what about possibly installing gentoo with a B I G kernel on a usb drive ? they quite cheap these days and using that to boot and backup off ?
then u can backup to the drive and write cd's whenever u want ? P ----- Original Message ----- From: "martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:28 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] a smaller penguin Zitat von Stephen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > --- > I wouldn't call 700MB espicially tiny, would you? ;-) > > But if a CD is okay then it means that you want a read-only system. Then > > what's wrong with using Knoppix? > > > well your right 700m isnt exactly small but thats the max i wanna use so > to give ya an idea :D well i dunno i havent looked at Knoppix yet but i > assumed (yes that can be evil) that it would not include cd burner support > wifi and other goodies i might want to include. i wanted a cd that was not > only capable of installing gentoo which is easy but also capable of making > backup cds. im not certain this is possible, it might require a hard disk > that i might not want to touch but in any case if it can be done only in > ram i would be estatic. i suppose i could dl knoppix and mod it or > something. knoppix includes cd burner, wifi and other goodies... actually its a distro with 1,8GB compressed to fit on a 700mb cd... you can even use it as a full featured desktop system running from cd. you have openoffice, media players, gimp, ... and many more... e.g. for cd burning you have k3b (kde application, that is using the cdrecord,mkisofs,...-tools) you can do nearly everything with it... just try it... martin -- > > ===== > ** LINUX, High performance food for your pc. what is yours running on? ** > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
