[NTLUG:Discuss] Debian

[Burton Strauss]

Some of the live CDs allow this because they provide either a union-type
file system (the CD data is 'union'ed with a RAM disk for updates), or
because they actually copy the 'live' portion into a RAM disk.

Either way, the RAM disk can be updated by apt-get or pretty much anything
you want, including rm -rf /, with interesting results...

Most of the time it traces back to using the Knoppix technology.  Live CD
distros which use Knoppix as a base allow these things, possibly w/o
realizing it!

-----Burton
 

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
Of Terry
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 6:22 AM
To: NTLUG Discussion List
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Debian

While experimenting with Ubuntu just now, I ran Ubuntu's live cd on an old
PC and in the process, I found some files on an old drive in that PC that I
wanted to retrieve and thought I'd do it via scp, BUT, alas, I found that
Ubuntu's live CD did NOT have sshd installed.
[openssh-client is installed but not openssh-server] BUT, I was able to use
apt-get to install openssh-server, [even though it's just a live CD!].
My question is:   
Is this particular to Debian and / or Ubuntu? 
In other words: 
Have I just discovered one of the cool treasures of Debian / Ubuntu? 
or Did I just experience yet another Linux epiphany?
In other words:  
Is this new found capability just yet another of the added advantages of
using apt-get?  And, it would follow, that if any live CD from any other
distro included apt-get installed and configured properly, one could do the
same thing?
How about another package manager? Would another package manager be able to
install applications to a live CD [with one single command]?
or....?
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