Author Topic: Linux Live CD with Flash (Read 2603 times)

sully! · « **on:** June 24, 2009, 04:16:59 PM »

Does anyone know of a Linux distro that can run as a Live CD and also includes Flash Player, i.e., don't have to install it separately, it's ready to run right from the CD boot.

Czar · « **Reply #1 on:** June 25, 2009, 08:16:04 AM »

I did some searching but everything came back with running it from a Flash drive. Sounds like you may have to build your own LiveCD and include that as a default package.

sully! · « **Reply #2 on:** June 25, 2009, 09:14:30 AM »

That's what I was seeing too, even if I put "-usb" into the search query. I was hoping to avoid that, but looks like I might have to.

_!Rathe!_ · « **Reply #3 on:** June 25, 2009, 09:41:28 AM »

You can try Super OS. It is an off shoot of Ubuntu with lots of additional programs mainstreamed into it including VLC, Flash, Skype, Wine, and Opera. It needs a DVD for the install and there is no mention of whether you can use the DVD as a live CD. You can create a live USB drive with it though.

Czar · « **Reply #4 on:** June 25, 2009, 10:06:19 AM »

Hmm. Aren't most if not all linux distros now doing the live cd with the option to install?

sully! · « **Reply #5 on:** June 25, 2009, 01:15:45 PM »

This would have to be a CD, not all the systems I'm looking to use this on (actually, none I believe) have a DVD drive. I'm trying to put together an Ultimate BootCD For Windows also (http://www.ubcd4win.com), but I keep getting errors when compiling it.

_!Rathe!_ · « **Reply #6 on:** June 25, 2009, 01:41:30 PM »

Use a retail version of the XP cd, and turn off your virus protection. I know that is a no no but UBCD has some programs in it that virus scanners don't like. I tried doing UBCD with a Dell CD and I couldn't get it to work. I just downloaded a retail CD off of a torrent.

sully! · « **Reply #7 on:** June 25, 2009, 02:24:24 PM »

I think that's what I'm running into, I'm using a Dell OEM CD as my source disc.

sully! · « **Reply #8 on:** July 06, 2009, 02:44:23 PM »

So I've turned my focus to getting this UBCD4Win working, but I don't have any retail copies of XP accessible, they're all OEM or "Corporate" versions. Does anyone have a retail version of XP available that they could "loan" me so I can grab the correct files for UBCD4Win to build correctly? I keep getting errors during the build process and all indications are pointing to my use of the aforementioned OEM and/or corporate volume license versions of the XP install disc.

If you have it available, PM me and I can get you access to my FTP server to upload a RAR/ZIP/7z/whatever of the disc. I'm not sure if it has to be a bootable ISO image though, so maybe if you could capture an image of the disc before compressing it might work better.

Thanks.

_!Rathe!_ · « **Reply #9 on:** July 06, 2009, 03:10:39 PM »

Try this. Only 580 megs so you should be able to download it in no time at all.

http://www.google.com

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sully! · « **Reply #10 on:** July 06, 2009, 03:44:33 PM »

Link removed for ToS reasons, next time PM me like I asked. Thanks.

The Nstuff · « **Reply #11 on:** July 06, 2009, 05:42:52 PM »

back when i worked in the client infrastructure group at hershey, i built an imaging CD that they use today using WinPE with Windows 2003 server as the source kernel. This allows the image to boot completely into memory allowing you to remove the cd from the drive and the full image continues to run properly. Using XP as the kernel does not allow this and all the apps run off the CD (lots slower). The feature is optional and only useful if you know your target computers will have enough memory to support the whole image.

If you want, we can work on building a new one with whatever apps you want included.

The base Winpe is incredibly basic that boots to a cmd prompt window within an empty space. Included apps are notepad and whatnot. But I had one working with explorer, full networking, and random apps. However, the good news if you have full ntfs support to do whatever you want with local disks.

sully! · « **Reply #12 on:** July 07, 2009, 06:55:46 AM »

The aim for this project is to extend the usable lifetime of some older laptops (4+ years) and/or allow a sandboxed environment that our technicians can use to troubleshoot connectivity in a customer's home without worry of picking up infection from the customer's equipment and carrying it back into our enterprise network. So there won't be a ton of memory in these systems and zero interaction with the hard drive is desired.

So the goal is to have something really with just a browser that they can launch and verify connectivity and (this is where the flash comes in) run some speedtests to verify connection speeds. The desire to have a Windows platform to do this vs. Linux is favorable so that John Q. Public can't claim that we're running some kind of special software that let's us get on the internet when they can't or that we've rigged the speedtest somehow (yes, those people exist, sadly).

The Nstuff · « **Reply #13 on:** July 07, 2009, 06:03:42 PM »

Hmm... the fact that you want a tech to go on-site, pop in a boot-able cd, and expect it to have nic drivers built-in is going to be very very tough.

At Hershey, we have a common desktop architecture where we have a finite # of hardware configurations. So, i was able to include the drivers needed for every hardware configuration in the CD.

To expect a CD to boot and be able to recognize and use the built-in nic of any random computer is going to be incredibly tough, if not impossible.

A thought would be to include drivers for a bunch of popular chipsets and nics, but to also have each tech carry a usb nic with them that you know the CD will be able to recognize and use.

You mentioned 'extend the lifetime of some older laptops' so that sounds like you might also want to run the cd on a work-laptop which would then have a known hardware configuration that you can plan for, with regards to drivers.

_!Rathe!_ · « **Reply #14 on:** July 07, 2009, 06:11:28 PM »

If the laptop is older there is a good chance that Winxp or Linux would have the driver. I know with the 3 or 4 computers I have loaded Ubuntu onto the driver was already on the CD.

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