[svlug] Neato LiveCDs

[Bill Teeple]

Hi Heather,

Thanks for the tip - I will try out NimbleX and see what it can do.

I recently purchased a Puppy Dog Linux distro on a 1GB Flash Drive -
will get it next week and see what it has to offer.

at my place of work, we use PXE Knife - basically a PXE boot menu system
that runs a bunch of utilities off of a TFTP server... works pretty cool
- but you will need a DHCP/PXE server installed at your co-lo which
might not be too cool...

http://pxeknife.erebor.org/

Cheers,
Bill



On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:22 -0700, Heather Stern wrote:
>   I've been playing around some with a liveCD that *isn't* a bigname distro,
>   this one's called NimbleX.   
> 
>   I kind of like it because it's sized for a mini-CD.  On the other hand,
>   they make DVD material in mini-round size these days and maybe there is
>   some nice live-disc at that size.  On the next tentacle, anyone in the
>   universe can point at a URL list of live CDs - but only people can comment
>   on how useful, or not, they've found these things and for what purposes.
> 
>   My goal is to pick something that would be the best rescue-disc to keep
>   stashed in the colo next to whatever SVLUG's server du jour is.  As such
>   the monitor in a crashcart might not be the most brilliant;  it has to be
>   able to deal with hardware that isn't the bleeding edge, and it has to be
>   able to properly deal with RAID devices.
> 
>   However, I also use liveCDs for netlounges, normal joe souls just hitting
>   up their irc and webmails, so I'm sure there's a stack suited for that
>   too.  Ubuntu live and Knoppix are both nice, but their newer cuts often
>   fail - sometimes very poorly - on antique hardware such as the average
>   convention beast.
> 
> So... what liveCDs have you played with, and what do you like best of 'em?
> 
>    NimbleX seems to offer on its menu very clean types of setup to pick.
>    The advanced/see more has a Safe Mode, I'm glad they did such a thing,
>    and trying that out actually mentions during boot things you can add to
>    commandline in order to stop additional actions (like turning off hotplug
>    if it hates you).  I think that kind of fine grained control without 
>    reaching for a cheatcodes list is very nice.
> 
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