On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Adam Thornton wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 02:23:33PM -0500, Beinert, William wrote: > > There was discussion (I think on this list) of a CDROM that allowed > > someone to boot and run Linux from a CDROM without installing Linux. > > I didn't pay much attention at the time, but now I think I know > > someone who could benefit from this. > > They're usually called Live-CDs. I know Gentoo did a nice once recently > that was basically the infrastructure support for Unreal Tournament > 2003. Pretty cool. SuSE used to hand out LiveCDs at tradeshows and > stuff, but I dunno if they still do.
There's also Knoppix from .de. And a couple of firewall setups that run from CD. I've got my own installer. I boot a floppy containing an Etherboot bootrom, and that loads a kernel and initrd (standard Debian kernel in fact) off a tftp server and runs that. The linuxrc in it establishes a network connection (modprobes my NIC drivers until one takes) and mounts a filesystem over nfs. While this system is my installer, it could actually be any Linux setup at all. a firewall on a ro filesystem, a xterminal, a full desktop setup. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
