On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:29 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > Well, actually we are using both (chainloading ntldr by grub) and if you are > changing the partition scheme, you might need to work with it. >
Sorry I was confused. [...] > > Sorry when I said boot via liveCD I wasn't specifically referring to the > > Gentoo LiveCD, but "a"/"any" liveCD. The one I always use is RIPLinux. > > It's great for this kind of stuff.. but I actually use it on a USB stick > > as opposed to a physical CD. RIPLinux comes with all kinds of stuff: > > ntfs/lvm/raid tools, partimage, [g]parted, qemu, mt, mtools, network > > clients, cd/dvd recording software, ndiswrapper, alsa, boot-from-grub, > > X11, etc. etc). Fit's on a 128MB USB stick and loads right into RAM. > > It's awesome. You'll never look at another live cd for > > recovery/administration again. Don't tell anyone I said this, but it's > > also great for installing Gentoo ;-) > > Is it stable? I've tried the newest Knoppix which can copy itself into RAM, > too (although WAY slower because of its size the disk speed) and it always > crashed after some time although there was enough space left and the RAM is > known good. I've been using RIPLinux for 3 years and haven't had any issues with it. I would not compare it to Knoppix though as they have different goals. Knoppix is more "pack as much Linux on a cd as possible" whereas RIPLinux is made specifically for recovery and administration. The software list is kept down to the essentials. The non-X version is only about 32MB, but it contains a host of stuff that administrators need... probably stuff that you won't find on Knoppix. For example the last time I used Knoppix, and it has been a while, it didn't recognize LVM volumes. But RIPLinux is not the type of live cd you'd want to boot and use as a "daily" linux. It's a tractor not sedan lol. Because of it's size it loads pretty quickly. The documentation states "You'll need at least 128MB of RAM and a 486DX CPU". Though it will run on old hardware it comes with the latest software... even will mount my ext4dev drive. The X11 version will on-the-fly download the latest Firefox snapshot from mozilla.org and load/run it from RAM if u tell it to. It comes with Qemu for testing images. It can even boot itself into qemu. Great utility. I can't stop talking about it LOL. The only thing I wish it had that's missing are Amanda client and OpenVPN, but those are not major items. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
