This is a Live CD, versus an OS that runs off say a flash drive? Thats not optimal if you ask me. That would mean that every time you ran the disc (say after a power outage) I would have to reconfigure all of my settings, right? Which also means I cannot simply just make my settings and then make an image of my drive and be able to duplicate it over to another drive and be back up and running in case of a failure. And the constant spinning of an optical drive would wear down quickly versus a flash drive.
Please correct me if I have any of this wrong.
You can download several different formats:
- LiveCD, mainly for quickly getting any machine up and running
- USB disk image for making a bootable thumb drive option (this allows you to save the settings)
- VMware, Xen, Hyper-V options which let you do all the cool stuff virtualization allows, such as using the free vmware player to run this linux miner along side of your windows or mac desktop.
Again one of the nice things about SuseStudio is that it allows me to publish all of these formats easily. If you set up an account on SuseStudio you can also clone the image and customize it for your own needs. In the future when I need to make an update such as for example the latest version of cgminer, it's easy to publish the change to all versions.