Re: looking for a linux live cd that works

From: Lady Chatterly (junktoilet1958_at_catcher.in.the.rye)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 4:37:06 GMT

In article <66026077.0411121056.3fe3cc2c@posting.google.com> junktoilet1958@hotmail.com (Brian Hughes) wrote:
>
>Andy Fraser <andyfraser31@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> Why is it so important that they work with a live CD anyway? I consider live
>> CDs to be more for evaluation purposes or for system recovery (I use
>> Knoppix as a spring board for installing Gentoo and system recovery). Once
>> they're installed on a HDD (the ones that have that option anyway) you can
>> add and configure software in the same way as their parent distro allows so
>> your worries could be over.
>
>Unfortunately, somebody else could add or configure software. I'd beg
>to differ with Andy..Live CDs are the most promising
>development I've seen in a long time. It might sound like heresy, but
>I was never completely at ease with a 20 MB hard drive
>that couldn't be hardware write protected- meaning flicking a switch
>or removing a jumper- never mind 120GB. One malicious
>trojan could potentially land me in prison. A clean machine, with
>system and applications in ROM, and configurations and data
>on a removable pen drive is my way to go.

Er. 

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