Hi, I'm looking for a Distro of Linux that will boot *and* RUN from CD. I would like to use this CD to do recovery on DOS / Windows PC's. I would like it to have the following: O Windowed Desktop like Gnome or KDE (X-Windows by itself is a bit too crude). O DOSEMU. O Internet Capability with Browser (Netscape is fine). O Access to the local FAT file systems (with Long File Name support, NTFS support would be nice too). O Ability to connect to the local NT Based Network. Is this accomplished through Samba? O Some sort of GUI file manager O Wine would be nice but not necessary. Can anyone recommened a good distro? I am a DOS / Windows user mainly, but I did use Unix a lot about 10 years ago. I thought a Linux that could be used to 'support' DOS would be a great way to go. I have looked at Knoppix but it seems to have way more than I need. Is there a way to customize Knoppix or is there a slimmer distro that would be better? Thanks in Advance, -Michael

http://lbt.linuxcare.com/notes.epl http://911cd.tripod.com/ http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/ http://www.ivarch.com/programs/rescue.shtml

While links are good, I was looking for an actual recommendation, I.E. from someone who has actually used the package they are referring me to. I know how to use Google. Thanks anyway. -Michael

Knoppix - not sure of the url. It should have everything you are looking for but not sure of the DOSEMU.

well i use a http://sourceforge.net/projects/repairlix/ but i'm sure you've heard of http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/ im happy with both? why are you using linux to repair computers if your looking to repair make a dos bootable cd how many commands do you need? have you looked at http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/diskcommander.asp this program is bootable from a cd with a windows 2000 interface and recovers passwords and runs current programs including networking multiple partitions etc... very powerful and it boots to windows on a cd interesting? i like it? very expensive too but if you search with imesh.com then you'll find it under "disk commander" Good luck

My 2 favorites are Mandrake (www.mandrakesoft.com) and Debian (www.debian.org). Mandrake looks really neat, and the people at Debian have a new, modern outlook on computer software. They both have everything you wanted (I'm not absolutely sure about Mandrake having Wine, but I think it does) in a Linux distro. Also, any Linux distro can connect to Windows NT networks, even participate as a PDC using the Samba software (www.samba.org) that comes with most distributions. It comes with Mandrake and Debian.

try demolinux