Re: [SLUG] minimal live CD

2005-09-21 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 21:30 +1000, Ken Caldwell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:38 +1000, David wrote: > > I just used a live CD for the first time (Ubuntu), and as good as it is, > > all I really want is a shell for diagnostics. It took ages to install. > > > > Can anyone suggest a live distro

[SLUG] minimal live CD

2005-09-21 Thread James
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 19:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just used a live CD for the first time (Ubuntu), and as good as it is, > all I really want is a shell for diagnostics. It took ages to install. > > Can anyone suggest a live distro that either doesn't have X at all, or has > an opti

Re: [SLUG] minimal live CD

2005-09-21 Thread David Kempe
David wrote: I've looked at the Knoppix website, but that looks similar in concept to Ubuntu. There are a million Knoppix variants, but if you want a Knoppix shell you can simply boot knoppix with knoppix 2 at the boot prompt. it boots runlevel 2 I think - all knoppix root shell, with all har

Re: [SLUG] minimal live CD

2005-09-21 Thread Ken Caldwell
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:38 +1000, David wrote: > I just used a live CD for the first time (Ubuntu), and as good as it is, > all I really want is a shell for diagnostics. It took ages to install. > > Can anyone suggest a live distro that either doesn't have X at all, or has > an option to bypass

[SLUG] minimal live CD

2005-09-21 Thread David
I just used a live CD for the first time (Ubuntu), and as good as it is, all I really want is a shell for diagnostics. It took ages to install. Can anyone suggest a live distro that either doesn't have X at all, or has an option to bypass it. Naturally it would be nice if it was reasonably mode