

The best os ive ever used, converted me from windows, many thanks


tony.

I deal with free software and OS's for about two years, and I had experienced installing and using several distros, flavors and ways of thinking about free software. I must say I was really surprised when I tested for the first time E!Live - it worked better than ANY Linux distro, and was even lighter (and more beautiful) than advanced systems, like NetBSD or FreeBSD. This Distro is awesome, you really got to test to understand.


Felipe Magnus Gil.

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Booting Elive from USB


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Booting Elive from a USB stick is a good idea, it is much faster (USB2) and a lot less error-prone, by other side not all the computers support the boot from USB.

You have 2 different ways to put your Elive system on a USB device, the easyest is by using the unetbootin application from a Windows machine, please use the special Elive version of unetbootin

Is possible to use the bootoption changedevice in order to switch between other devices... this is useful when your computer can't boot from a USB and you want to do it, so that you will boot first from a cdrom and then change to the USB (warning: it needs to be the same version of elive, the differents kernels will conflict)

It is strongly recommended to use the Linux Mode instead of Unetbootin, because unetbootin may fail. If you install it on the USB using the Linux Mode it will work without problems on all the computers



Unetbootin


  • Download the special Elive version of unetbootin and install it in a windows machine, you should be able to use a specific ISO file for it or it will download the last iso automatically from internet
  • One time is installed, Reboot and press the bios key for selecting the device where to boot from. It is usually F12, F10, F8, F2, or ESC


    • Linux Mode


    It is recommended to do this from an Elive system and specially the same version that you want to put on the USB, also from the same machine
  • Create a partition in ext2 or fat32 in the USB of at least 800 Mb so that you can copy the ISO contents on it
  • Open the ISO file and put all the contents to the USB
  • Install grub on your USB: grub-install --recheck --no-floppy --root-directory=/media/your_usb_partition_mounted /dev/your_usb_device.
      • You can use the command mount to found these values, if you run it you have on the first column, the name of the partition, and in the third column you have the point where it is mounted, if for example the partition of your USB is called /dev/sdb1, the number means the number of the partition and the device is /dev/sdb (entire device), on the same example, if /dev/sdb1 is your partition of the USB, the command that you need should look very similar to that: grub-install --recheck --no-floppy --root-directory=/media/sdb1 /dev/sdb . Warning: Do not confuse your partition name or device name, in such case you will delete a different device, like your hard disk, and this could be very bad. Note: If your mount-point has a name that includes a space, you need to add quotes to look something like: ...--root-directory="/media/JOHN 4GB" /dev.... in order to interpret it as a single parameter.
  • One time is installed, Reboot and press the bios key for selecting the device where to boot from. It is usually F12, F10, F8, F2, or ESC


    • Note: If you are in a recent version of Elive you can try the package usb-bootable-elive (already installed) where you can build USB bootable sticks with Elive on it




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