Salix Live 13.0 (32-bit) is ready :)

[thenktor]

It's kind of unbelievable but something (maybe the LiveCD release) brought Salix to the 9# place in (the unreliable, I know) Page Hit Ranking on Distrowatch for the last 7 days.

Just another step on our mission to world domination

[ikke]

Too late ... But then I have been away for a couple of weeks.

Just to congratulate the whole LiveCD team for having provided this nice piece of work. Also the User Guide looks very nice. Thank you, Akuna, and all the others I do not know...

Have done a poor man's install. And am testing now. So far no problems. Saw a few Slackware packages have been replaced with Salix packages but same version number. Guess no problem if I keep those Slackware packages for the time being.

Might come back later if any problems arise!

Repeat : Salix Live is too good. Make a little bit more noise so that more people are aware ...

Regards,

[subsonic]

So now that I tried it out and was pretty unimpressed, how do I go about removing grub2 from the mbr of my USB key.

I was hoping this would be an exciting but it just lacks and installling grub2 to the USB key, was that really necessary?

[Shador]

So now that I tried it out and was pretty unimpressed, how do I go about removing grub2 from the mbr of my USB key.

I was hoping this would be an exciting but it just lacks and installling grub2 to the USB key, was that really necessary?

The same way you go about removing any loader from the MBR of any device. By overwriting the first 440 Bytes with zeroes. Something like (with e.g. sda as <your dev>):

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<your dev> bs=440 count=1

Be aware that by doing this you can potentially damage the device causing data loss.

[JRD]

if you want to remove grub2 from you usb key, just issue a

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=440 count=1

...But I don't see the point of removing it.

LOL, beated by Shador

[Akuna]

LOL, beated by Shador

Me too, I gave up posting it

[subsonic]

bs=440 count=1[/code]...But I don't see the point of removing it.

How about

I want to boot other livecd/dvds from it that don't use GRUB2 and while its on there I'm unable to

[JRD]

You can boot every system with grub2, you just need to add them in the menu. It's only a simple text file.

[subsonic]

Your quite aways off from the KISS philosophy from Slackware. Extra work to boot a livecd is not KISS.

BTW this distro sort of blows, you guys should KISS and make up with Zenwalk. Hell half of your stuff is Zenwalk anyways

[JRD]

This is stupid! When other LiveCD will install syslinux on you USB key, it will simply overwrite grub2, so what's the point ?
The rest of you post is just FUDD.