Hi,

I wanted to know whether its possible to "Run Linux on Windows through CD"

ie, basically I will run my windows only and I should be able to insert the CD in the windows CD Drive and invoke Linux from that.

Has anybody tried this before, is their any tool/software which can help me in doing this ???

I need this as the software product which we develop in our company is Linux based and we wanted to ship the complete linux with our software, so that our customer can just put the CD in the cddrive and start linux and check our trial demo of the product from his windows machine itself.

Let me know & TIA.

Vijay.

Hi sunnyvijay!!!

Not sure if that's possible. But I've a much better alternative for you, and it's called a Linux Live CD. The most used Live distribution at the moment is Knoppix. It works like this, you put the CD on the drive and turn the computer on. It will boot into Linux without installing a single thing on the HD or bootloader. It detects hardware flawlessly and at the end, you get a powerful desktop based on Debian Linux with Office and much more applications in a total over 2GB worth of software.

If later you decide to install Knoppix into your HD, one command at the terminal and it's done .

Still, depending how your program is, there should be no problems making a port for Windows: gtk, qt and other libraries has a win32 version as far as I know .

It's also possible to run applications for Linux in Windows with cywin, but I never did that...

Good luck!

Hi ,

Thanks for the info.

But our product requires RedHat linux and some specific rpm`s otherwise which the product might not run.

Is it possible to have RedHat Linux on Knoppix instead of Debian Linux.

Thanks,

Vijay.

Oops, little mixed up. Knoppix is Debian "made easier". It does, include some features from Redhat though, as hardware detection if I'm not mistaken. So no, you cannot get Redhat on Knoppix .

Still, what is that your program needs from Redhat? Even if it is packaged as .rpm, Debian can install it or even convert .rpm to .deb without a problem using Alien...

>> what is that your program needs from Redhat?
Ok, our programs runs on RedHat7.2 and expects these rpm`s to be installed.

glibc
cpp
gcc
ncurses
XFree86
openmotif
gdb
nscd
tar
libstdc++
kernel 2.4.18-5

If its possible to get these rpm's into the knoppix, I can give it a try.