Re: NetBSD Live CD/PostgreSQL?

Ian Harding wrote:
> A really cool CD image is available for NetBSD which boots and runs NetBSD/KDE/KOffice/Samba without using a hard drive.
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> I am not smart enough to know exactly how it works, but it must be creating some kind of magic hard drive in memory.
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> I know similar questions have been asked before, but I think they implied using the on-disk operating system. The question is, is it theoretically possible, given enough system resources, to create such a thing with just the OS and a PostgreSQL server installation to use for demonstrating the capabilities of PG to someone who does not want to install it?
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> ftp://smaug.fh-regensburg.de/pub/NetBSD/life-cd/

check out Knoppix, this is i Linux Live CD based on Debian.
ISO images can be downloaded at http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

It does not contain postgresql but it is possible to change the contents
of the cd. i didn't do it myself but i have a description how to
'remaster' the knoppix cd. If you don't find out how to do it on the web
page, i can mail you the description - it is in german, so i have first
to translate it :)

Tina

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