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-MandrakeMove is Copyright (c) 2003 MandrakeSoft
-
-MandrakeMove is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-any later version.
-
-This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
-
- MandrakeMove README
-
-
- General overview.
-
-Mandrake Move is a "live" Mandrake Linux Discovery based system,
-an OS which boots off a removable device (a CDROM in our case)
-without needing any installation on hard drive (it doesn't need
-any harddrive in computer actually).
-
-Mandrake Move brings two main innovations:
-
-- ability to eject the CDROM which Move was booted from, still
- running a multimedia player, so that user can play
- ogg/mp3/vcd/avi/dvd discs without needing a second CDROM drive
-
-- transparently saving user and system data to a USB key
-
-
- Technical aspects.
-
- CDROM ejecting.
-
-Works by killing most unneeded running application (open-office,
-frozen-bubble, gimp, etc), then transfering X/kde/totem files
-(already pertaining to a loopback) into memory, then CDROM drive
-is not busy anymore.
-
- Paths of boot.
-
-MandrakeMove should work in three different paths of boot:
-
-- mode 1: no USB key
-
- automatic X configuration, DrakX starts up, asks for language,
- license, asks for a key (we answer we have no key), possibly
- for mouse and keyboard, username/password, auto-detects sound,
- printer and network devices, starts up KDE
-
- this is a normal live mode, nothing particular
-
-- mode 2: USB key but doesn't yet contain MandrakeMove files
-
- automatic X configuration, DrakX starts up, asks for language,
- license, set up configuration files on the key, possibly asks
- for mouse and keyboard, username/password, starts up KDE
-
- once KDE is booted, we are in full Move move, in which user
- data and system configuration data are saved on the usb key
-
- the USB key is mounted on /home, and some symlinks are created
- from a selection of /etc system files to a per-host directory
- on the USB key (based in /home/.sysconf)
-
- a daemon is monitoring modifications made to /etc, and
- transparently copy modified/new files to the USB key; hence
- Mandrake Move is much extensible, any modification on /etc will
- be saved
-
-- mode 3: USB key, contains MandrakeMove files
-
- - 3.1: we are running on the same machine
-
- DrakX GUI not even shows up as we use existing configuration
- files, we set up stuff of the usb key (/home etc) and we start
- up KDE
-
- - 3.2: we are running on another machine
-
- We use language, username/password, and homedir from USB key,
- but other system configuration need to be re-asked:
-
- automatic X configuration, DrakX starts up, possibly asks for
- mouse and keyboard, starts up KDE
-
-
-
- gc, pixel