FW: Custom Recovery CD.

[John (EBo) David]

Gary Nichols wrote:
> 
> Ah, you want this little gem:
> 
> http://open-projects.linuxcare.com/BBC/
> 
> The source is available for making your own magical cd to do whatever
> you wish.  A co-worker gave me one of the pre-fab ones from linuxcare
> and it ROCKS!  It's on a mini-cd, fits in my pocket and works great.  If
> through some magical voodoo we have a linux machine that needs some TLC,
> you just reboot with the magic CD and it boots right into a pretty X
> session with all your partitions mounted and ready to go.  You can add
> networking, etc...  let me know how this works for you.

> Bootable Business Card
> 
>       The Linuxcare BBC is a complete miniature Linux system on a bootable CD, cut
>       to the size and shape of a business card. It should work in almost any
>       PC-compatible machine capable of booting CD-ROMs. Once booted, it provides
>       over 100M of software, including a full complement of recovery and rescue
>       software. It also provides perl, X Windows, mozilla, pilotlink, support for wireless
>       networking, and a lot more.

oooooo... now THIS looks COOL!!!

they say:

>    If you are the leader of a Linux User Group and would like to request copies of the
>       BBC for your LUG, please complete the Linuxcare Community Request Form.
>       Due to high demand, we unfortunately are unable to send our BBC to individuals.
>       Our BBC's are not available for sale.

How is goign to order them for the next intsllfest, meeting, etc? ;-)

  EBo --