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Linux that stays on a CD?



On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Duane Morin wrote:

> Sometimes I hear this spoken of as one of the holy grails of Linux development
> -- a Linux distribution that just boots from CD and stays there.  The idea, of
> course, being that you can tell somebody "Look, you can temporarily check out
> Linux without having to do all that icky repartitioning stuff."  But, games or
> no, does such a beast exist?  I'd love to have a couple lying around to show
> off (frinstance next time I'm at my dads house just pop it in and say "Hey,
> try it for a little while). Kinda makes me sound like a drug dealer, but, you
> know, in the *good* way. :)

I believe suse has something that does mostly what you want.  I've never
tried it, but it is available here:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/live-eval-7.2/


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