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Xero Grid
02-06-2004, 08:56 AM
I made a reply to a topic recently, and one of my solutions to someone's dilemma had to do with "Live Disks." This rose a little interest, so I thought I'd give some more info on the idea.
With a live disk, you can run an entire operating system from a CD-ROM. Imagine being able to carry your OS of choice with you, whether your on your way to fix a computer or writing a report on whatever computer you can find. Hacking on the go? Not used to new operating systems and you would like to try it first? Then a live disk may be your answer.
This is not a new concept, but it's growing popular in recent times, as it is becoming more practical and usable. I feel some of these may become almost neccesary. Many include important security, system recovery, and forensic tools Some of these Linux and Unix Live Disks boast read and sometimes writing capability on an NTFS partition.
Here are some I've found:
SLAX (http://slax.linux-live.org/)
A Slackware based Linux Live Disk capable of booting from an 8cm compact disk without losing functionality or performance.
STUX (http://www.gpstudio.com/stux/)
A Slackware and Knoppix based live disk. Coming in two distros, in a sense, there is a pakage with limited capability and customization, and a fully loaded package that seems to have all one needs to see the capabilities of Linux, including Word Processors, IM, Multimedia, Graphics and Development Programs. STUX can also automatically load and save main configuration and personal files on a writable partition.
Morphix (http://morphix.sourceforge.net/modules/news/)
Morphix is a derivative of Knoppix and Debian, another live CD distribution. Morphix is modular; this means that it consists of a number of parts which together form a working distribution, thus making it very customizable. Morphix should still be considered experimental in nature. No guarentees are given, use Morphix at your own risk!
PCLinuxOS (http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html)
A Mandrake based live disk. A complete Linux distro allowing for general desktop use or to serve as a system rescue disk all from CD. PCLinuxOS is a community based non-profit distribution initially based on Mandrake Linux. Just think of it as Mandrake Linux enhanced by Texstar on a single bootable live CD with 1.5GB of desktop applications and the ability to install right to your hard drive with everything ready to work out of the box.
Cool Linux CD (http://emergencycd2.sourceforge.net/)
Cool Linux is part of the LINUX EMERGENCY CD project and is based on Red Hat Linux. It is a bootable, live Linux CD with NVidia drivers, Blender, VMware (trial), OpenOffice and plenty of other software, both free and demo.
RPM Live Linux CD (http://nwst.de/livelinuxcd/lilinux.phtml?include=htm/en_main.htm)
An RPM based Linux live disk. A CD based "server capable" distro that is small, runs on almost all hardware, supports clustering and can easely be (re) built and/or extended using ready to use software packages. It should also run either completely from cd on systems with small amounts of ram and in a "full-ram" mode if enough is aviable. Useful for dedicated servers, routers, emergency systems, cluster nodes and such, it does not contain an X11 Server.
GeeXBoX (http://www.geexbox.org/en/index.html)
Basically a bootable media player. You may wonder why you could have to boot on another operating system to play your media files, but just think about the Mini-ITX plateforms like VIA Epia/Eden or Shuttle barebones. It's now affordable to bring DivX to your home cinema, pluging this kind of computers directly to your TV !! At the time of the first development release (December 2002), it was only able to play DivX movies, but for now, nearly every kind of media files can be played from GeeXboX.
PHLAK (http://www.phlak.org/modules/news/)
Professional Hackers Linux Assault Kit. PHLAK is based on Morphix, and is a modular live security Linux distribution. PHLAK comes with two light gui's (fluxbox and XFCE4), many security tools, and a spiral notebook full of security documentation.
Knoppix STD (http://www.knoppix-std.org/)
Knoppix Security Tools Distribution. STD focuses on information security and network management tools. It is meant to be used by both the novice looking to learn more about information security and the security professional looking for another swiss army knife for their tool kit. The tools are divided into the following categories: authentication, encryption utilities, firewalls, penetration tools, vulnerability assessment, forensic tools, honeypots, intrusion detection, packet sniffers and assemblers, network utilities, wireless tools, password auditing (crackers) and servers.
F.I.R.E. (http://fire.dmzs.com/?section=main)
Forensic and Incident Response Environment. FIRE is a portable bootable cdrom based distribution with the goal of providing an immediate environment to perform forensic analysis, incident response, data recovery, virus scanning and vulnerability assessment.
System Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org/)
SystemRescueCd is a linux system on a bootable cdrom for repairing your system and your data after a crash. It also aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It aims to be very easy to use: just boot from the cdrom, and you can do everything. The kernel of the system supports most important file systems (ext2/ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), and network ones (samba and nfs).
Damn Small Linux (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/)
A distro made to run from a business card size CD. It provides almost a full desktop environment with many tools for more than just fuctionality, allowing work to get done and have some fun.
CDlinux (http://cdlinux.berlios.de/)
A mini distro based in China. It aims to be a handy administration/rescue tool for system administrators as well as general users. I haven't tried it, but the stable release is only 18M. That's less than half that of Damn Small Linux.
FreeSBIE (http://www.freesbie.org/)
A Free BSD based live disk. This is the first Unix live disk I found. Unix speaks for itself. What isn't based on Unix, in some way? ;-) It's stable and some say it's best for servers, but it's what Linux is based on! For Windows users, it may seem to involve too much command line. Now you can see for yourself without the need for installing it.
ClosedBSD (http://www.closedbsd.org/)
A Unix live disk based on the FreeBSD kernel. ClosedBSD is a firewall and network address translation utility capable of booting from a single Floppy or CD.
How?
From what I understand, the kernel image is unpacked and loaded to memory where a virtual hard disk is created and and the rootdisk image is unpacked to it and mounted as the root filesystem. Many small directories are mounted using scripts, and large directories typically work from CD, making them read only. Some distros have options where you can load the entire disk image to RAM (if you can spare it), freeing the CD drive.
Now, you may ask how can I save my work if I'm working from disk. The distros aren't the same, but you can save files and configuration to floppies, and some include the capability to write CDs, to another freed drive no doubt. Another feature of the live disks is, if you decide that you like that distro, you can always install to the hard disk. However, not all are made to be used as standard desktops. Some are strictly for security and recovery use.
Okay, I'm not a huge linux user. I'm very used to Windows, and any of the disks I've tried, I haven't exactly mastered. There are countless things I don't know about Linux. I just wanted to spread the word, and give a little bit of backround. Experiment people! :-) I will post more links to more live distros in later posts.
-- Xero Grid --
ultimatejester
02-06-2004, 09:00 PM
bump
Thnx. Did i miss MandrakeMove or you didnt mention it.
Nice.
I have had a few ventures with some of thoose live cd's. I'll give what input I have relating to them. :D
SLAX (http://slax.linux-live.org/)
While the kde 3.2 beta desktop looks like some fantastic icandy. KDE is bloated and will never be half as light weight as Gnome. THIS LIVE CD SUCKS Why? It won't even handle more than 900 megs of ram before the so called live cd kernel goes into a kernel panic :lol: . And the author is very well aware of this dillema and has for some time. He says he does not know why it does that <_<
I will try to search for this on the internet, I don't understand why is this causing problems... If I wouldn't found a solution, then I will be forced to compile the kernel with 900MB support _only_ in the next version of SLAX.
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Tomas
The Project Manager
Also if you have a floppy drive then dont count on using /dev/fd0 for about 30 seconds while auto mounter hangs your system as this is another frivilous problem that may or may not have been resolved yet..
My rating on this live cd. Either it runs like it is supposed to in order to exonerate probably the n00b thats running it from going through any problems that would require support from a more advanced linux user. Or it's of no use.
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Damn Small Linux (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/)
Now this is a pretty nifty live cd to have. :D I've beed using it off and on for about 7 months now. It boast of nothing spectacular just efficiency. It has a window manager that is a more than lightweight. It only took me 10 minutes to download the 50 meg iso image on dsl and for that reason this is probably the easiest way to go if you have never ever tried a live cd and just can't wait to see what it's like :P
The file manager is emelFM. That's about the lightest file manager you are going to get nowadays in linux unless you want to browse your files from a terminal. :lol:
The web browser it comes with is Dillo. Dillo is based on GTK+ and I like apps written with Glade. Guess that's why the Gnome desktop is so good. If your new to linux then you wont't like that web browser because it does not do much in regard to convenience. Your better off running the pre built in mozilla firebird and flash installer script. It will download firebird and the flash installer and in seconds you'll be running firebird and veiwing flash sites. ;)
It uses fluxbox as its window manager and that is yet another plus in the lightweight category. For 50 megs I suggest you see for yourself...............I sure liked it. And it's better than wasting over 600megs of bandwidth on a live cd that does not work at all. This is a wise choice. I will say that if you like icandy and user-friendliness then this is not the cd for you. Both of thoose come at a price and result in poor performance.
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I see a lot of live cd's not listed but I'll leave that up to xero-grid to find out what they are. Besides, the hunt for live cd's are like the endless and in fact you can even make your own.
There are a number of issues to consider. The fact that one day eventually you will find a live cd that works for you and sooner or later you will be adding or wanting to know how to place that live cd on your hard drive and use as an actual physical o.s. Which can be done :) I find it easier to just download the iso images as you choose and instead of burning them to a disk just boot from the iso file from a virtual machine. Both Virtual Pc and Vmware allow you to do this. That way you wont have to reboot windows or whatever o.s. your on just to run linux. And if you do not have enough ram to run a virtual machine then running a live cd is not going to help you any better because the speed and performance of the o.s. depends on how fast your cd rom drive is. To get beyond that barrrier you can create a /swap drive for more virtual memory. And there we go creating file systems ha? Well now you got a swap drive, just go ahead and create a /ext2 or /ext3 partition and there you can now install linux by itslef. :huh:
Whatever suits your fancy I suppose. But to measure the true ability of linux and what it can actually do you have to run it like you would windows or any other o.s. I can not count the endless number of poeple that say Linux sucks because it did not run up to their standards when they ran it on a live cd. You might as well install it B)
I wish I could get a live cd for xp pro :(
Thanks for the info Xero-Grid. I have a lot of iso's to download and play with now. :)
Xero Grid
02-06-2004, 09:35 PM
Cool, everybody. I thought these were good to know about. And any extra info would be great.
As for MAndrakeMove, I haven't heard of that one, so I didn't place it here for obvious reasons. :lol:
Shn, you know your stuff, and I'm glad to help in any way, and it's cool to have your input. I wish I had an XP Pro live disk too. Hey, I guess this is another reason to have a LinuxWorld Section, isn't it? :D
Or maybe it should be a "nix" section, including Unix, Solaris, and who know what else. :P
-- Xero Grid --
good job xero grid
we need linux world!!
opivykid
02-06-2004, 10:39 PM
So which one would be best to dl for someone who has never used linux before? Should I get a normal version of it, or use the live disk?
Originally posted by opivykid@6 February 2004 - 16:39
So which one would be best to dl for someone who has never used linux before? Should I get a normal version of it, or use the live disk?
Probably should start out with live disks, but if you want more functionality and speed set up a dual boot configuration
opivykid
02-06-2004, 10:42 PM
Ok, yet which one should I get?
Originally posted by opivykid@6 February 2004 - 16:42
Ok, yet which one should I get?
pick out one from above, read their descriptions
Personally I recommend Mandrake Move
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3
Xero Grid
02-07-2004, 06:18 AM
Okay, I said I would post more Linux Live disks and here we go. Now, once again, I haven't tried every one of these disks, so I may quote or paraphrase the sites to help me bring a brief description to everyone else.
dynebolic (http://www.dynebolic.org/)
dyne:bolic is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station. It is shaped on the needs of media activists to eager the production of informations, realizing a full multimedia studio. It takes birth as a grassroot effort to spread free software and the spirit of sharing informations.
Blin (http://linux.zp.ua/)
The page for Blin is in Russian, but can be translated using Babelfish. Blin differs significantly from the existing analogs in terms of the qualitative support of cyrillic (Russian) alphabet and in terms of original approach to the layout. It boots with everything one needs to work locally or on the web with software varying from text editors to browsers, and from compilers and interpreters to your neccesary media players.
Lonix (http://lonix.sourceforge.net/)
The Lonix Page comes in English and Spanish, but the English page is currently under construction and only provides download links. If you need more info, you have to go to the Spanish page where Babelfish can be used. Lonix seems to have plenty of tools for developers and noticeable amounts of networking tools, but I believe the author stated it's not based on X and is based on pure console, significantly lowering the minimum requirements. Am I correct? I haven't really checked up on this.
EagleLinux (http://eaglelinux.w32.net/)
A distro made to run from either floppy or CD and must be compiled yourself. This speaks for itself. Not for beginners, but certainly must be customizable, and very small. However, there are guides in PDF format for beginners. :D Well, it appears there are different versions. The first, 1.x requires Red Hat be installed. 2.1.1 is based on Debian Linux, one of the oldest distros still under production. And there is also a 2.2.0 version. This can prove to be an important lesson to newbies and techies alike, essentially building your own distro, and customizing it to your needs.
LNX-BBC (http://lnx-bbc.org/)
LNX-BBC is another live disk distro small enough to fit on a business card sized CD-R, small enough to fit in a wallet! One of the goals here is to provide a more portable distro rather than havin a fully featured standard OS. Don't always carry a CD wallet? Well, there's always mini-distros like this one, yet there it still has what it takes to get the job done in cases of emergencies or any other time.
ByzantineOS (http://byzgl.sourceforge.net/)
Once again, another wallet-sized OS, it'll fit on a 50MB CD. ByzantineOS is a software Internet Appliance with a home entertainment bias. It is based on a networked Linux distribution/bootable system with Mozilla providing access to a range of services and applications.
Mandrake Move (http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3#move)
This is a link to the download page. I didn't spend much time looking for much info on this, but I hear it's a worthy live disk. It's Mandrake. Need we say more? :D Mandrake must be the most well known for ease of use, and it's very popular, the number one distro on DistroWatch (http://distrowatch.com/). I hear the latest beta of Mandrake (standard, not the live disk) are using the new 2.6 Linux Kernel, but beta 2 is testing the new 2.6.2rc3 Kernel. That alone is enough to consider Mandrake. Especially since Red Hat won't be coming out with any new versions for a LONG time since they are putting most of their efforts into developing the Fedora Core.
Bart's PE-Builder (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/)
This one is a bit different. This is basically a Windows XP Live disk. :D One of the thigs that makes it different is that it must be made BY YOU! Also, this is not by Microsoft and not endorsed by it either. Bart based it on the Windows Preinstallation Environment (http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/programs/sa/support/winpe.asp) of Windows XP and 2003 Server. It allows one to use plug-ins, some of which include shareware programs and you must have those programs to get the neccesary files. But, imagine booting into some of your favorite 32-bit apps for Windows, some of which include Nero, Ad-aware, IFranView, and many more. Creating your own WinPE disk will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Say oodbye to all the good and bad dos-based NTFS utilities! Now we can boot from a CD-Rom and have full read/write access to NTFS volumes! I checked it out and it's pure genius, and the plug-ins keep growing. Another great thing is, you can use Boot Scriptor to make a menu to boot into it or a choice of utilities meant to be runned from diskette.
BootScriptor (http://www.cs.uic.edu/~mter/bscript/bscript.html)
With it, you can boot into several WinPE-like environments such as ERD Commander as well as Bart's PE, but this does require more work, but I've seen someone do it very well before.
More Live disks to come! ;)
-- Xero Grid --
Nice.
I think its funny you say Red Hat is putting all its effort into Fedora Core. :o
We are putting "all" the effort into Fedora. When I say we I mean anybody that has or does use Fedora Core either now or in the past. We are responsible for not only reporting bugs but submitting contributions such as patches, etc. as well. Thats why it says on the site it is aimed toward developers. But even if someone is not a developer and knows nothing at all about linux, the fact that they use Fedora or have used it in the past is a big contribution. Red Hat, although one of my favorite distros, has let the linux community down very harshly :(
They gave the Fedora Project a push and then that was it. Red Hat now devotes all its time and so called effort into their new $180 dollar Red Hat Enterprise Workstation. Not too mention the slew of other enterprise solutions they make that are far from opensource. In fact they are more like a hazard because it will cost you a arm and a leg to purchase it. :lol:
Pretty soon Fedora Core will no longer even be hosted on Red Hat's servers. I hope that changes though. The least they can do is continue to claim ownership of Fedora. Every since Cisco made Red Hat Linux Certification a requirment for one of its cisco certs, Red Hat said "screw the open source all we want is open revenue!"
No, they did not say that, at least I dont think so. But their actions speak louder than their words.
Xero Grid
02-07-2004, 07:30 AM
Hmm... I see. Well, my mistake. That's just the last thing I heard from Red Hat in a while, but I no longer have Linux installed. Red Hat was my first distro, but I found myself using Windows more than anything, so I lost track of Linux news. It sux that Red Hat is all commercial at the moment. But I'm sure the Fedora Project will go onto something big. It's announcement was huge.
If I need anything Linux, I a usually find a ported version or run Linux through VMware. I don't know. I'm kind of off track. :P
I think I'm tired. :lol:
OH, I have a question for you, Shn. Have you ever used Bochs (http://bochs.sourceforge.net/) to emulate another OS? I only checked it out for a minute, but I liked VMware a lot more. :lol:
But, hey. Bochs is Open Source. :D
-- Xero Grid --
No but Ill have to take a look at that.
It says it runs up to Windows NT 4 :huh: . I have no need for win 98, or 95 let alone nt 4 :lol:
Ill have to see if I can at least get it to emulate Windows 2000.
Xp is out of the question :P
Xero Grid
02-07-2004, 08:08 AM
Yeah, that got me curious as well. :unsure:
I usually love checking out new software, but for this, I just got lazy, especially since I don't usually emulate entire operating systems. Lately I've been using VMware to test my bootable software disks.
Oh, BTW, everyone, for everyone who is curious as to the capabilities of BootScriptor, check this out. The Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) is a good example.
I used BS before, but this was, by far, the easiest script to read. It doesn't show the full potential of BS, but it's a damn good start, with all freeware bootdisks.
-- Xero Grid --
Xero Grid
02-09-2004, 07:18 AM
Live Disk post three:
Linux LiveCD Router (http://www.wifi.com.ar/cdrouter.html)
Linux LiveCD Router is a Linux distribution designed to share a broadband connection over WiFi. It can be used with DSL, cable modem, T1, ISDN, and dial-up connections. It can also be used it as a firewall, or as an access point for most WiFi cards. Linux LiveCD Router does not require any installation, but requires a dedicated computer to boot and run the CD. This page is in Spanish, but of course online translation services work (ie Babelfish). There was a new release Sunday 8 February 2004.
Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.com/)
Okay, I mentioned Knoppix before, but that was Knoppix STD, whoch focused more on security and hacking. This distro is based on Debian, one of the oldest distros still under production. Any long-time Linux user knows Debian. It has just about every piece of software imaginable, and doesn't come out with new versions very often. Knoppix, being based on Debian, can have over 2 gigs of executable software run from the disk! There was a new release Sunday 8 February 2004.
KANOTIX (http://kanotix.mipooh.net/)
A German based distro, KANOTIX is a Linux Live CD based on Knoppix technology using Debian/sid. The included XFree86 is from Debian/experimental. The main specs are: GRUB based startup from CD, ACPI support, DMA default on, additional support for DSL modems (Fritz!Card DSL and Eagle USB), optimal for HD install (you get a working Debian/sid install in about 10 minutes!), no SMP kernel (needed for some drivers), kernel with XFS, forcedeth (for nForce NIC) and device mapper patches. Any newbie who's ever tried to install Debian might want to check this out. Debian is a bit more involved in installation than other distros.
DemoLinux (http://www.demolinux.org/old_index.html)
According to the introduction page, the creators said "As a clear sign of disapproval for the software patents directive which will be submitted for approval to the European Parliament on Sptember the 1st, we decided to obscure our site." This appears to not have been updated in a while. Still, the creators wanted to bring the free Os experience to others without having to install it, and that's a great thing.
FreeLoader Linux / eLearnix (http://freeloaderlinux.sourceforge.net/)
Created to make a great way for begginers to learn Linux, no prior knowledge of Linux is required. It boots directly off CD without making any HDD changes and that's it.
Movix (http://movix.sourceforge.net/)
Another bootable media player distro, The MoviX project is a series of three different tiny Linux CD distributions containing all the software to boot from a CD and play multimedia files through the MPlayer, the best multimedia player in the Unix world:
- eMoviX: a micro Linux distro meant to be embedded in a CD together with all
video/audio files you want, so that the CD will be able to boot and automagically
play all of its own files.
eMoviX CDs can now be written with K3b (Linux), MoviXMaker (Linux) & MoviXISOCreator (Windows).
- MoviX: a mini CD Linux distro able to boot directly from CD and load in RAM a
console interface to MPlayer. From the interface you can easily play DVDs,
VCDs, audio/video files Audio CD, internet radios, TV, you name it!
MoviX is now able to boot also from HD, USB pen, CF card and from the net.
- MoviX2:same as MoviX, but it makes use of X and makes use of the nice MPlayer GUI.
MoviX2 is now able to boot also from HD, USB pen, CF card and from the net.
Supported formats are all formats supported by MPlayer, most noticeably DivX and XviD but more in general any AVI, MPG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, OGG/VORBIS and a few others.
FREEDUC (http://www.ofset.org/freeduc-cd/)
A Live disk distro based on Knoppix/Debian specifically for education. A free Operating System with all the software free is ideal for schools, since money can be scarce in the area of education. Great for teachers to easily access the free education application. It come in many different languages... for obvious reasons. :P
Kurumin (http://www.guiadohardware.info/linux/kurumin/)
This page is Brazilian based so it's in Portuguese. Kurumin is another Knoppix based live disk, but it's only 193 MB large, allowing it to fit on a mini-cd. Made more for invienience, what better way to display the capabilities of Linux to your friends, then to pop a mini-cd into any computer that's able to turn on and work off the disk? :D
As before, more Live disks to come! ;)
-- Xero Grid --
Xero Grid
02-09-2004, 06:26 PM
Bump... for good cause! :lol:
-- Xero Grid --
Xero Grid
02-10-2004, 07:44 AM
What's wrong?
Nobody wants to run an entire Operating System from CD any more!?
Well, anyway, Live disk entry four:
Flonix (http://www.flonix.com/)
Flonix is based on Damn Small Linux and comes in two editions:
- Flonix USB Edition
- Flonix CD Edition
Both are essentially live disks, but simply use different media, but can fit on a blank media only 64 MB in size.
KnoppiXMAME (http://sourceforge.net/projects/knoppixmame/)
KnoppixMAME is a bootable arcade machine emulator with hardware detection and autoconfiguration. It works automatically on all modern and not-so-modern hardware, including gameports and joysticks. It is powered by Knoppix Debian GNU/Linux, X-MAME, and gxmame.
Feather Linux (http://featherlinux.berlios.de/)
Another Knoppix/Debian distro, but small enough to fit on a 50 mb busininess card mini-cd. It aims to have a wide range of desktop applications and to be relatively simple to use and set up. Its target market is anyone who wants a small Linux CD they can carry around, or for older machines.
ADIOS Linux Boot CD (http://dc.qut.edu.au/adios/adios-bootcd.html)
ADIOS boot CD version 3.00 January 2004 has support for LIDS (Linux Intrusion Detection System) and SELinux (NSA Security Enhanced Linux). The ADIOS live CD uses a compressed loopback filesystem and has support for UML (User Mode Linux) virtual machines. It is a custom installation of Fedora 1.0 running kernel 2.4.23 and supports X11 windows desktop environments of KDE, Gnome and IceWM. There is also an installable version, but this link send you to the live disk page.
Puppy Linux (http://www.goosee.com/puppy/)
Yes, Puppy Linux is yet another Linux distribution. What's different here is that Puppy is extraordinarily small, yet quite full featured. Puppy boots into a 64MB ramdisk, and that's it, the whole caboodle runs in RAM. Unlike live CD distributions that have to keep pulling stuff off the CD, Puppy in its entirety loads into RAM. This means that all applications start in the blink of an eye and respond to user input instantly. Puppy Linux has the ability to boot off a flash card or any USB memory device (flash-Puppy), CDROM (live-Puppy), Zip disk or LS/120/240 Superdisk (zippy-Puppy), floppy disks (floppy-Puppy), internal hard drive (hard-Puppy).
Hakin9 Live (http://www.haking.pl/en/index.php?page=hakin9_live)
Hakin9 is a magazine about security. It is read by people responsible for computer systems security, programmers, security specialists, professional administrators, as well as people taking up security issues in their free time. Hakin9 Live is bootable distribution, based on Aurox Live, containing all the tools and material needed to practice methods and techniques described in articles.
Sentry Firewall (http://www.sentryfirewall.com/)
Sentry Firewall is a bootable firewall operating system. Just boot from the CD with some configuration files located on floppy, a local hard drive, and/or a network via HTTP(S), FTP, SFTP, or SCP and you have a fully functional firewall.
LinuxDefender Live! CD (http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/presscenter.php?menu_id=25&n_id=58)
LinuxDefender Live! CD is a BitDefender re-mastered Knoppix distribution. It was designed to provide users of both Windows and Linux computers with virus incident rescue tools. Whether your Linux mailserver just got rootkited or your Windows gamestation just got Slammer'd, it's LinuxDefender to the rescue! Just put the bootable CD in your drive to start a turn-key Linux OS which comes packed with almost 1.5 gigabytes of utilities. This distribution contains two world premieres: the world's first ever SAMBA 3 compatible commercial antivirus and FULL NTFS write support - available using the captive NTFS write project.
Captive NTFS Project (http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/)
For those who don't know about the Captive NTFS Project, it accomplishes stable Read/Wite Support by using copied drivers from Windows, of course one of the NT based versions. Here's a quote, "It emulates the required subsystems of the Microsoft Windows kernel by reusing one of the original ntoskrnl.exe...." You also need the ntfs.sys.
There's still more Live Disks out there!!
-- Xero Grid --
Damn, Xero Grid. Keep up the good work. :)
yeah good job xero grid!
:clap:
4play
02-18-2004, 03:52 PM
here (http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php) is a nice list of most of the current live cds worth a look.
i must have missed this thread :-"
nice work Xero Grid, and cheers LSA :D
bulio
03-23-2004, 02:02 AM
I use knoppix, wich is pretty good :lol: :01:
Xero Grid
03-23-2004, 06:45 AM
I haven't been to the board in a little while. I didn't know one of my threads were pinned. :D
I have a question for everyone. Should I reformat my first post to have them all listed live disks in one place?
Might be a good idea.
PS: I'll be posting more live disks soon. I've been preoccupied.
-- Xero Grid --
Originally posted by Xero Grid@23 March 2004 - 00:45
I haven't been to the board in a little while. I didn't know one of my threads were pinned. :D
I have a question for everyone. Should I reformat my first post to have them all listed live disks in one place?
Might be a good idea.
PS: I'll be posting more live disks soon. I've been preoccupied.
-- Xero Grid --
There may not be anymore live disk to post. I think you posted them all.
j/k :P
Lamsey
03-25-2004, 12:58 AM
Strange that no-one has mentioned LindowsLive (http://info.lindows.com/lindowslive/p2p.html), which (though not a hardcore Linux distro) is probably the most friendly distro for Windows users to have a look at.
bulio
03-25-2004, 01:06 AM
I heard it wasn't very stable, that's why I didn't add it <_<
Originally posted by Lamsey@24 March 2004 - 19:58
Strange that no-one has mentioned LindowsLive (http://info.lindows.com/lindowslive/p2p.html), which (though not a hardcore Linux distro) is probably the most friendly distro for Windows users to have a look at.
:lol: Lindows - the worst of both worlds.
I am looking for a live cd for system recovery, one without X preferably.
I have tried R.I.P (http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/), it seems ok but I was just wondering what others thought.
Originally posted by LSA@28 March 2004 - 19:59
I am looking for a live cd for system recovery, one without X preferably.
I have tried R.I.P (http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/), it seems ok but I was just wondering what others thought.
rescue disk (http://www.euglug.org/knoppix/rescue.html) :1eye:
Originally posted by shn+28 March 2004 - 23:30--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (shn @ 28 March 2004 - 23:30)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin-LSA@28 March 2004 - 19:59
I am looking for a live cd for system recovery, one without X preferably.
I have tried R.I.P (http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/), it seems ok but I was just wondering what others thought.
rescue disk (http://www.euglug.org/knoppix/rescue.html) :1eye:[/b][/quote]
[mafia voice]I got an offer ya can't refuse, you add slackware and I give you dis - http://www.dal.ca/~jughead/graphics/money-stack.jpg[/mafia voice]
Well knoppix isn't really what i'm looking for, i'm looking for a disc without X and plenty of system utilities. One that would run well on old computers.
Originally posted by LSA+29 March 2004 - 09:17--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (LSA @ 29 March 2004 - 09:17)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Originally posted by shn@28 March 2004 - 23:30
<!--QuoteBegin-LSA@28 March 2004 - 19:59
I am looking for a live cd for system recovery, one without X preferably.
I have tried R.I.P (http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/), it seems ok but I was just wondering what others thought.
rescue disk (http://www.euglug.org/knoppix/rescue.html) :1eye:
[mafia voice]I got an offer ya can't refuse, you add slackware and I give you dis - http://www.dal.ca/~jughead/graphics/money-stack.jpg[/mafia voice]
Well knoppix isn't really what i'm looking for, i'm looking for a disc without X and plenty of system utilities. One that would run well on old computers.[/b][/quote]
knoppix 2 = Textmode only (runlevel 2)
Type in knoppix 2 at the boot prompt.
What's wrong with you............ya n00b. :rtfm: :-"
j/k :w00t:
Originally posted by shn@29 March 2004 - 14:37
knoppix 2 = Textmode only (runlevel 2)
Type in knoppix 2 at the boot prompt.
What's wrong with you............ya n00b. :rtfm: :-"
j/k :w00t:
:lol:
What do you expect from a n00b like me?
--------------------
Knoppix has too much extra stuff that I won't use, the only thing i'm interested in downloading are the utilities. Maybe i'll order it and try it out :unsure:
The following "Highlights" are available in version 3.3 of this Debian-based (www.debian.org) CD:
* Linux-Kernel 2.4.x
* KDE V3.1 as the standard desktop with K Office and the Konqueror WWW-browser konqueror
* X Multimedia System (xmms) an MPEG-video, MP3, Ogg Vorbis Audio player and xine
* Internet connection software kppp,pppoeconf (DSL) and isdn-config
* Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) Version 1.2
* utilities for data recovery and system repairs, even for other operating systems <--- All I need
* network and security analysis tools for network administrators
* OpenOffice™, the GPL-developed version of the well-known StarOffice™ office suite
* many programming languages, development tools (including kdevelop) and libraries for developers
* in total more than 900 installed software packages with over 2000 executable user programs, utilities, and games
I just don't need all of that, I don't really even need X. I have r.i.p. and I like it, it has all sorts of stuff even a windows password recovery tool. It's only 12mb and it doesn't have X. Is this the best choice for a rescue/recovery disc? I would just experiment with different ones but i'm on 56k so I don't want to be downloading things I don't need.
BTW, where is the Slackware link in your sig? :01:
Knoppix has been used as the ideal rescue disk for a really long time.
If you really don't need all that then type in:
knoppix 1
at the boot prompt and that will bring you to single user mode. Initially for a serious rescue that would do the job.
Once again, all the stuff you don't need like X, xmms, openoffice or any gui apps you can pretty much just not start the program and it might just be the same as not having it on your system at all. :1eye:
Originally posted by shn@29 March 2004 - 15:27
Knoppix has been used as the ideal rescue disk for a really long time.
If you really don't need all that then type in:
knoppix 1
at the boot prompt and that will bring you to single user mode. Initially for a serious rescue that would do the job.
Once again, all the stuff you don't need like X, xmms, openoffice or any gui apps you can pretty much just not start the program and it might just be the same as not having it on your system at all. :1eye:
Ok then i'll see if I can get it
.99 cents! :w00t:
http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/c...dtl/product/160 (http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/cart.php/ba/pdtl/product/160) :o
Thanks for the help.
Originally posted by LSA+29 March 2004 - 15:29--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (LSA @ 29 March 2004 - 15:29)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin-shn@29 March 2004 - 15:27
Knoppix has been used as the ideal rescue disk for a really long time.
If you really don't need all that then type in:
knoppix 1
at the boot prompt and that will bring you to single user mode. Initially for a serious rescue that would do the job.
Once again, all the stuff you don't need like X, xmms, openoffice or any gui apps you can pretty much just not start the program and it might just be the same as not having it on your system at all. :1eye:
Ok then i'll see if I can get it
.99 cents! :w00t:
http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/c...dtl/product/160 (http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/cart.php/ba/pdtl/product/160) :o
Thanks for the help.[/b][/quote]
Wow thats cheap. I think I'll grab a couple myself. :lol:
Looks like a reputable company too http://www.mcbriens.net/liam/img/smilies/thmbup.gif
http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/comments.php
I'm finnaly going to get Slackware :o http://www.mcbriens.net/liam/img/smilies/w00tjump.gif
Hey you added Slackware http://www.mcbriens.net/liam/img/smilies/rock.gif
Any one tried PCLinuxOS? :unsure:
Just i read this (http://www.tuxs.org/livecds.htm) review and have decided to give it a whirl before I tried knoppix
Its all going well so far anyway
Peerzy
11-07-2004, 12:46 AM
Where can i get Mandrakesoft Move free? there site asks for you to pay....
http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=29 9.2
And you can find suse's live eval discs there too.
http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=2 haven't tried them tho'.
Where can i get Mandrakesoft Move free? there site asks for you to pay....
Didn't we sort this out ages ago Peerz? :unsure:
the_painter
12-08-2004, 08:50 AM
Hi,
Ive got a Dell 8300, with a Nvidea video card and I have tried Ubuntu and dambSmallLinux live cds and neither would run due to video drivers ?
I have an install version of Mandrake 9.2 and have tried it a few times but it doesnt have drivers for my Logitech cordless Keyboard & mouse or my Canon i350 printer or my Lexmark X75 printer scanner.
Can anyone tell me where to get linux drivers for hardware thats not supported by a distro ?
If you are looking to install a distro you should go with something more recent than Mandy 9.2.
Mandrake 10.1 official or SuSe 9.2 should be able to cope with dell machines I think, to name a couple, more n00b-friendly distros.
If you want to try a live-disc you should prolly go with knoppix before anything, I've been able to get 3.6 to run on some really funky hardware. And it's up to 3.7 now so it should be even better now. http://www.knoppix.org/
Peerzy
12-25-2004, 05:32 PM
Didn't we sort this out ages ago Peerz? :unsure:
Yeah look at the date posted it is eons old :P . Every now and again i go through a Linux stage where i get a few more cd's try them for a few days.
I got 18 free cd's in the post of a linux distro :01:
atiVidia
03-16-2005, 12:00 AM
time to add one thats really badass :D
Project Frenzy (http://www.frenzy.org.ua/eng/) comes with over 400 tools for all kinds of computer emergencies. It fits on a mini-CD and best of all, its based on FreeBSD!!! A side note: you need to launch the gui manually. when it loads, its command prompt based. me being the linux noob, i have no idea how this would be achieved. any ideas?
Frenzy was recently /.ed. thats why i posted it here (also, it wasnt already posted, and it seems to be really good)
4play
03-16-2005, 03:05 PM
any one heard of project looking glass. its sun's 3d desktop that they are trying out. well they are making a livecd based on knoppix thats in early beta
https://lg3d-livecd.dev.java.net/
its just for looking at really at the minute since the mirrors are amazingly slow and all the only torrent i can find is corrupted.
Great, now I have to get that one too.
It's based on gamesknoppix, cool.
It started off fast, then dropped to 15-16kB/sec, bugger!
atiVidia
03-17-2005, 12:53 AM
any one heard of project looking glass. its sun's 3d desktop that they are trying out. well they are making a livecd based on knoppix thats in early beta
https://lg3d-livecd.dev.java.net/
its just for looking at really at the minute since the mirrors are amazingly slow and all the only torrent i can find is corrupted.
thats pretty badass :D im gonna have to try it :D
screw longhorn if this goes well
uhhh... since when did a live linux build need a secure http connection?
hopes
02-06-2007, 01:27 PM
a little bit old link...but still true (imho)
http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/03/10-best-security-live-cd-distros-pen-test-forensics-recovery/
TheGiant
11-21-2007, 08:27 AM
i will use it before setup linux
to learn more
then i will setup linux
pifpaf
04-29-2008, 02:52 PM
mandriva one 2008.1 is great... some proprietary drivers and plugin are include on cd, and when its finishes to boot the OS is complete/perfect.
http://www.mandriva.com/en/product/mandriva-linux-one
zxyxz
07-24-2009, 01:29 AM
Oh, good. Thanks... :)
WolverineDK
01-06-2011, 04:32 AM
Since no one has mentioned these live discs, then I will mention them
Lubuntu
http://lubuntu.net/
Which is an even lighter version than Xubuntu, cause Lubuntu only needs 50 megabytes of ram.
And then there is Aurora (formerly known as EEEbuntu)
http://eeebuntu.org/ (yeah they still have the old address name)
Which also has a livedisc.
I have just installed Lubuntu on my extremely small laptop, and I am still a beginner. But I am looking forward to using Linux more and more on it :)
Also the normal Ubuntu Linux has a live disc.
http://www.ubuntu.com/
So it is better and better :)
Expeto
01-06-2011, 06:49 AM
:dry: ubuntu didn't even existed when this thread is started... I hate bumped threads
WolverineDK
01-06-2011, 03:23 PM
:dry: ubuntu didn't even existed when this thread is started... I hate bumped threads
Jesus fucking Christ, it is a sticky. So bumped threads ? naah do not be so negative mate :)
Expeto
01-07-2011, 02:14 PM
ahh...facepalm
WolverineDK
02-16-2011, 06:45 PM
Peppermint OS
http://peppermintos.com/
Which is based upon Lubuntu and uses Firefox as it default browser, unless you love Chrome, then you can download the Peppermint Ice instead. Which has Chrome installed instead of Firefox. I personally removed Lubuntu, because they used Chrome instead of Firefox as their default browser. And well now I use Peppermint instead. And yes, both Peppermint flavours has a live option.
CQ1ST
03-18-2011, 11:30 PM
My friend has xp pro and blew up his sata motherboard, he got a pata box and we found a $23 pata-to-sata connector so he could use his sata dvdburner in his pata box
Well xp+dvdshrink+imgburn is having real problems ripping and burning dvds, so I showed him how to quickly rip/burn dvds using PuppyLinux -it's really fast and easy... Puppy Linux boots into ram (you can now use the dvd-drive) and you can burn it onto a dvd-disk and then save your sessions back onto the dvd -which is pretty handy imo
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