[plug] Looking for light weight OS on CD

[James Clarke]

On 12/07/2009, at 9:47 PM, Harry McNally wrote:

> http://www.sysresccd.org/
>
> James Clarke wrote:
>> Hi All Pluggers,
>
>> Requirements:-
>>
>> * Light weight OS on a CD (preferably Linux based)
>> * Let's me read Fat32 and NTFS partitions on harddrive.
>> * Let's me mount a USB thumb drive and write files to it
>> * Wireless network card support (nice to have, but cable OK)
>> * Reasonable web browser (Like Firefox 2 or better)
>> * Works well on a 7 year old Dell Laptop
>
> Hello James
>
> The popular one is System Rescue CD. Have a look on their page for the
> services in your list. I've only used a small part of the SysRescue  
> capabilities.
>
> http://www.sysresccd.org/
>
> HTH
> Harry
>
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Thanks Harry,

That looks like it will do the trick.

Best Regards,

James

http://jamri.smugmug.com