Free Linux on Windows platform 1

[omegabetax]

Hi everybody,

I need for traning purpose a free version of LINUX or variant that works on Windows platform.
Can someone give me an advice ?

Thanks

 

[Kozusnik]

You might be better suited with a live cd like knoppix. knopper.net.
Or something like winlinux. Or maybe a dual boot.

For training, go with knoppix. IMHO the best live cd I've used.

Later,
Mark

 

[lgarner]

Cygwin if you want a Linux-like environment on Windows. Otherwise, I think your choices are dual-boot, a CD-based distribution like Knoppix, or VMWare or other VM system.

 

[omegabetax]

Live CD means that I can work directly from CD ? How can I do some operations like copy or move ?

Thanks

 

[torandson]

omegabetax,

The Knoppix, if I understand this correctly, will give you a Linux OS that is in RAM. Once you boot to this, you can mount drive partitions and read/write to drives.

Linux reads FAT32 partitions, so you could access these.

It also reads FAT12, so you could type:

mount /mnt/floppy/

and mount a floppy disk that was in your A: drive.

If you experiment around with reading and writing to the floppy disk, be sure to type:

umount /mnt/floppy/

after you are finished, because otherwise, if you remove the floppy disk without unmounting it (yes, the command is spelled correctly) you may lose the data you expected to find on it.

Hope this helps get you started.

--torandson

 

[torandson]

Hi all,

Speaking of Knoppix, the last time I tried to get that going I didn't succeed.

I have a drive backup program that includes what must be a "knoppix-like" emergency boot CD.

Where might I find a knoppix distribution to burn onto a CD and info about how to customize this for my own uses?

Yes, I could check Google, but I seem to recall having done that once and after fiddling around for days I did not get a working CD. Can anyone point me toward a known-to-be-successful solution?

BTW, 650 MB is a lot to download. I have Red Hat Linux 7.0, 8.0, and 9.0 and RH Enterprise Linux 3. Can I make a knoppix distro CD with what I have? If so, where do I find the instructions?

--torandson

 

[smah]

http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

I've been really impressed with slax and prefer it over knoppix.

 

[pansophic]

I've tried many of the Live CDs, and still consider KNOPPIX to be the mark for all others, but I lean toward Debian so it is not without bias.

There are excellent instructions on building a customized KNOPPIX distribution at:

http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Knoppix_Remastering_Howto

As my own humble observation, if you had trouble remastering the KNOPPIX CD, then you really don't want to try to get into building one from your RedHat core.


pansophic

 

[stefanwagner]

I used knoppix for some years but switched to Ubuntu, where you get live-, as well as install-CDs.
The newest version (6.06) is - afaik - just one CD for both purposes.

Building a live-cd from a RH-Enterprise Linux might be possible, but not practical, because it's not prepared for that purpose.

A common mistake on creating a live-cd from a download is to choose 'burn data cd' in your burning program, instead of 'iso-image'.
That will not be bootable, and therefore useless.

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[jsaxe]

There is a Debian-based product called "Damn Small Linux" DSL that I've played with and found to be quite useful.

50 MB fits a bizcard cd or a pen drive. check it out at:

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org

jsaxe (Latinists, disregard my sig this time...)

Mundus Vult Decipi

 

[omegabetax]

Thanks to all