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    From pinnerite@pinnerite@gmail.com to alt.os.linux.mint,alt.os.linux.mageia,alt.os.linux.ubuntu,alt.os.linux.pclinuxos on Thu Jan 30 21:01:12 2025
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    I often need to boot on a live drive (DVD or flashdrive) in order to
    work on my hard drives/SSDs unmounted.

    Up to now I have used Parted Magic or Knoppix but I actually do not
    really like either of them. Their only attraction is that they seem to
    be able to boot on any 86 based architecture.

    I wondered if Antix might be a better alternative.
    Has anyone any experience in this area?
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  • From Alan K.@alan@invalid.com to alt.os.linux.mint,alt.os.linux.mageia,alt.os.linux.ubuntu,alt.os.linux.pclinuxos on Thu Jan 30 16:53:41 2025
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    On 1/30/25 04:01 PM, pinnerite wrote:
    I often need to boot on a live drive (DVD or flashdrive) in order to
    work on my hard drives/SSDs unmounted.

    Up to now I have used Parted Magic or Knoppix but I actually do not
    really like either of them. Their only attraction is that they seem to
    be able to boot on any 86 based architecture.

    I wondered if Antix might be a better alternative.
    Has anyone any experience in this area?


    Have you tried puppy?
    Of course it depends on what desktop you want too.
    I have a gparted-live ISO.

    I also just installed Linux Mint on a thumb drive. It's just another partition, so I can
    keep it up to date easily forever. Only issue is that when the kernel is updated it
    writes the efi partition and I have restore it back to reset everything. It takes less
    time to restore (the few times I've had to) than to figure a way around it happening.
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    Linux Mint 22.1, Cinnamon 6.4.6, Kernel 6.8.0-52-generic
    Thunderbird 128.6.0esr, Mozilla Firefox 134.0.2
    Alan K.
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  • From stepore@stepore@be.here.now to alt.os.linux.mint,alt.os.linux.ubuntu on Thu Jan 30 18:10:54 2025
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    On 1/30/25 13:01, pinnerite wrote:
    Up to now I have used Parted Magic or Knoppix but I actually do not
    really like either of them. <snip>

    Why not? Explain.

    I wondered if Antix might be a better alternative.
    Has anyone any experience in this area?

    Experience with Antix or Live distros?

    Man, you really don't give much do you.

    Explain why you don't like those 2 distros.
    Explain what you're looking for *exactly*.
    Define specifically what you mean by *better* alternative.

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  • From TJ@TJ@noneofyour.business to alt.os.linux.mint,alt.os.linux.mageia,alt.os.linux.ubuntu,alt.os.linux.pclinuxos on Fri Jan 31 09:00:16 2025
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    On 2025-01-30 16:01, pinnerite wrote:
    I often need to boot on a live drive (DVD or flashdrive) in order to
    work on my hard drives/SSDs unmounted.

    Up to now I have used Parted Magic or Knoppix but I actually do not
    really like either of them. Their only attraction is that they seem to
    be able to boot on any 86 based architecture.

    I wondered if Antix might be a better alternative.
    Has anyone any experience in this area?


    The ssd failed on one of my laptops a few months ago, and had to be
    replaced. I used a Mageia 9 Live Plasma flash drive to partition the new
    drive with the included Gparted.

    The Mageia Live isos will all boot on either legacy or UEFI systems. The 64-bit versions are available with Plasma, Gnome, or Xfce DEs, while the 32-bit version is only available with Xfce.

    If you already have a Mageia system available, the best way to put the
    iso onto a flash drive is to use Mageia's Isodumper. It was originally
    created for the express purpose of creating Mageia flash drives. It's
    the only thing I'll use for that.

    TJ
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  • From pinnerite@pinnerite@gmail.com to alt.os.linux.mint,alt.os.linux.ubuntu on Fri Jan 31 14:22:29 2025
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    On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:10:54 -0800
    stepore <stepore@be.here.now> wrote:

    On 1/30/25 13:01, pinnerite wrote:
    Up to now I have used Parted Magic or Knoppix but I actually do not
    really like either of them. <snip>

    Why not? Explain.

    I wondered if Antix might be a better alternative.
    Has anyone any experience in this area?

    Experience with Antix or Live distros?

    Man, you really don't give much do you.

    Explain why you don't like those 2 distros.
    Explain what you're looking for *exactly*.
    Define specifically what you mean by *better* alternative.


    However, I mainly use a "live" device is when I want to clone a
    partition ot a drive using dd.

    I need to know for example if '/dev/sda5 is /home on the source drive
    or the target drive.

    If I need to clone an NVMe or M.2 drive, I want to identify it easily
    rather than by a string of characters.

    AND, while I am waiting for a long dd session to complete I would likw
    to watch some video of my choice using Firefix or Chrome. Either way I
    do not want to find that the versions used will not support iplayer,
    UKTV ("U") etc.

    Persistence would be helpful too.

    In other words, not user-hostile.

    Alan
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    Linux Mint 21.3 kernel version 5.15.0-131-generic Cinnamon 6.0.4
    AMD Ryzen 7 7700, Radeon RX 6600, 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD, 2TB Barracuda
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