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

Couple suggestions

[Cow4263]

Well, I'd take WinRAR instead of WinZIP (its better, imho; its smaller; and it handles more file types). I'd probably also put TweakUI on there, as well as VNC (both the client and the server). A bunch of generic nic drivers. Some sort of ftp client (whatever is your favorite). There are tons of more stuff that you could argue to take, and you could probably take alot of it. And it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to make the whole damn thing bootable, and don't forget to load that generic oak cd driver. 50 mb is alot for a rescue disk....

On the linux side... First off, don't make a jack of all trades windows and linux disc. Make two seperate disks for two seperate OS's. And, before you go making a list of all the linux programs, check out tomsrbt. Although it was made with the 1.44mb limitation of regular floppys in mind, its a great starting point. And with the addition space you can add all the other goodies that he had to leave out due to the room.

Re:what would I put on them?

[Pogue Mahone]

Don't forget to put your public key on there too.