trico
6th October 2005, 10:04 PM
I've been playing around with the live cd based on fc4 created by ATmission. It's impressive. Their approach creates the illusion of a writeable cd by using 'cow' (copy on write) files on either a usb flash drive or on ntfs. Check them out here: http://www.atconsultancy.nl/atmission/
I tried the 1.1 version on a usb flash drive on my IBM Thinkpad r40 and was able to create a new user, logon as that user, modify the background and taskbar, create and edit a file or two in the home directory of my new id, sign off, reboot, sign on again and find the files and background as I had left them when I signed off. I was also able to configure the wireless and access the internet on my home wireless network.
BTW: I tried the 1.1 version with a cow file on the NTFS hard drive on my r40 and experienced some flakieness. Don't know the cause. It was solid when the cow file was on the USB flash drive.
The 2.0 version was too big to burn with XP, but was ok on my linux system at work, a normal (not livecd) RH Enterprise 3 system. I tried ATmission 2.0 briefly with my IBM Thinkpad T42 at work and had similar success (didn't try the wireless though as I had a wired connection to the internet) - this time with the cow file on the NTFS hard drive. No flakieness.
Enjoy,
trico
I tried the 1.1 version on a usb flash drive on my IBM Thinkpad r40 and was able to create a new user, logon as that user, modify the background and taskbar, create and edit a file or two in the home directory of my new id, sign off, reboot, sign on again and find the files and background as I had left them when I signed off. I was also able to configure the wireless and access the internet on my home wireless network.
BTW: I tried the 1.1 version with a cow file on the NTFS hard drive on my r40 and experienced some flakieness. Don't know the cause. It was solid when the cow file was on the USB flash drive.
The 2.0 version was too big to burn with XP, but was ok on my linux system at work, a normal (not livecd) RH Enterprise 3 system. I tried ATmission 2.0 briefly with my IBM Thinkpad T42 at work and had similar success (didn't try the wireless though as I had a wired connection to the internet) - this time with the cow file on the NTFS hard drive. No flakieness.
Enjoy,
trico
