[Freevo-users] New Piren release is availbale!

2008-12-04 Thread Davide Lucchesi
Hi all, just a short note to let you know that Piren, the Freevo-Centric, Debian based live distribution, is available for download from http://www.piren.org/ It would be beautiful to have a link on the Freevo website, since I think it's the more updated Freevo live-cd available. :) Here's the

Re: [Freevo-users] Piren install to hard drive

2008-07-01 Thread Davide Lucchesi
cedure will not produce a running system like the one you can obtain with a regular Debian (or Ubuntu) installation, but the live image will be copied to specified HDD (or USB) partition. -- Davide Lucchesi | First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, | then they fight you, the

[Freevo-users] Piren 8.2

2008-02-04 Thread Davide Lucchesi
I tried to implement suggestions received from other users and to improve the information (and documentation) found on the web-site. Please refer to http:/www.piren.org/ for more details. Kind regards, -- Davide Lucchesi | First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, | then th

Re: [Freevo-users] Flash-based (or Diskless) Freevo Frontends...

2008-01-08 Thread Davide Lucchesi
On Tuesday 08 January 2008 15:50:40 John Molohan wrote: > Yeah when there's a bit more info up there I'll include piren on > freevo.org under the live distros. Thanks John, if you need more information other than the details provided with my last reply, please ask. //Davide -

Re: [Freevo-users] Flash-based (or Diskless) Freevo Frontends...

2008-01-08 Thread Davide Lucchesi
On Tuesday 08 January 2008 15:22:33 Michael Brown wrote: > I just looked at your site. I think I'll give it a try when I get a bit of > time. I'll play with it in vmware first, and then set up a flash drive I > can live-boot from. I'm preferential to Debian-based distros, so I'll > definitely gi

Re: [Freevo-users] Flash-based (or Diskless) Freevo Frontends...

2008-01-08 Thread Davide Lucchesi
Quoting Michael Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Folks! > > Curious if anyone has done a disk-less or flash-based Freevo > strictly for viewing materials. Yes, but just for fun. As you maybe already know if read the the list in the past few days, I'm working on a lightweight Freevo based live

Re: [Freevo-users] New Freevo Live distribution

2007-12-20 Thread Davide Lucchesi
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:54:32PM +0100, Thomas Kaiser wrote: > > What's the difference between the live-failsafe startup and the others? No vesafb by default, no apic, and other safe settings. You can read the full list inside the isolinux.cfg file. -- Davide Lucchesi | First they

Re: [Freevo-users] New Freevo Live distribution

2007-12-20 Thread Davide Lucchesi
nable > to create a version off Mandriva 2008 :-( > Hope to find a working alternative soon... If you like Debian, I think that live-initramfs is a good starting point. :) Best ragards, -- Davide Lucchesi | First they igno

Re: [Freevo-users] New Freevo Live distribution

2007-12-19 Thread Davide Lucchesi
re unable to do it. Maybe you can try to remaster it (there is a guide on piren.org about customizing the distribution) installing the packages xserver-xorg and xfonts-base: Piren will use X11 if available, so this can solve that issue. -- Davide Lucchesi | First they ignore you, then they laugh at y

[Freevo-users] New Freevo Live distribution

2007-12-19 Thread Davide Lucchesi
version is available at: http://www.piren.org/ Of course there are lots of things to do, but maybe if someone likes to join the project, it can improve to something really interesting. Kind regards, -- Davide Lucchesi | First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, | then