Thanks. Knoppix is what I was looking for. Bill
-----Original Message----- From: Rod Furey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 3:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT (almost) - boot Linux from CDROM on Intel? CD based SuSE Live Eval - as mentioned in Michael's post DemoLinux - www.demolinux.org Knoppix - www.knoppix.org There are various projects around the net that are working on this sort of thing as well. There are others that you can boot off floppies but these tend to be fairly small systems that are designed for rescue acts. A word of experience: I use a copy of the SuSE Eval CD when I'm fixing other people's PC problems. I got it off the front of Linux Format, one of the UK mags (which I read, I'm in no other way associated with them). It's a 7.1 release and unfortunately it doesn't pick up everything on all hardware. I've got a friend who's got a PackardBell "laptop on it's side" model and the mouse isn't picked up. Curiously enough, the Mandrake 7 release will find it if it's installed. Sometimes it won't pick up modems or sound cards either. Before the SuSE people jump on me I'd like to point out: 1 - I offer this as a reminder that some kit just isn't recognised 2 - I know it's old 3 - I'm on a dialup line so I'm not about to spend 24 hours downloading any newer version 4 - I use SuSE as my primary Linux install on 2 boxes at home (the other boxes being iMacs which are running OS 9 and/or OS X) as it was the only distro at the time that would correctly configure my X installation (and a good job it did of it too) Rod