Hello Scholmo
Oh. so that's similar to 7.0's live cd, I had it. That idea sounds really
nice, but I prefer the real thing. I think that suse knows that the 'real
thing' is better, and that's why they always wait with their release of
suse 7.1 in their ftp.
Although it can maybe be nice for new users that don't want to repartition
and stuff, or just to impress people with windows and show them the power
of linux :)
Cya,
Oren.
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in SuSE 6.3 Live means that you boot the computer from CD and get a
> working Linux without anything configured. Great as a rescue disc or as a
> complete (compilers, man pages, docs ...) Linux on the way.
>
> for SuSE 6.3 there is also an Evaluation CD, this is just a single CD
> install, meaning the usual SuSE but with much less packages.
>
> for 7.1 they changed the system. Now the CD boots into the SuSE setup
> program (YaST2) after creating a 100MB big file on your harddisk as /home
> (This file is created in the existing filesystem, so that nothing gets
> destroyed). After that it configures the computer (sound,net,X,input devs
> ...) and you get a properly configured SuSE Linux which runs from the
> CD. Because of the file on the disk the settings and /home are persistant
> so that you can reboot the computer and return to the SuSE (if the CD is
> in) or just work with whatever was there before.
>
> This also has full compilers and libraries, docs, servers etc. It also
> comes with XFree 4.0.2 and KDE 2.0.1 so it's a great tool to check wether
> XFree supports a video card or to show off KDE to non-Linuxers or to have
> your normal Linux environment available on computers not your own.
>
> Unfortunately the 7.1 Live doesn't allow you to boot into the rescue mode,
> which is a pity since 7.1 comes with a recent kernel and reiser etc.
>
> Schlomo
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