What Would You Load onto a Business Card CD?

tkrabec asks: "I have a few of the Business card sized CD-roms, and I have been toying around about what to put on them. I want to make a utility disk that has stuff I commonly use or would find helpful. These CD's will hold about 50 meg I primarily do work with Win32 but I would also like some helpful linux things. I will probably make 2 disks wo get all data/programs I want. I want to put: dos boot.img 1.4Meg for older machines, rawrite 14K to write .img's to floppy's, putty 695K for secure communications, memtest.img 75K for testing for bad memory, fdisk 65K for HD problems, Winzip 1.2Meg for unzipping things. These are just some idea's and I would like some more with some approximate sizes. Also are there any good references that I could put on there as well?"

Comments

Small cds are nice too

[Anonymous Coward]

I would rather use those small 8cm cd's. You can burn 200 mb on it and they're very cute. Moreover, they're not square so there's no risk of damaging your drive. And cheap too (1$ or so).

As a rescue disk, I like those 1 disk linux distributions. Especially fdisk is a great utility (in contrast with the Dos equivalent). Combine this with a windows bootdisk (to reinstall the bloody thing) and Ghost, and you're pretty safe..

Closest links to your ultimate Linux business CD

[slashdot_commentator]

Pick one:

Linuxcare Bootable Toolbox

LNX-BBC - Linux Bootable Business Card

The features of the first link is that it uses a 2.4 kernel and Xfree 4.1 (and more).

The selling feature of the second is that you can rsync/cvs its development tree, and thus insert your own tweaks into the card.

I'm not screamingly familiar with these versions, but the older BBC they gave away at LinuxWorld really rocks. Not just you're booting the Linux OS from CDROM, but it will handle networking, windowing, and webbrowsing. (And it has repair tools that I thankfully haven't had the need to demonstrate.)