re: Do all of these things still require the intermediate CD construction?
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Kiwi wrote:
|My preferred install is from a directory on my hard drive
In my wanderings, I've discovered
that installing Linux from the HDD isn't as uncommon as I had thought.
http://google.com/search?q=GRUB+fromiso
...though there are some hoops to jump thru.
cache
of http://antix.mepis.org/index.php/Installation_Tips
That was the 1st distro I encountered where I noticed this capability.
The more I learn about MEPIS, the more impressed I am with it.
It's Debian-based (a bloodline which you know I favor)
but it's not in-turn derived from Ubuntu; it's a parallel evolution.
This distro was having funding problems at one time and devised a "club".
They pulled the kind of crap that some Windoze gratis-ware chumps do
and made you go on a scavenger hunt for their downloads.
I very quickly got tired of that distro's nonsense.
I recently learned, however, that they have left that crap behind
and are now a bunch to be truly respected.
This guy (Brad Rodriguez) has been trying to find
distros suitable for n00bs to run on ~400MHz boxes
and has set up "obstacle courses"
to vet the out-of-the-box worthiness of candidates.[1]
Last time around (Summer 2008), of the ones he tested,
antiX (even with a couple of warts) left the others in the dust.[2]
cache
of http://www.goodbyemicrosoft.net/print.php?news.279
antiX is the slimmed-down version of MEPIS, yet is impressive.
I always thought its name was a swipe at GUIs, so I didn't pursue it.
I was wrong about the name and REALLY wrong about that spin's utility.
cache
of http://antix.mepis.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
(Iceweasel is Firefox--just rebranded after stripping out logos & such.)
If you want your own copy of the latest release:
cache
of http://www.mepisimo.com/antix/antiX-M8.2
More mirrors:
http://google.com/search?q=intitle:index-of+"antiX-M8.2.iso"
[1] Because Brad doesn't test the way privileges are handed out,
he thinks Puppy is pretty good
--and you know I think Puppy SUCKS for its non-existent security
(similar to Win9x's sorry state).
[2] Compare to (RedHat-based) TinyMe, which wasn't the worst
--though it failed at many points and had one truly huge bonehead:
cache
of http://www.goodbyemicrosoft.net/print.php?news.280
I find it odd that TinyMe uses the Synaptic package manager
but it is RPM-based (note the 8,000-app repository vs 25,000 for antiX).
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