Linux Live CD's

T4i

I'm really getting into messing with linux now after hearing about the live cd's.

As I'm a total n00b with linux I need to know why my monitor is only picked up as 75Hz and won't go any higher. Is this because its running the standard display drivers?

I wanted to play last night but 75Hz makes me cluck like a chicken.

Also, I've now got SLAX and Knoppix. Are these the best live cd's to use?

Just one more, I see with just one click the live cd can be installed as a OS onto a drive. Now I want a external HDD, doesnt have to be big....Knoppix only needs 500mb to install. So something around 4-10Gig....Anyone seen any cheap lately?

Toxteth_OGrady

Go for DVD live distros, you get much more functionality to play with.

Try Mepis, Jollix, Fedora, Suse, Mandrake.

75 Hz issue is, as you correctly deduced, native drivers in the kernel.

:cool:

TOG

andy88_2

I think there are a couple of ads in the magazines that you can get a pack of several from. I've got SuSe from a cover CD, which is another way of collecting some.

wolfman

Knoppix is probably the best live distro I'm aware of. I keep it just incase anyway if I need to recover files etc... should Windows go down.

Of the live distro's you'll probably want to look at Fedora (Core 3), Suse (9.2), or Mandrake. They are good starter versions of Linux.

A couple of years ago I was using Mandrake, which is user friendly and quite easy to setup. Since I switched to Suse, which was ok, but I prefer, and now have installed Fedora Core 3. The only annoying thing with Fedora is that it's a bit tricky mounting NTFS partitions, Suse was much easier.

Also for Fedora, you can just go to https://www.freshrpms.net where you can download rpm files. Just saves you having to compile everything yourself in order to install an app.