Knoppix (or other) Bootable DVD for Avogadro?

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I’ve been asked to do some training for Avogadro users at the Army Research Lab next week.

Due to security issues, they can’t install things on their computers until they’ve been OK’ed (which takes eons, even with open source). So for the demo, they would like to have me burn a bootable DVD of Knoppix or a similar distribution.

I don’t have much experience with this kind of thing. Can anyone point me at a tutorial for getting a bootable distro set up with all the Avogadro components?

Thanks so much…
-Geoff

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Hi Geoff,

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Geoffrey Hutchison geoff.hutchison@gmail.com wrote:

I don’t have much experience with this kind of thing. Can anyone point me at a tutorial for getting a bootable distro set up with all the Avogadro components?

I used Puppy Linux a while back for something similar:

http://puppylinux.org/

It’s a distro that can be installed on a DVD-RW or flash drive, and
back when I used it the filesystem would be updated by writing to the
DVD or flash drive, so unlike normal boot disks, sessions could
persist between boots until the media was full. Simply installing
avogadro on a clean puppy install and then redistributing the new
images should work for what you need without too much trouble.

Hrm, I can’t find it saying anywhere that it still does this, but I
haven’t looked that hard. I did find this, though:

http://puppylinux.org/main/Puplet%20for%20special%20features.htm

Dave