Introduction What's a Live-CD ? Cool software Why yet another Live-CD ? Get the ISO Burn the ISO Important notes |
Nbed-Nakooki presentation![]() IntroductionNbed-Nakooki is a generalist GNU/Linux Live-CD, for the x86 platform. It is based entirely on two projects :
What's a live-CD ?You can boot your computer, without installing anything, even if you don't have a hard Drive. According to the boot option you choose you then reach either a classic Linux shell (text mode), or a nice Graphical login screen (GDM) that offers, at your preference:
Some of the cool software provided on the Live-CD
Really only good stuff as you can see. Also includes Internet connectivity (rtc, dsl with pppoe, dhcp, etc.) and our small firewall (NanoFW) for a safe browsing experience. Why yet another Live-CD ?Mostly for the fun, let's be honest ! It's also the
result of the work on Nbed, that will offer many more
things in the future.
Since Nakooki is a simple collection of packages definitions, to be compiled by yourself - without any installation CD or such, Nbed-Nakooki is a simple opportunity to allow people testing and installing (with Nbed-HD-install) a Nakooki system on their Hard Drive without special skills required. However, even if this can't be compared in terms of features, support, etc. Nbed-Nakooki has the following advantages:
Get and check the ISO imageGet the latest release from http://nakooki.freecontrib.org/nakooki/packages/Nbed-Nakooki/1.0/ Also get the corresponding MD5 file then check the file you download is correct, before you burn it on a CD. For example, foobar.iso and foobar.MD5 were stored under /var/tmp: $ cd /var/tmp $ md5sum -c foobar.MD5 It should print OK, or you'll have to re-download the file. Burn the ISO image... with your favorite tool, under MS-Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux etc. No special option to be used, simply select ISO data CD, and you're all done. The ISO is bootable in itself, no need to select Create a bootable CD or similar, that would damage the result. For *nix users: $ cdrecord -v dev=<cdr device> /var/tmp/foobar.iso
Important notesThis CD will only work in IDE CD drives, not SCSI ones. The kernel was compiled with the x86 generic compatible support, thus older machines should work too (with enough RAM) - but It cannot be guaranteed, since untested. Give it a try and please feedback (on the newsgroup) ! |