Re: [PLUG] Live on CD

["Michael D. Barlow" <mdbarlow@comcast.net>]

I just recently came across XFLD.  It is a knoppix distro with xfce as the  
window manager.  Fairly low overhead, even with Open Office.  I have found  
knoppix to be a little memory hungry.  DSL(damn small linux) is nice  
however I have not messed around with it for about 6 months.

It runs on two out of three of my machines.  Have not run it on the  
others.(house in disarray).

XFLD like knoppix has the option to install to hard drive.  Will also set  
up existing file system to store a home directory on.(ie updates,  
different software, user files)
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:58:37 -0400 (EDT), Bob Mader <bobm@hp.com> wrote:

> > I'm trying to put together a small collection of bootable Linux "live"
> > CDs.  Please share your favorites with us.
> > I have a link to more live distros than I thought existed!  But, I'd
> > like to know what people are really using.  Here's the link:
> > http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
>
> I've mostly worked with Knoppix and have even done my own customized
> Knoppix CD's. Knoppix has always worked great for me.
>
> Recently, I had the opportunity to try www.linux-live.org. It's not a  
> live
> CD per se, but purports to be able to make a live CD from a running  
> system
> of any distro. I tried it with a RHEL 3.0 box, but it broke because it
> needed a newer version of the tmpfs driver (size=n% option) than what was
> in their kernel.
>
> Also of interest is Red Hat's Stateless Linux project, which includes a
> function for making a live CD from a running system. I haven't tried this
> one myself, but Jason Brooks did a nice article on it in the October 4
> issue of eWeek. He tested it on Fedora Core 3 Test 2.
>
> -Bob Mader
>
> References:
>
> Knoppix: http://www.knoppix.net/
>
> Linux Live: http://www.linux-live.org/
>
> eWeek article: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1666122,00.asp
>
> Red Hat announcement:
> http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-September/msg00575.html
>
> Stateless Linux Overview:
> http://people.redhat.com/~hp/stateless/StatelessLinux.pdf
>
> Stateless Linux HOWTO:
> http://people.redhat.com/dmalcolm/stateless/stateless-linux-HOWTO-en/
>
>
>
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