[BLU] Re: Linux that stays on a CD?

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 bpmedley at 4321.tv wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Duane Morin wrote:
>
> > Sometimes I hear this spoken of as one of the holy grails of Linux development
> > -- a Linux distribution that just boots from CD and stays there.  The idea, of
> > course, being that you can tell somebody "Look, you can temporarily check out
> > Linux without having to do all that icky repartitioning stuff."  But, games or
> > no, does such a beast exist?  I'd love to have a couple lying around to show
> > off (frinstance next time I'm at my dads house just pop it in and say "Hey,
> > try it for a little while). Kinda makes me sound like a drug dealer, but, you
> > know, in the *good* way. :)
>
> I believe suse has something that does mostly what you want.  I've never
> tried it, but it is available here:
>
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/live-eval-7.2/

Just found this one:
http://freshmeat.net/releases/57100/

If you're willing to do your dog-and-pony in text mode (without X), you
can do it even cooler from floppy:
http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html

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