Forum Problems Installing LAMS: Re: Newbie: LiveCD, LAMS on a stick or similar?

By: Jun-Dir Liew

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Well I made a first step, got LAMS running entirely off a USB stick. Java, MySQL, and LAMS - about 320MB. It's a bit slow to run off of, but it works. And should work on any machine with Windows 2000 and up, with 512 MB of RAM. The same could be done for Linux, but you would need to replace the JDK and MySQL binaries with Linux ones.

It could do with a bit of streamlining in the startup/shutdown area (basically you have to change the drive letter whenever you change machine if you want to use the included Java, then double click mysqld-nt.exe and run.bat). For anyone who's done the manual install, the process is basically the same, except that I installed mysql without the installer.

Next step up would be a Knoppix-like live cd that you could boot off of, mainly for better performance.

Posted by Jun-Dir Liew