Best (CD Bootable?) Linux Distro for Dominions?

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by PhilD:
But I'm not sure how you'd go about getting Knoppix to write your game data to a real partition... does it do it transparently?

I found it necessary to first copy the entire Dominions 2 install CD to a hard drive, then booted Knoppix. First thing to do at that point is to mount a partition and make it read/write instead of readonly.

I then went from bash into csh, set the HOME environmental to where I wanted to place the install, and ran the unix_install script from the directory I'd copied the CD contents to. (This was necessary because my sole CD drive on the machine is my burner - with 2 CD drives, you could boot from Knoppix and still install from CD.)

After this, you have Dominions installed on your hard disk, but would need to mount & toggle the readwrite status on that partition each time you booted Knoppix, so Dominions2 can write out the data files.

Happily, come the Inquisition, I mean, when the new patch arrives, this won't be necessary anymore.