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It has a way to write the CD as multisession in which you can save back to the CD/DVD, even if it is not re-writable. It just adds sessions to the CD and then mounts them stacked (unionfs)
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Puppy linux offers that security and portability
Raul Suarez Feb 22, 2011 2:59am GMT
Hi Kurt,You say "Even with re-writable CDs, I haven't seen any ISO distributions set up to use them for
storage..."
You could have a look at Puppy Linux. http://www.puppylinux.com
It has a way to write the CD as multisession in which you can save back to the CD/DVD, even if it is not re-writable. It just adds sessions to the CD and then mounts them stacked (unionfs)
http://www.puppylinux.com/multi-puppy.htm