Spec me a Live CD

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

A friends PC needs a re-format, its buggered. However muggins here needs to burn her photos off the hard drive and onto a CD before that happens.

So, spec me a LiveCD distro that is easy to use, that I can just boot up, then use to burn off a couple of CD's before I nuke the HDD.

Cheers.

 

[NicNac]

pretty much any live-cd can do that If I to choose it would be something debian based is what I know best try looking over at distrowatch

 

[BillytheImpaler]

If she only has one optical drive it will probably flip out if you remove the CD while it's running. Backing up to USB would be a better bet. Ubuntu's NTFS support is pretty much bulletproof.

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

If she only has one optical drive it will probably flip out if you remove the CD while it's running. Backing up to USB would be a better bet. Ubuntu's NTFS support is pretty much bulletproof.

Good point, why didn't I think of that?

I'll bring my 500GB external HDD with me, that'll be enough.

Cheers!

 

[LizardKing]

A few of the live cd's can run without the cd in (i think Ubuntu can) you just have to pass a command on the boot loader. but external hd is the best idea

 

[NicNac]

I'm sure with puppy you can remove the cd once its loaded and even use the optical drive to burn stuff off.

 

[Enfield]

Slax, takes a few minutes to install onto USB stick.

Can read NTFS volumes.

 

[NicNac]

Knoppix is the daddy of live cd's try that.

 

[Sharki]

ubuntu i think can, i use it on an extra machine im pretty sure i removed it to load a cd and see how the music player was like

 

[brummie]

Ubuntu works well, though it doesnt detect my HDMI well. most the others do not detect it at all and leave me at the cmd prompt.