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[Tain]

Yeah, another Linux thread. This'll be kinda different, though.

I want to make a live CD for the sole purpose of playing Quake 3.

Probably shouldn't touch the HD.

Is this at all possible? Or easy in any way shape or form for someone who doesn't know much about Linux at all?

Stux seems to be a live distro that can download a Q3 package and nvidia drivers and install them right off the bat, but can I get that on the CD (well, DVD, in this case, it'd have to be) prior to burning?

 

[gblues]

The problem you'll run into isn't getting the stuff onto the CD. That's fairly trivial. The problem will be the complete lack of swap space, since it can't touch the HD. Unless your Live CD will be in a system with beaucoup RAM, the game will probably run like shit.

Nathan

 

[Tain]

Eh, I'm willing to risk it. Q3 isn't the most demanding game, and these machines probably have at least a gig of ram...

Hell, maybe it can touch the HD, though I'm betting that NTFS support isn't the most common thing among livecd distros.

 

[Teknopathetic]

What Gblues said. I dunno if they still do it, but there was a way you could install linux so that you didn't need to partition anything, it would put an image of the installation on a FAT/NTFS hard drive, and you'd boot via floppy. Even that's still slower than a real partition, but perhaps it's a better option?

 

[Tain]

These PCs run a complete file scan upon starting WinXP, almost seems like reimaging.

That said, thanks for at least letting me know it's possible. I'll read into it and dick around tonight.

Any starting points?