[TriLUG] help! looking for alt. ways to load Linux

[John Turner]

Also look at:
http://www.demolinux.org/

John

On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 02:07 PM, Ed Hill wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 12:11, Greg wrote:
>> All:
>>
>> I have two laptops: work's Compaq Armada running W2K and my massive,
>> heavy, beastly Toshiba running RH 8.0.
>>
>> I am looking for a way NOT to drag my Toshiba halfway around the world
>> on this trip.  The only real reason I am taking it is so I can 
>> practice
>> C programming while stuck overseas.
>>
>> Is there any way I can build a CD to boot from with a minimal
>> distribution so I can pop that into my Compaq, boot up Linux and just
>> have enough stuff on there to write some C programs from the command
>> line?  Or what are my other options?  Being on-line in the hotel costs
>> money so I can't do a linux terminal server whenever I want which is a
>> bummer.
>>
>> Any ideas or suggestions are very welcome at this point.
>
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> Try Knoppix:
>
>   http://www.knoppix.net/
>   http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/
>
> its a "Linux on a bootable CDR" distro that will probably do exactly
> what you want.  With it and a few floppies (or some other way to store
> your C codes as you modify them), you'll be set.
>
> hth,
> Ed
>
>
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