Running OS from CD

[BusterBernard]

Hi,

I've been told that one can run an operating system from a CD.

Does anyone know how to set up such a CD?

Thanks

 

[brianp34]

bump for an interesting question. It is possible, some of those internet appliances ran from a cd i'm pretty sure. I don't know how you could set something like that up, but it'd be neat to know.

brian

 

[Nothinman]

Running Windows would be really hard to do, unless it was a version of CE which might be possible.

But any unix can be done really easily.

 

[fivepesos]

demolinux- linux on a cd

 

[NorthenLove]

Download SuSE's evaluation cdrom for verison 7.3 it runs off a cdrom.

here's a link

http://www.linuxiso.org/suse.html

 

[CTho9305]

<< Running Windows would be really hard to do, unless it was a version of CE which might be possible.

But any unix can be done really easily. >>



windows can be done, but its hard. you have to set up a ramdrive for the windows directory since the registry must be writable. then you'll get dozens of errors on boot but it will work. c't has an article on windows-from-cd somewhere.