Re: [linux-audio-user] Live CD's you can dock

Ubuntu's soon to be released Dapper Drake has a live CD with an option
to install from the CD. ( ithink).
It is still in the late beta testing stage atm though.

On 5/4/06, Bert Visser <bourdon@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Esa Linna schreef:
> >
> >>>
> >>> Any tips - what files should I copy ?
> >>>
> >>
> >> The ones I have seen come with a program to do the hard disk
> >> installation for you. I don't remember what it's called though.
> >>
> > I am not talking about program that installs it in the hard disk.
> > Docking:
> >
> > "Dyne:bolic solves the problem of istallation in a very simple way:
> > there is no installation! you simply copy a directory and this is
> > called "docking".
> > In dyne:bolic this only consists of copying one directory from the CD
> > to the harddisk, you don't need to change anything of your partition,
> > just copy a directory in it: drag the dyne/ folder from the CD on the
> > icon of your harddisk, that's it!
> > And of course, when you want to uninstall the dock is as easy: just
> > delete the /dyne directory in your harddisk!"
> >
> > http://dynebolic.org/manual/dynebolic-x140.en.html
> > http://lab.dyne.org/Docking
> >
> > This is extremely handy, and I am a little paranoid with hard disk
> > install programs since I don't want to back up my data too often...
> >
> >
> Musix GNU+Linux has the option to copy the entire CD to the harddisk
> (like all knoppix derivates; cheatcode: tohd=/dev/hda1 for example) and
> boot from there; no need to install anything but to boot (just the
> initial part) you will need the CD (with cheatcode: fromhd=/dev/hda1 or
> whatever). I use a separate partition (on my machine /dev/hdb5) for this
> and it works great. All the details are on the CD under Boot options.
>
> regards,
> Bert
>
Received on Fri May 5 04:15:02 2006