Hello there, how are you all?

I want to know what distro should I use.

I need it to be kernel 2.6.xx, rpm based, lxde desktop, lightweight, that can be remasterized, boot and persistence in USB, and that persistent data can also be included into a remasterized LiveCD.
Also I need to add some software that is not included in package manager.

I have tested several distros, but only RedHat 9 works on every aspect, but I can't make it live and/or persistent.

Please help me.

Thank you very much!

You won't find a still maintained distribution using linux kernel 2.6.x. It's simply too outdated at this point. The last release of it was End Of Life'd very nearly 4 years ago now.

Using the correct tools, most any old distro based on RPM can be made to work for what you want, just depends on how much work you're willing to do. You're basically looking at making a fully custom live cd because of how specific your demands are.

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Red Hat 9 was released in like 2003 and is beyond EOL. What kind of hardware are you using? If you're low on specs, you can find a lightweight distro such as Lubuntu, antiX, or a mainline distro set up with the right Desktop environment. If you want Red Hat based, Fedora, Mageia, or openSUSE with LXDE or XFCE. Fedora has some nice spins with LXDE, XFCE, and probably Enlightenment and a few other light window mangers that you can download and copy an image to a thumbdrive. openSUSE also has some cool features listed later.

Kernel 2.6 was released around the time of Red Hat 9, and the latest version of 2.6 kept increasing until 2.6.39, until Tarvalds realized that there would probably be no more major redesigns that would warrant a version bump. Hence, what really was 2.6.40 was 3.0, even though there was no major changes, and 3.19 rolled over to 4.0 similarly a few months ago, even though nothing major changed. So modern kernels are really kernel 2.6 under a different name.

Note that versions branded as Red Hat are for enterprise use and have expensive licensing fees. After Red Hat 9, the typical home user/hobbyist edition became what is now Fedora. It would be a crazy time warp, but is the most similar current distro to Red Hat 9 out there.

Some Fedora resources on persistence and spins:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_t...ta_persistence
https://spins.fedoraproject.org/

I don't know about remastering for Fedora, but for openSUSE there's a free online tool called SUSE Studio, where you can custom build an openSUSE Live image with the software and configuration of your choice. openSUSE also has a utility, SUSE Studio Image Writer, that will write an image to a thumbdrive and create a persistent Live USB.

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick
https://susestudio.com/

Hope this sets you in the right direction!

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Hello.

Thank you, Timothy Miller, wagscat123, for your fast reply.

That's true, it's a very specific request the one I am making. I know about 2.6 EoL, so I was wondering how to.

Just in case, is there a way to merge a fedora persistent data to the live distro, so that installed apps, environment variables and registry entries are permanently available on it?

Timothy Miller and wagscat123, thank you very much!!!

As in keep the data on a distro, and make an existing installation behave like a live distro?

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I think he means just make Red hat into a persistent USB distro, much like you would with a Puppy installation.

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http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-cen...l-via-windows/
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/


covers the 2.6 kernel and rpm.

Persistence is covered in (NOT SURE IF THIS WORKS ON LIVE RPM USB INSTALLS)

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/create-...per-partition/

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PCLinuxOS includes a Live USB creator with persistence.

You can either install the latest ISO and get an old kernel from here:
http://galinux.myftp.org/pclinuxos/2010/RPMS.updates/

or get an old ISO with an old kernel from here:
http://archives.pclosusers.com/isos/
pclinuxos-lxde-2010.10.iso should have a 2.6.xx

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Hello.

Thank you all for commenting!

I used to run dreamlinux 2.2 but it has some problems with accessing ntfs.

Maybe I will try again on it.

Thanks again!

What error did it give you?

Hello. How are you all? Thanks everyone for replying.

I can't make ntfs rw active.

I am not sure if I need to put a cheat at boot time or what.

Thank you!

Hello.

I have tested Mandrakemove V2 and it works just fine, but I can't find how to make it persistent, as it is specified by the developers in the boxed box version.

Does someone know how to do it?

Thank you very much.

Mandrakemove seems like a really old LiveCD, as Mandrake became Mandriva around 2006, and now Mandriva is defunct. There's probably not much documentation or knowledge for something this old and now obscure. If this is related to your NTFS post, NTFS support was really weak (I remember having rw difficulties then) before the mid-late 2000's, and would be much easier in something newer.

Hello.

What about some one making a live distro from RedHat9?

Is that possible?

Thank you very much!

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Why old versions? Compatibility.

Now that I think about it, SUSE Linux 8.2 Live Eval ftp://ftp.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/pub/_L...86-Int-RC2.iso lets you set up a persistent directory with various configuration settings remembered. It's from within a few months of Red Hat 9

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