Welcome to LNX-BBC 2.1
What is the LNX-BBC?
You may be seeing this under the Windows environment as an introduction.
This disc is intended for experienced Linux users, or people of a highly
experimental interest in Linux. If that doesn't describe you, feel free to
pass the disc on to a techie friend.
The wallet-sized CD in your computer is the Linux
Bootable Business Card, a bootable rescue disc based
on GNU/Linux. It contains roughly 1,000 Linux programs that can:
- attempt repair or recovery of data on a failed computer
- perform intrusion post-mortem analysis
- test memory, hardware, and the local network segment
- offer temporary networking services
- securely connect to other stations or the internet
- act as a temporary workstation - you can enjoy a graphical
environment, browse the web, even play music
The LNX-BBC philosophy is "leave no trace". The disc is designed
to make your data available to you, but in read-only form. It's a
perfect haven from which to rescue or study a system. You can even
use a station which has no hard drive at all, since the LNX-BBC works
entirely from temporary space in your computer's memory for writable
space, and from the CD-ROM for read-only access.
At your request, it can also turn on swapping to aid memory usage,
download and run software from our servers, maybe even install a
GNU/Linux operating system for you. What you can do with it is
limited only by your time and creativity.
Hardware Requirements
The LNX-BBC only needs a PC-compatible computer, 80386 or better,
with 16 MB of RAM. It has been rumored to work in emulated PC environments,
but if you succeed at that, our developers would love to hear from you.
If you are having boot trouble...
If you are viewing this because it did not boot and you are wondering
how to make it boot:
- If your BIOS is capable of booting from CD-ROM, but you arrived in
your original OS instead, you'll have to reboot and poke around in
there yourself.
- Some CD-ROM trays either have imperfect balance or not enough plastic
to support a business card disc, and will only properly deal with round CDs.
All the software on this disc is free and you may copy it onto other media and
give it to as many friends as you like. Of course you'll need CD
burning software; Linux Gazette
has some good notes on doing it under Windows. We recommend cdrecord.
- If your BIOS cannot boot from CDROM, you can take the diskette image
(/lnx.img) and write it directly onto a floppy diskette
which will boot and seek out the CD.
- in DOS: use /rawrite/RAWRITE2.EXE
- in Windows: use /rawrite/rawritewin.exe
- in your favorite UNIX-like OS (Linux, BSD, Solaris):
dd if=/mnt/cdrom/lnx.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
18k is the standard floppy tracksize so it's much faster;
make sure to mention the correct mountpoint and floppy device node.
Share and enjoy!
-- The LNX-BBC development team
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