Client CD

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006, Walter Vaughan wrote:
>We spent a hour or two this afternoon putting together a bootable liveCD 
>based upon Puppy Linux. In the end it's pretty simple, and I guess really 
>good insurance to keep running a box if the OS/HD dies.
>
>Has anyone else put together a Linux CD that they had that was they could 
>just shove into a PC, reboot and it automatically connect to the proper 
>filePro server?

I often use the Knoppix live CDs to probe new hardware to see
what it finds for network interfaces and such.  I've also used it
to save data from corrupt Windows machines (is there any other
kind :-), copying the Windows data to external hard drives where
it's available for further processing.

There was a presentation on various LiveCD options at a Seattle
Unix Group meeting fairly recently:

	http://www.seaslug.org/Members/gstone/LiveCD/

Bill
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