POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.unix: Any live-DVD distros containing PoV-Ray 3.6 (or even 3.7)?

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From: Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann
Subject: Any live-DVD distros containing PoV-Ray 3.6 (or even 3.7)?
Date: 11 Mar 2012 18:43:06
Message: <4f5d2a7a@news.povray.org>

Hi(gh)!

I still have no access to the internet except via an old laptop (only 
256 MiB RAM), my 1.25 GiB Linux machine has a glitch on its mainboard so 
that I cannot connect to the Internet.

Until now I ran Debian aptosid on this computer, but with the Internet 
connection broken down, I'm not able to maintain this distro by using 
apt-get anymore. Now I'm desperately looking for downloadable live DVD 
distros containing at least PoV-Ray 3.6... I tried OpenSuSe 12.1, but 
all attempts to install it failed because of lacking graphics adapter 
support (no KDE).

Now are there such distros? The download file should be smaller than 2 
GiB, as I have to transfer it on a USB stick to the Linux computer...

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Any live-DVD distros containing PoV-Ray 3.6 (or even 3.7)?
Date: 18 Mar 2012 20:48:29
Message: <4f66825d$1@news.povray.org>

On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:42:43 +0100, Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann wrote:

> I tried OpenSuSe 12.1, but all attempts to install it failed because of
> lacking graphics adapter support (no KDE).

Surprised that it didn't work - what hardware are you using?

You can take the LiveCD media and use isohybrid to prepare it to be put 
on a USB stick, and then install anything needed after that.

Or you can use SUSE Studio to build a custom distribution that uses a 
base installation (as stripped down as you want) and add your own stuff 
to it.

Jim

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