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Re: Question on Bootable CDs ... Bart's PE and similar

 
 
Bill Eitner
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      08-20-2008
John Coode wrote:
> Barry Watzman wrote:
>> I need a CD that can boot up to a GUI environment and run a current
>> generation web browser on a PC that has NO hard drive installed at
>> all. NONE.
>>
>> Is this possible? Will "Bart's PE" or any of the other "Boot CDs"
>> allow doing this?
>> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

>
> Have a look at PuppyLinux, available as 88MB .iso download from
>
> http://www.puppylinux.org/home
>
> Can run entirely from RAM. Uses the Seamonkey browser (a Mozilla
> variant) which may not qualify as 'current generation'.


I think Seamonkey is the other one that's on
the version of Knoppix that I have.

One note: live CDs require a decent amount of RAM.
For example, today I tried both Bart PE and Knoppix
on a 1.6 GHz laptop with only 128MB RAM and it was
terribly slow.
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