Free CDs
BartPE
BartPE (Bart’s Preinstalled Environment) is a lightweight variant of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 32bit operating systems, similar to a Windows Preinstallation Environment, which can be run from a Live CD or Live USB drive.
A BartPE system image is created using PE Builder, a freeware program created by Bart Lagerweij. It requires [...]
A live CD, live DVD, or live disc is a CD or DVD containing a bootable computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they have the ability to run a complete, modern operating system on a computer lacking mutable secondary storage, such as a hard disk drive. Live USB flash drives are similar [...]
There is no accepted definition of what a mini distribution is. Typically, mini Linux distros are able to run on less powerful computers than standard Linux distributions. This makes them ideal for older computers. I compiled a list of 5 popular mini Linux distros.
1, Damn Small Linux
Damn Small Linux is a business card size (50MB) [...]
Gavotte Ramdisk is a free RAM disk software for Windows. It doesn’t have virtual disk size limitation, supports popular FAT16, FAT32, NTFS filesystems, and supports Windows 2000 operating system and above including Vista.
It is one of my favourite RAM disk. I use it on my PC to store temporary files and also I use it [...]
I collected some free RAM disks for Windows here. I use RAM disk on my PC to store temporary files and on my bootable Windows Xp live CD to store/copy/extract etc files.
My free RAM disk collection:
Gavotte Ramdisk alias RRamDisk
Freeware RRamdisk.sys, originally written by Gavotte based on Microsoft’s Ramdisk.sys, and later being added a [...]
A RAM disk acts as a virtual drive on your system. It allows you to create directories, copy files to and from it, etc…. The data however is not written onto a hard disk, but remains purely stored into a particular part of the RAM memory. Hard disks have mechanical parts that are needed to [...]
Previously I used a dual-boot system with Windows XP and Debian, but in that box the operating systems was separated on two different hard drives. But now I need a dual boot system on a single hard drive. Setting up a dual boot system takes a little effort, but it is not a magic.
Tools/Resources:
Operating systems: Windows XP [...]
I always forget how can I set a root password in Knoppix. So, this is a memo for me, and you, if you forget it, like me.
Go to Penguin menu>Set password for root
Set your password in the popup window.
You don’t need to reboot your sytem and press the pause key during boot just to find out what BIOS version you are running. You can determine the BIOS version and other BOIS related datas from Linux command line.
Please consider I use Debian.
You need the dmidecode package installed in your system, so first check the [...]
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