DrunkenMaster Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 I'm looking for a Live distro that can only boot to the CMD prompt and has some of the Linux text processing tools sed, awk and grep and preferably the Nano editor. One problem is that most don't work with the 9600 cards yet in X. Plus for what I need I don't need X and it takes too long to boot. I need SED in particular and it just doesn't work well in Windows. esp with redirection and reg expressions. Any ideas? I don't feel like dual-booting just to use every once in a while. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/159236-live-cd-with-cmd-prompt-only/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bontakun Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 the gentoo install disk acts as a live disk and gives a command prompt with a full set of progs to use slax (my fav linux live cd) starts at a command prompt then you can choose to load kde and the gui Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/159236-live-cd-with-cmd-prompt-only/#findComment-1994625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordHatrus Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 I think ANY knoppix will let you set the boot parameters to not boot X on startup. I have a lovely live linux cd that I have labelled 'LAN SERVER' and I'm not sure where I got it, or whats its name is... but it seems perfect... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/159236-live-cd-with-cmd-prompt-only/#findComment-1994630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunkenMaster Posted April 20, 2004 Author Share Posted April 20, 2004 The Beav said: the gentoo install disk acts as a live disk and gives a command prompt with a full set of progs to useslax (my fav linux live cd) starts at a command prompt then you can choose to load kde and the gui Thanks, I noticed it has SED. I'll give it a try since I like using Slackware best. It didn't mention anywhere on the site that you *could* boot it without X. The mirrors are a bit slow and so's the Torrent. I'll get it tommorrow. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/159236-live-cd-with-cmd-prompt-only/#findComment-1994722 Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 20, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 20, 2004 I'm thinking Damn Small Linux here... Fits on a business card sized CD, too! :yes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/159236-live-cd-with-cmd-prompt-only/#findComment-1994840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveHope Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 CD? Why not use a floppy...give tomsrtbt a try. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/159236-live-cd-with-cmd-prompt-only/#findComment-1996291 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted April 20, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 20, 2004 LNX-BBC :yes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/159236-live-cd-with-cmd-prompt-only/#findComment-1996550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_daemon Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 I must say either the gentoo live cd (the 2004 one fixed the stupid problems with DHCP) or tomsrtbt. Tomsrtbt has everything you want on floppy. I beleive he has a CD iso as well. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/159236-live-cd-with-cmd-prompt-only/#findComment-2000110 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dewy Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 Some one hs already said SLAX but Thomas (The Deveoper) has rleased a MiniSlax which the ISO is 30MB It is the standard cd with x and any of the x dependent Programs. You can find it here - ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/linux-live.org/SLAX-4.0.x/mini-slax - Hope it helps =) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/159236-live-cd-with-cmd-prompt-only/#findComment-2000540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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