School Project; please read

[Eberhard Roloff]

Robert Hodgins wrote:
>> Unless you are using Knoppix (or have some very high powered machines
>> with tons of ram) I'd recommend staying away from Live CD's. There is
>> nothing more embarrassing than trying to bring up an Ubuntu Live CD on
>> an old machine with only 256M or even 512M in front of a class.
> 
> There is another distro called DSL (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/)
> that is a live CD AND (in a version called embedded) can be saved to a
> Windows partition and run inside windows (I think it runs off qemu).
> Again, it could be slow in either form on a slow machine.
> 
> You can get the downloads and play with them at:
> ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/current/
> 
> Note that DSL is based on Debian.
> 
> 
Also note that IF DSL is ok for you (just have a look at it) AND if you
are using DSL livecds, then, IF your clients are having 128 MB or more
of ram, you can use the boot parameter "toram" and then have DSL run in
Memory ONLY.
Result:
You are working with Boot-CDs and do not touch the installed OS, but
nevertheless your Linux is operating fast as lightning.

BTW: The same "toram" can be done with Knoppix from 512 MB onwards, I
believe.
I did not test with 512 but tested 1GB and that worked lightning fast,
as well. Probably a bit on the fast side for the machines that you might
find.

Kind regards