On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:06:42PM -0600, James Deck wrote: > If it has a bootable CD-ROM: > > http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ > > I've never not been able to read a disc with this... and it comes with a > great collection of extra tools (ie. not just a boot disc). And you can > just add your own if you need to.
A *really* cool bootable CD is Knoppix. (Take a look at <http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html>.) It strives to be a complete Linux distribution on a single bootable CD-ROM, so in addition to lilo, grub, and complete raid utilities, it has complete man pages, several web browsers (so you can search the web for more documentation), emacs (so you don't have to suffer vi if you don't like vi), Openoffice (so you can write notes and draw pictures), games (so you can amuse yourself when nothing works), xmms (so you can listen to internet music streams while playing the games), etc. It even probes hardware and boots pretty quickly. It is a wonderful rescue CD by being a complete damn Linux. Very cool. I guess its downside is that it is so complete that it takes long time to download, it doesn't fit on a little CD, might be too entertaining, etc. I wish Klaus Knopper would add a "please install it on my harddisk"-option, and I wish Red Hat would make such a complete run-from-CD marvel. It is a great way to promote Linux, but lacking a matching install kinda hurts the follow through... -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
