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Puppy Linux Lets You Run From, Save To The Same CD

Posted by timothy on from the dog-ate-my-homework-jokes dept.

qewl writes "Now there's a live CD that can actually save data back onto its own disk! How does it work? The PC boots with a multi-session CD inserted in the CD-burner drive -- thus, Puppy Linux automatically knows which drive is the CD-burner, in case you have more than one CD/DVD drive. Then you use Puppy in the normal way. At shutdown, all the changed files in your home directory are saved back to CD. That's it. Next time you boot, all the personal files are restored!"

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  1. nice! by ErichTheWebGuy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was just discussing this earlier about whether Knoppix could do just that. I suspect it will only be a matter of weeks or even days before we see a Knoppix version that can also do this.

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  2. Re:Interesting, now for the next level... by ErikTheRed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Heck, dual-layer is pretty cheap now.

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  3. Encryption might be good. by un1xl0ser · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is a great idea.. but it says "The files are saved on the CD as normal files, not encrypted or compressed."

    That's great for Windows compatability, but I'd prefer my files to be encrypted, even on a livecd.

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  4. USB Key? by xtal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wouldn't using a flash USB key make a lot more sense? Or am I missing something here?

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  5. Good for data recovery and such by Arthropod · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Anytime you need to get info off a messed-up pc that can't transmit to a useful network location, and doesn't have USB-ms drivers on it, but that has a cd-rw, this sucker would be a godsend. I've booted up on a knoppix cd more than once with the idea of writing files to a cd using knoppix. Though I suppose it would work just as well to boot into something that can load itself completely into memory, and free up the drive.


    Anyhow, even if some of that is available, it might just plain be convenient. I like the idea, anyway