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A build of an operating system that can run directly from a CD/DVD disk or image. Live CDs are often used to demo the software, to provide a full recovery environment, or to present a richer installation experience.

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What is the purpose or intention of the "Live CD/DVD" checkbox in a VirtualBox VM's Machine Settings Storage screen?

Instructions for installing operating systems inside a VirtualBox virtual machine sometimes advise that the user ensures that the "Live CD/DVD" checkbox is checked. Other instructions don't mention this checkbox at all. What is the purpose of this…
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Where is data on a non-persistant Live CD stored?

When I boot up Linux Mint from a Live CD, I am able to save files to the "File System". But where are these files being saved to? Can't be the disc, since it's a CDR. I don't think it's stored in the RAM, because it can only hold so much data and…
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How to create a LIVE CD for an Application

There are Live CDs that boot up an OS and allow you to use it without installation. I was wondering if there is an easy way to customize a Live CD so that it only loads what is necessary to run one application, and runs that application.
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Recommend Linux Live CD/DVD with R installed

Well, the title is pretty much self-explanatory. I've seen Quantian, but it's pretty outdated, there's UberStudent... anything else worth mentioning? I'm especially interested in your experiences with Live CD/DVD's, regarding computational speed,…
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How to see the logcat into android x86

I am using android-x86 2.2 version as a live cd, adb tool is not avilable to see logcat so suggest some alternative to see system logs.
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Easiest way to create a custom linux distribution

Can someone guide me how I can create a custom linux system in the easiest way? I would like to add programs and libraries of my choice on top of a base platform and offer it for free for download.
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How to use docker to create a minimal live ISO that runs docker?

I'm looking to create a very lightweight live ISO of ubuntu that runs docker. I'd like to be able to create this custom live ISO using a docker container to handle provisioning and all setup steps. Basically, I want to run a Dockerfile that after…
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Add file to ISO with Rock Ridge extensions

I have a ISO creates on linux, which contains files for a bootable livecd system. The ISO uses Rock Ridge to preserve linux permissions. I need to modify this ISO file on a windows system (without booting a linux VM), how would i go around adding a…
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How can I customise an ISO image of Webconverger with a Linux shell script?

I want to write a simple shell script that downloads the latest ISO image of Webconverger and changes the boot parameters of grub in /boot/live.cfg. So this is what I have done so far: #!/bin/bash # 1. Download the ISO wget…
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Expected Program Not Found in PATH or not Executable

I keep running lb build, fixing problem after problem and then running it again, and now i'm getting this message: dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable dpkg: error: 1 expected program not found in PATH or not…
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Do you know alternatives to Buildix?

Buildix is a complete development server (by ThoughtWorks) for Continuous Integration I'm looking for a pre-configured server with Maven, Subversion, Sonar, Nexus...
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Android X86 Gingerbread with Ethernet

I am using android x86 gingerbread live cd, when i am tring to give ip address by Alt + F1 su ifconfig "ip address" eth0 up Its showing SIOCSIFADDR(no such device)
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How to extract "installed" file structure from Fedora LiveCD

This isnt strictly speaking programming but who understands Linux better than programmers who program on it? Essentially I want to be able to extract the final file structure from a LiveCD without having to go through the entire install. I suppose…
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Using overlay2 storage driver with an overlay filesystem

Goal I'm running docker in a live CD and I want to cache the results of docker build, mostly, for when I reboot into this live CD. My idea was to set up an overlayfs in /var/lib/docker. So, I have the below in /etc/fstab: overlay /var/lib/docker…
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ubuntu seed file syntax

All, I have a shell script which is attempting to both copy and install a .deb as part of a late_command. I used what I found from this link as a guide. https://gist.github.com/moonwitch/11100762 Here are the echo commands appending things to the…
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