Re: Database script - run from CD without installing?

Are you allowed to write files on these miserable appliances? Do they have any kind of httpd?

Since you can't install any of the missing pieces you need (They expect you to demo a perl app without perl?!), perhaps your best bet is do an end-around and boot linux from the cd. Be sure not to write to NT filesystems, AFAIK that is destructive. You could use USB "keychain" storage for your writable file system.

It is also possible to use PAR to produce an executable with perl and all your modules and your script included, but you need a working perl installation on windows to do that. And it still doesn't solve the lack of httpd.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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Re: Database script - run from CD without installing? by jonadab (Parson) on Mar 07, 2005 at 21:28 UTC
Be sure not to write to NT filesystems, AFAIK that is destructive With captive-ntfs, it is not destructive in my experience. The more difficult problem is finding a convenient way, after booting, to rapidly get things configured properly so that Apache will serve out the thing (on localhost presumably), which probably means copying a replacement httpd.conf or whatnot into place (i.e., into the /etc subtree on the RAM-based filesystem) and (re)starting Apache. But yes, it should be possible to do this with Knoppix. "In adjectives, with the addition of inflectional endings, a changeable long vowel (Qamets or Tsere) in an open, propretonic syllable will reduce to Vocal Shewa. This type of change occurs when the open, pretonic syllable of the masculine singular adjective becomes propretonic with the addition of inflectional endings." — Pratico & Van Pelt, BBHG, p68	[reply]

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Re: Database script - run from CD without installing?
by jonadab (Parson) on Mar 07, 2005 at 21:28 UTC

Be sure not to write to NT filesystems, AFAIK that is destructive

With captive-ntfs, it is not destructive in my experience. The more difficult problem is finding a convenient way, after booting, to rapidly get things configured properly so that Apache will serve out the thing (on localhost presumably), which probably means copying a replacement httpd.conf or whatnot into place (i.e., into the /etc subtree on the RAM-based filesystem) and (re)starting Apache.

But yes, it should be possible to do this with Knoppix.

"In adjectives, with the addition of inflectional endings, a changeable long vowel (Qamets or Tsere) in an open, propretonic syllable will reduce to Vocal Shewa. This type of change occurs when the open, pretonic syllable of the masculine singular adjective becomes propretonic with the addition of inflectional endings." — Pratico & Van Pelt, BBHG, p68

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