difference between live and boot cd

[Huntyboy102]

What is the difference between live and boot cd and which one should i use?

 

[maxwellmelon]

a live cd allows you to run a fully working operating system off of a cd without installing it to a hard drive. (usefull for testing an os or doing repairs to a file system repairs to a hard drive without having to do a clean install). it still has the boot software a boot cd has plus an os on the cd also

a boot cd just allows the computer to boot to a point where you can load an operating system or another program. usually this will just load a command promt to load the program you need.

 

[USAFRet]

Which one you should use depends on what you are actually trying to do.