CD bootable linux?

[Andy Mac]

Morning all,

I remember a year or so ago I found a cd bootable linux OS, that did nothing at all to the hard drive. Anyone reccommend on??

many thanks in advance

Andy

[Plotloss]

Most distros are available as live CDs

Knoppix is probably the most widely used one

[vrooom]

Unbuntu is one of nicest one.

[Andy Mac]

Downloading ubuntu as we speak! many thanks!

[JonRB]

The Knoppix Live CD seems to boot up on more diverse hardware than most and is a good 1st choice, but as others have said most Linux distros have a Live CD now.

[JamieBeeston]

JonRB said:

The Knoppix Live CD seems to boot up on more diverse hardware than most and is a good 1st choice, but as others have said most Linux distros have a Live CD now.

Indeed, this is what I've used in the past when I've needed a quick linux boot.

J

[Fer]

JonRB said:

The Knoppix Live CD seems to boot up on more diverse hardware than most and is a good 1st choice, but as others have said most Linux distros have a Live CD now.

Care to recommend a source? (Not heard of/tried these before, but might prove a useful string to my bow).

[JonRB]

Fer said:

Care to recommend a source? (Not heard of/tried these before, but might prove a useful string to my bow).

www.knoppix.org and click on the 'English' icon

(Or to go straight there with www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html )

Edit: Never thought the day would come when I was giving advice on Linux!

Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 6th February 18:22

[Andy Mac]

vrooom said:

Unbuntu is one of nicest one.

Sucks a bit, but for some reason I get to the desktop, all works well thus far, but can't seem to get it to install.. Just sits there twiddling it's thumbs....

[bga]

Andy Mac said:

vrooom said:

Unbuntu is one of nicest one.

Sucks a bit, but for some reason I get to the desktop, all works well thus far, but can't seem to get it to install.. Just sits there twiddling it's thumbs....

I had the same - I ended up getting a different installation CD and it worked fine

[rameshuk]

You can also boot linux from a USB pen .

http://pendrivelinux.com/

Edited by rameshuk on Wednesday 7th February 13:55

[JonRB]

I had a lot of trouble getting Ubuntu / Kubuntu to install on my desktop and went for CentOS in the end (which is the free distro based on the Red Hat source) which installed fine.

[JamieBeeston]

JonRB said:

I had a lot of trouble getting Ubuntu / Kubuntu to install on my desktop and went for CentOS in the end (which is the free distro based on the Red Hat source) which installed fine.

CentOS is my 'user friendly' choice of Linux OS for clients who need a 'softer' option to FreeBSD but dont need the extra support / safeguards of RHEL

it's a great OS.

[Plotloss]

CentOS is also the basis for Trixbox...

(Not that that has any relavence but there we go)

[Andy Mac]

Well, ubuntu still won't install. I ended up using PCLinuxOS, which is quite nice. Not as good visually as Ubuntu, but oh well.