This is how I have produced a Live Linux based Demo CD.

With this CD you can demonstrate or distribute a joomla website directly from a cd. Nothing is installed on the users hard drive. All they have to do is to reboot their computer from the CD.

Note that any changes you make whilst runing the CD will be lost when you reboot.

This CD is created using LAMPPIX a Live CD with the web server Apache, the databases MySQL and PostgreSQL and the programming languages PHP and Perl. It's based on Klaus Knopper's KNOPPIX and Damn Small Linux.

Designed for demonstrating and testing dynamic websites, Lamppix is ideally suited for creating self booting demo CD-Roms of your latest website or php based application. All in a little over 150Mb which leaves plenty of room for your site.

Imagine, your boss wanted you to create a Joomla! website. You got everything running, everything works. Now, he wants you to show him the site on his PC. You take your Joomla! Demo CD, let it boot and show him everything off the CD! There's no need to change anything on his PC.

Best of all because your site is on a read-only CD you can play with at much as you like and all you have to do to get back to the original is to reboot.

Everything is pre-configured, so you can simply insert the CD, and watch as Linux boots and Firefox is started with Joomla! running. Firefox is configured so that when it is closed the PC shuts down, so that the user doesn't even have to know anything about linux to see your demo.