Bootable OS on cd?

[pX]

Hey I know there are OS's out there that can run off just a 1.44 disk, w. no hard drive. Well, i have an old p120 with board and ram, and I have a 2x cdrom. is there anything I could run from a CD? preferrably something that I could run rc5 on.

 

[Damaged]

You could download the linux superrescue from kernel.org, but you need 64mb of RAM for that one. Quite a nice rescue disk though. Very full featured. It's in the /pub/dist/superrescue directory.

Or you could probably run just a real minimal linux like peanut linux or something like that and you could run rc5 on that as well. There are a few linux floppy distros around.

There's also a QNX client, so you could run QNX on the box as well.
QNX

 

[BOFH]

There is also DemoLinux and a version of Mandrake for running off CD's. Linuxcare has a rescue cd thats rather nice too. RH has one that I haven't tried, but have seen on their ftp mirrors. I'm not sure if they still do, but SuSE included a bootable demo cd in their retail boxed distros

 

[jsm]

If features are not your thing, you can check out the QNX demo that runs off a floppy.

 

[doug]

There are various linux distributions that would run just off the floppy, you can make a bootable linux CD as well.
I seem to remember that RC5 ran slightly faster on Linux than Windows.

http://www.linuxrouter.org/

If you don't care about networking why not MS-DOS and RC5?

 

[pX]

as long as I can run it off a cdrom, its cool. thanks for the help guys.