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<p><h2>What is this?</h2>
<p>A live release of the openmamba GNU/Linux system that can easily be installed on a
flash storage device and run on any computer capable of booting from such USB device.
<p>The image is available as a weekly snapshot of the <a href="http://www.openmamba.org/distribution/development.html">openmamba devel repository</a>.
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<b>Features:</b>
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 <li>live desktop system for Intel i586 and compatible PC's
 <li>KDE desktop environment with multimedia support for audio and video
 <li>full networking support with the ability to perform updates and install additional packages
 <li>automatic detection and configuration of nvidia and ATI accelerated drivers
 <li>NTFS read/write support with ntfs-3g
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<b>Installation instructions:</b>
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<p>1st step) <b>USB storage device partitioning</b>
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 <li>insert the storage and identify its device name (e.g. /dev/sda)
 <li>make sure that no partitions are mounted for the device
 <li>run fdisk or cfdisk and create a partition that is at least 1GB large
 <li>mark the partition as "bootable"
 <li>identify the device corresponding to the partitiong (e.g. /dev/sda1)
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<p>2nd step) <b>Formatting the device</b>
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<pre>mkfs.ext2 -b 2048 <partition device></pre>
The filesystem (ext2) and the given option are recommended to fit the system on a 1 GB device.
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<p>3rd step) <b>Installing the cpio image</b>

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mount &lt;partition device&gt; &lt;mount point&gt;
cd &lt;mount point&gt;
gunzip -c &lt; openmamba-flash-1GB-en-i586.cpio.gz | cpio -i
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<p>4th step) <b>Installing extlinux bootloader</b>
<p>You need 
<a href="http://www.openmamba.org/pub/openmamba/distromatic/index.html?tag=devel&pkg=syslinux">syslinux</a> installed on your computer, then use the following command 
from the &lt;mount point&gt; directory:
<pre>extlinux --install boot</pre>
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Unmount the storage and that's all about installation.

<p>5th step) <b>Running the system</b>

<p>Reboot your computer with the USB storage inserted in.
<p>Your computer maybe configured or not for booting from a
USB Hard Drive/Storage device; check your bios configuration and
wheter it supports booting from USB (many bioses are buggy!).

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