On Friday 29 April 2005 12:50 pm, Calvin Spealman wrote: > The Ramdisk option eliminates the need for two CD drives in most situations > (not a good idea for low-memory systems), and I've seen others use this > kind of setup in tandem with a USB key drive for storage. > > On 4/29/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've read a little about how custom LiveCDs can be built with > > catalyst. I do like to keep my system very minimal so I wonder how it > > would work to use a LiveCD as my only workstation. Are LiveCDs ready > > to be used in this way? I really like the idea of being able to walk > > up to any computer, pop in a CD, reboot, and be working on my system. > > What do you guys think about this? > > > > I guess this would require two CD drives in order to access another CD > > from the OS?
Take a look at Slax 5.0.4. It's small, kde 3.4.0, dhcp. k3b, all the desktop essentials, etc., and you can save your settings/configs either on floppy, HD, or their web site, so you don't even have to carry a floppy or USB key around. Slax mounts all HD disks, and you can save your work easily. I've tried lots of live cd's, and this IMO is the best, most up-to-date, and easy to use. I've used it on several boxes, and it detects everything, and it all works. Copy to ram, and the slaxconf.mo file is easily updated. Easy to add modules for other apps. Good forum too. http://slax.linux-live.org/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
