[ale] Live CD to drop on my Dad's computer over thanksgiving?

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)]

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 10:17 -0500, Joshua Kite wrote:
> I've enjoyed Knoppix as a rescue CD.  It's fine for a demo, but it's
> important to let anyone who's looking at it understand that it's a
> system hog and will run better once installed.

The only thing it consumes is I/O bandwidth to the CD-ROM.  Reading
anything off CD is slow.  Including having a root filesystem on a CD.