Re: [SLUG] Distro on a CD (off the shelf, or off the burner)

[Ken Yap <ken@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>> My experience with live FS on CD distros is that they are fine for
>> demoing and some exploration but are not suitable for serious work,
>
>I've seen a sysadmin move from one part of a site to another with a
>livecd type of setup. He'd go to the other site, plop in his cd, boot
>and do his serious work in the environment he liked (had X etc running)
>and then pullt he CD out and leave the computer as it was before he
>arrived.
>
>Worked amazingly well.

By serious work I mean running the machine constantly off the CD.  I
have a credit card sized repair CD too, like many others.

>But the HD may be formated in say.. vfat. you can create yourself a file
>with dd, run mke2fs on it, loopback mount it, use it to your hearts
>content, umount it, delete it, reboot and remove the cd.

Sure, we are back to the use of HD again. The original poster wanted to
set up a Linux only machine. As I said, if you have a HD and you want
to run Linux only, why use the CD?