[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu

[Cal Herrmann]

Perhaps I could help make copies for you.  I have a "Bravo" CD copier 
that does a stack of 25 at a time.  My Knoppix CD is a bit old, but if 
someone would lend me a current one (or I suppose I could download it) 
I can run off some, at essentially no cost.
Cal
On Nov 25, 2005, at 6:34 PM, A'fish'ionado wrote:

>
> ANY, livecd distro is going to be slow, unless you can load the CD into
> a ramdisk or something like the knoppix option "toram" (you'll need
> around a gig of mem).
> If you want a livecd that works, I would say just use knoppix.
>
>
> Compared to a Knoppix live CD, the Ubuntu live CD seems really slow. 
> Booting takes like five minutes. I'm worried because the live CD is 
> the first thing the uninitiated will see when I give them the CDs, and 
> it seems horrible to me, and I don't want people getting a bad first 
> impression of Linux. (Unfortunately, I don't have a that many extry 
> Knoppix CDs to hand out.) I need to see if I can find a boot option to 
> bypass the initial curses screens; for some reason, that stage of the 
> boot process took forever.
> --------snip