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KDE Four Live also updated
by apokryphos on Wednesday 31/Oct/2007, @14:57

In addition to the openSUSE packages, an updated "KDE Four Live" Beta 4 was also released right on time for the release: http://home.kde.org/~binner/kde-four-live

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Re: KDE Four Live also updated
by cbcbcb on Wednesday 31/Oct/2007, @16:31

[reposted from my comment on lwn - maybe people here will find it useful too]

To test the liveCD with KVM, you need to do some trickery to avoid KVM
aborting at start up. My Core Duo machine runs at a quite acceptable
speed.

as root
# mount -o loop /home/user/.../KDE-Four-Live.i686-0.6.iso /mnt/

as normal user
create dummy hda file
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/hda bs=1M count=1
run KVM
$ kvm -hda /tmp/hda -cdrom KDE-Four-Live.i686-0.6.iso -m 512 -boot
d -kernel /mnt/boot/i386/loader/linux -initrd /mnt/boot/i386/loader/initrd

To run the live CD at a nice resolution:
1. load KVM and wait for KDE to load
2. press Ctrl-Alt-2, type "sendkey ctrl-alt-f1", then press Ctrl-Alt-1
3. log in as root and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf eg with vi
4. in section monitor change HorizSync to 30-90 and delete UseModes line
5. delete Section "Modes"...EndSection
6. Change all Modes "800x600" to Modes "1024x768"
7. Save xorg.conf, then press alt-f7
8. Press Ctrl-Alt-2, type "sendkey ctrl-alt-backspace" then ctrl-alt-1

To get the network working, open a root terminal, and do dhclient eth0

Hopefully you should now have KDE4 in a usable 1024x768

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