Salvare in action

Booting

The boot loader and allows various stages of hardware detection to be disabled is they may cause problems with your machine (or are irrelevant).

Linux kernel 2.4.20 is used and supports VGA framebuffer consoles, if requested.

Salvare's boot process attempts to auto-detect and setup as much of your hardware as possible in order to provide an easy rescue environment as well as a usable workstation.

After booting's finished, you're left at a shell prompt.

Applications

Links 2.1pre9 - graphical web browser supporting JavaScript, HTTPS and mouse control.

XFree86 installed into tmpfs using Debian's apt-get. Full details on using XFree86 (an X Server) can be found in the user manual.

Further to the earlier screenshot, this shows both Mozilla and Dillo installed into a running Salvare system without touching the hard disk.