Surfing on a CD-DVDdrive

craisin · #1 September 5th, 2007, 04:58 PM

if I assembled a old PC say a high spec P3 with just one drive a CD or DVD drive ,a network card. to surf the net without a hard drive

would it use more bandwidth than normal or less. Anyone know for sure

craisin · #2 September 6th, 2007, 04:10 AM

a ubuntu Live CD or DVD was the intended OS got Broadband anyone???

JoeC0180 · #3 September 6th, 2007, 09:26 AM

I don't see why it would use any more or less, it would be the same amount. Overall, you may end up using less because it will prevent you from actually downloading anything from the net unless you connected a flash driver or something. You will use the same amount of bandwidth to load a page on a live cd as you would if it was installed to the hard disk.

**smurfy** · #4 September 6th, 2007, 01:59 PM

Depends on how much RAM you can give it.
Any web browser caches data. Using a live CD means the cache is in RAM, not on a hard disk. As the O/S and browser use up the available RAM, the cache will be overwritten more often on a Live CD than on a hard drive install. So the browser will have to re-download content more often because it is no longer in the local cache and therefore YES, it will utilise more of your broadband data cap than a hard drive install.
Some live CDs (e.g. Mandriva) allow you to use a USB memory stick to store user settings and this will include a browser cache so will not have the bandwidth problem.

craisin · #5 September 6th, 2007, 03:00 PM

as a friends young daughter loves to go on Bebo when they come round. On my XP Home Edition She gets lots of errors

and her ears must be painted on

average teenager.

craisin · #6 September 6th, 2007, 03:03 PM

just had early morning visiters sobering up

craisin · #7 September 6th, 2007, 03:42 PM

Hi Smurfy fellow kiwi bought a brand new AOpen AX6B Plus slot one 4 Ram slots 1gig max theres 2x256+2x128=768mb at present. Got the AOpen off trade me from Christchurch for $1+$8postage

its got a slocket with a socket370 733mhz 133fsb

got a couple EPOX Slot1 one from ch ch does 133fsb but 512mb max ram. Cool thanks

**kage** · #8 September 7th, 2007, 05:49 AM

You should be able to browse the internet using a live-cd without any problems, however I wouldn't suggest the Ubuntu live-cd. Since it uses Gnome, which is highly resource hungry, its just not a good option. Slax, DSL, or even Knoppix (which you can configure to run a lighter window manager then the default, KDE) would be your best bets for that machine.

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SLAX is fast and beautiful Linux operating system which fits on small (3.14") CD-ROM disc. It runs directly from the CD (or USB) without installing. The Live CD described here is based on the Slackware Linux distribution and uses Unification File System

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Damn Small Linux (DSL) is small enough and smart enough to do the following things: (also known as unionfs), allowing read-only filesystem to behave as a writable one, saving all changes to memory.

Boot from a business card CD as a live linux distribution (LiveCD)
Boot from a USB pen drive
Boot from within a host operating system (that's right, it can run *inside* Windows)
Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call "frugal install"
Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install
Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram
Run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you will be amazed at how fast your computer can be!)
Modularly grow -- DSL is highly extendable without the need to customize

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Knoppix is a bootable CD with the freedom to copy it and give it away to anyone. It contains a collection of GNU/Linux (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html) software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. Knoppix can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything.

craisin · #9 October 3rd, 2007, 02:57 PM

Hi folks special hi to fellow kiwi Smurfy

Just bought Puppy Linux off Trade Me online auctions. I think this will be more suitable

**kage** · #10 October 4th, 2007, 03:04 AM

You bought Puppy Linux? If you check their website, you will see the system is free to anyone that wishes to use it. You do not have to buy linux.

**smurfy** · #11 October 11th, 2007, 02:20 AM

kage, braodband internet connections in NZ suck - most have a data cap that mean you start paying extra when you get over (say) 2GB for the month. If you want to download a DVD distro, most times it's cheaper to buy. Linux distros do allow this distribution method provided the distributor is only charging for media and packaging, not the software itself.
Before I got an un-capped (but slower speed) broadband plan, I got most of my Distros off Magazine cover disks.