[SLUG] minimal live CD
I just used a live CD for the first time (Ubuntu), and as good as it is, all I really want is a shell for diagnostics. It took ages to install. Can anyone suggest a live distro that either doesn't have X at all, or has an option to bypass it. Naturally it would be nice if it was reasonably modern with most of the latest drivers etc. I've looked at the Knoppix website, but that looks similar in concept to Ubuntu. thanks... David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] minimal live CD
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:38 +1000, David wrote: I just used a live CD for the first time (Ubuntu), and as good as it is, all I really want is a shell for diagnostics. It took ages to install. Can anyone suggest a live distro that either doesn't have X at all, or has an option to bypass it. Naturally it would be nice if it was reasonably modern with most of the latest drivers etc. I've looked at the Knoppix website, but that looks similar in concept to Ubuntu. systemrescuecd-x86-0.2.15.iso has a few useful programs and fits on a small (8cm) CD. INSERT-1.3.5a_en.iso is even smaller (50MB) and fits on a business card sized CD. dsl-1.5.iso is a small general purpose distro which also fits on a business card sized CD. Puppy fits on a small USB stick. Current version is 1.0.4 with 1.0.5 due out next week. cheers, Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] minimal live CD
David wrote: I've looked at the Knoppix website, but that looks similar in concept to Ubuntu. There are a million Knoppix variants, but if you want a Knoppix shell you can simply boot knoppix with knoppix 2 at the boot prompt. it boots runlevel 2 I think - all knoppix root shell, with all hardware and software available, except X. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] minimal live CD
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 19:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just used a live CD for the first time (Ubuntu), and as good as it is, all I really want is a shell for diagnostics. It took ages to install. Can anyone suggest a live distro that either doesn't have X at all, or has an option to bypass it. Naturally it would be nice if it was reasonably modern with most of the latest drivers etc. I've looked at the Knoppix website, but that looks similar in concept to Ubuntu. thanks... David it looks as if you are quite a newby gee how do you say that kindly, and I do mean it so. All the distros can give you text mode. You are probably best off using a terminal session within X. I think that you'd be best off using something like knoppix (dsl, puppylinux etc) then choosing something that suits your style/application when you have a better insight to what is available, what it can do, and what you want to do. Most distros have tools to do the hard stuff. They are often X based. I just about never use anything but CLI, but an xterm is more comfortable than a console. Cheers James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] minimal live CD
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 21:30 +1000, Ken Caldwell wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:38 +1000, David wrote: I just used a live CD for the first time (Ubuntu), and as good as it is, all I really want is a shell for diagnostics. It took ages to install. Can anyone suggest a live distro that either doesn't have X at all, or has an option to bypass it. Naturally it would be nice if it was reasonably modern with most of the latest drivers etc. I've looked at the Knoppix website, but that looks similar in concept to Ubuntu. systemrescuecd-x86-0.2.15.iso has a few useful programs and fits on a small (8cm) CD. I'll second the vote for sysrescuecd. I almost always have a copy in my car/bag/pocket. It has a small X server, but doesn't run by default. My only complaint with it is that the last time I did any work on SLUG's server, the sysrescuecd I had with me only had a 2.4 kernel. Made playing with software RAID a bit more annoying. Puppy fits on a small USB stick. Current version is 1.0.4 with 1.0.5 due out next week. And my other favourite distribution is Tom's rootboot ( http://www.toms.net/rb/ ). It'll fit on a floppy if you can format it to 1.7MB (most are happy to do this). Or if you're feeling extravagant, there's a 3MB CD boot image. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
