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Running Unix Entirely from CD?

Posted by Cliff on from the if-it-can-be-done-with-floppies dept.

Dasein asks: "I am working as a Tech Support Developer, and I had a wonderful idea a few months ago. After stumbling upon Trinux, I modified it so that I could run Linux on any PC with a floppy. By doing this, I was able to backup on our network valuable data on users' computers when their OS failed. This summer I wanted to develop a similar idea but this time with a CD. I was having trouble finding Linux/BSD distributions that could run solely off a CD, and I'm a bit scared to start one from scratch because I wouldn't know where to begin. Does anyone have any suggestions?" nik suggests: On the BSD front, there's the LiveCD project, which seems to do exactly what you want.

2 of 54 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What about the Tivo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    props to getting first three posts. (have you ever done even better?)

  2. Re:Slightly different requirement... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Low ID == Low IQ? Yep.