Been wanting to play around with Linux for once, just to get my feet wet in it, see what it's actually like and all that, but I just didn't want to go through all the hassle of having to setup my PC's harddrive to partition or correctly, or purchase a second one, and all that..
Anyhow, I recall there being specific Linux Distros that can boot entirely from a USB stick or CD, anyone got more information regarding that, or have any recommendations as to which distros to use for them?
See my new post in:
General Discussion - Ubuntu: Smarter way to install
Also, google "damn small linux"
Yeah, it was pretty much your topic that resparked my interest in trying it out, just I didn't want to do anything that required it to actuall install and run off my HD, hence the USB/CD q here.
Just tried out DamnSmallLinux via QEmu (didn't know that emulator existed), it appears a bit bare-bones to me though, but I guess it's because I'm just used to my full-blown WinXP installation here?
Going to look for more alts out there, got me lots of CD-R/DVD-Rs on standby if need be, and a 512mb USB stick if I need to save stuff onto, you know, keeping it all off my actual computer.
Knoppix LiveCD is a nice CD-bootable flavour.
There's a Ubuntu Live CD that doesn't require an install.
Any recommendations regarding Ubuntu Nomen? It seems to be one of the more popular Linux builds (RedHat being the other prior to it going commercial or something), did a quick google, and apparently there's quite a few versions of Live builds....currently looking at
Feisty Fawn atm when I got 4gb of bandwidth to spare.
DSL is a 50MB cute debian mini linux that boots from anything bootable (wven works inside windows) It comes with some cool basics (mp3 player a W.proc(not oo.o) and paint (not gimp))
It does however take a fair bit of apt-getting to get anything resembling a big distro tho.
www.damnsmalllinux.org