On Monday 01 October 2007 17:44, Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote: > http://wiki.debian.org/LiveCD
Yes, that's where I have seen the term before, but I've been too lazy & too short of time to seriously consider it. I've been playing with Debian Live in my spare time for the past couple of months. Cheers! cmr > On 10/1/07, C M Reinehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 01 October 2007 16:41, Jim Crilly wrote: > > > On 09/28/07 05:26:27PM -0500, helices wrote: > > > > What do you do? > > > > > > The last few times I need to rescue something I used an Ubuntu disc > > > that I had laying around, it doesn't include LVM but it uses a > > > copy-on-write unionfs so that you can install packages onto the running > > > LiveCD. Of course they're lost on reboot, but with a fast Internet > > > connection that doesn't really matter. > > > > > > I would be surprised if Knoppix didn't already have similar > > > functionality. > > > > > > Jim. > > > > I've seen the term before but don't understand exactly what COW means, > > but I think I know what you're talking about. I had a failing disk drive > > last Friday and had to boot my system off of a Knoppix disk to see what I > > could salvage from my raid-1 array. Knoppix didn't seem to include the > > smartmontools package but I was able to use apt-get to install it on the > > fly and use it to diagnose which disk was failing. > > > > Cheers! > > > > cmr > > -- > > Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 > > -------- > > "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 -------- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC
