On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:59:52AM +0800, Gideon N. Guillen wrote:

> But in case you don't know, I think Slackware has been doing it for years.
> In fact I have a Slackware 3.6 CD from November 1998. You won't get it by

Mmm, Slackware live? I always thought that Run From CD just installed a lot of 
symlinks (hence need for different inode size).

> Know any other distro that can boot on a CD and would give you a full Linux
> system (including X and a bunch of apps)? These kind of things can be a

SuSE Live Eval can only run from CD, but I don't know if it also requires a hard disk 
install - even just a little bit? <g>

> great tool. You can go to a Windows-using friend and boot from the CD to
> demo Linux. You might even be able to convince him to trash Windows and use
> Linux instead. ;) And it's handay just incase you cant boot Linux from your

What I like about ADMULinux Go! (not that I've tried anything else that runs from CD) 
is that it comes with a lot of the stuff I need already live - databases, programming, 
that sort of thing...

... still, it's pretty young. Hi Doc Mana! What does ADMULinux Go! support now?

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