Linuxnewbie.org: Linux One Lite: First Looks

[ Thanks to Sensei
for this link. ]

“I downloaded LinuxOne Lite, just to give it a trial and see
what would happen. This version runs out of your Windows drive like
WinLinux 2000. Since I didn?t have problems with WinLinux, I
figured I should not have problem with this one either. Following
the minimal directions, I downloaded and installed on Test System
A. No sweat. Unlike WinLinux, LinuxOne Lite (to be referred to as
LOL) did not put up an icon on the start menu for easy starts. LOL
also does not have a configuration editor program for Windows so
you can configure you setting before launching. (Just in case of a
goof up.)”

“And so I fired it up. Windows shut down, restarted in DOS mode,
and started to load up LOL. That is when it all hit the fan. The
monitor started blinking continuously making the screen nearly
unreadable. I missed the console login, but caught ½ second
glimpses of the X login once it came up. Braving it out I tried to
login with the password given, but more than just the monitor must
have been off because I couldn’t get it typed. With that, I gave up
on it and rebooted via CTRL-ALT-DEL. It took 6 times to get it to
take. Once Windows loaded again, I deleted the whole thing and
moved on to the full version, LinuxOne. (To be referred to as
LO.)”

“The FTP site for LO is fairly decent once you figure it out. It
appears like any normal RH/Mandrake ftp area but everything is
labeled LinuxOne. The one nice thing I found was a folder called
cdrom. Download this and burn it to a CD and you’re ready to go,
complete with boot disk images. The ftp site also offers network
boot disk for ftp installs. (I know, almost everyone else does
too.) So, with the CD burned, I was ready to go.”

Complete
Story