live cdrw

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: live cdrw
started by: bravo-uniform-golf

Posted by bravo-uniform-golf on Mar. 19 2006,08:35

i am currently running dsl on a rw cd. i don't want to repartion my hard drive because it is almost full and i would hate to lose data or have to reinstall window$ again. when i have to wipe my system again(surely to be soon) i will install on the hd with its own dedicated partion. it would be nice to be able to run off the cdrw and save changes and files to the cdrw. i have heard of other distros to something like this. i am new to linux and like dsl very much. thank you.

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 20 2006,06:15

Puppy Linux supports this with multisession CD burning.

Posted by humpty on Mar. 20 2006,13:56

Quote (bravo-uniform-golf @ Mar. 19 2006,03:35)

..i would hate to lose data or have to reinstall window$ again. ..

Then don't ! :laugh:

Posted by Avinux on April 04 2006,05:44

I use it from thumbdrive so I back up my changes to the thumbdrive

much easier!

Posted by roberts on April 04 2006,09:20

This had been brought up before.
multisession CD burning is not very nomadic.
Much better to use a device that is.

Posted by yeti on April 17 2006,19:51

Quote (roberts @ April 04 2006,05:20)

This had been brought up before.
multisession CD burning is not very nomadic.
Much better to use a device that is.

roberts

I'm not nomadic.
I, too, thought a live cdrw might be a good idea.
I only have the cdrw, no plain cd.
I thought this idea might be preferable to a multi-stage
process of making an iso, etc.
I do know that there's a problem when I remove the cd
and try to fire up k3b.
It seems incongruous to me that I have to go back to fc5
to iterate my dsl configuration.

Please give us a little more explanation than the nomadic taunt.

Respectfully, and in much appreciation of dsl,
yeti