live-cd distro that writes to cd

[Jamon Camisso]

So now everyone has to go out and buy a DVD burner so that someone updates 
the distro or creates a new one to include DVD-RAM support. Anyone use(d) 
RAM discs with Linux?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
To: <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: live-cd distro that writes to cd


> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:56:37PM +0000, Jason Shein wrote:
>> The world's first live CD that allows users to save their data back to 
>> the CD
>> has been born. It is called Puppy Linux and the first experimental alpha
>> release is now available for download and testing: "So, how does it work?
>> What you have to do is boot the PC with the multi-session CD inserted in 
>> the
>> CD-burner drive -- thus, Puppy automatically knows which drive is the
>> CD-burner, in case you have more than one CD/DVD drive. Then you use 
>> Puppy in
>> the normal way. At shutdown, all the changed files in your home directory 
>> are
>> saved back to CD. That's it. Next time you boot, all the personal files 
>> are
>> restored."
>>
>> -snip-
>>
>> They are recommending a CDR not CDRW so I could see the disk getting full
>> eventually, but still an interesting conept none the less.
>>
>> For those of you who want to play with this - 52 MB
>> ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/puppy-1.0.0alpha/puppy-1.0.0alpha-firefox-multisession.iso
>
> Now if they were really smart they would require a CDRW and they would
> simply erase the last session and then append a new session with the
> updated /home each time.  Then as long as your data will fit on the
> disc, you get about 1000 rewrites of the CD.  but I guess they don't do
> last session erase given they want to support CDR.
>
> Lennart Sorensen
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