Nov 17 2004
Linux Live! CD’s
Frozen Tech List of Linux Live CD’s
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been playing with the BitDefender Live!CD distro, and so far I’ve been pleasantly suprised at exactly how much I’ve been able to do with it. One thing I have not been able to do so far is to access the CD-RW on the system I’m trying to rescue. I can access it as a CD-ROM drive, but I haven’t been able to write to the disk. So I went back to the net for some more information.
I was a little taken back by the sheer volume of LiveCD’s out there. It seems that everyone who is anyone is creating their own LiveCD. Looking at how easy it is, I’m even tempted to create my own distro, but common sense (and a wife who already thinks I spend too much time on the computer) told me I already have enough projects (three computers waiting to built/re-build in the garage right now). So I just reviewed the web pages of a number of the ‘rescue’ distro’s listed on Frozen Tech. And by ‘review’ I mean I checked out their web pages.
Edit: Back to the drawing board. I didn’t read the part where it says Freepia for Via Epia-m motherboards
I’m going to give Freepia a try first. I’ve already played with BitDefender, and if it has the programs for using a CD-RW built in, I’ve been unable to find it. Freepia has cd burning software listed as one of their selling points, and the documentation to make it happen. At least I hope it will work. There are number of notes on how to get a CD-RW running under Linux, but I haven’t been able to find a reference to doing it on a LiveCD version yet.
Wish me luck.