that's interesting as i was thinking of the same thing.
see, i have a "live CD" of Red Hat (version 3.something) which i can boot up from the
CD. i know that in XCDRoast there is an option to make a CD bootable. so i was
thinking that i would figure out which files & directories i must have to run linux,
then burn those to the CD & make it bootable.
in theory i can get a live file system. i expect however there might be problems with
some configuration files, or the boot up or something. but i can burn those bridges
when i get to them. this will be as much a learning tool for me as something actually
practical & useable.
what would really be fun would be to add X with very general config files that would
work on most any system and Enlightenment so that i could boot this up on other
peoples system and show off. =)
but that is another bridge even further down the road.
but sure, there is no reason you can't do this. as someone said in reply to you, it's
rather a waste of a CD -- so you may as well add some other stuff to it & then it
might become a good recovery tool or portable linux distrabution (which is what i am
hoping to create). yea, then i could use linux at work.... oh..... IS people having
fits and convulstions when they see it....... oh.... i could tell them i formatted
the drive and installed Linux.... oh.... they would be foaming at the mouth....
oh....
i love it.....
the other Mr. Smith
Adrian Smith
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>>> "Mr. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 9:10:21 AM 12/20/00 >>>
I would like to know if it is possible (I am pretty sure it is) to create a
bootdisk on a cd. I would like to know because I am using Mandrake, BeOS
(free), and Winblows. I find the floppy slightly...slow. So I was just
wondering how I could create a bootdisk to launch linux from a cd instead of
the floppy I created.
Thanks in advance,
Mr. Smith
