Mepis is also a live CD and offers the option of installing to hard
disk, a much better interface for it.
Timothy Payne wrote:
I'll look at it but the point was, it can be used without
touching
anything they have installed. Even though with a win98 disk and the
command fdisk /mbr they can reinstall windows. With knoppix they don't
even do that. The hard drive is left untouched, so it's a zero risk
try. I hear "but my windows programs" If you need them, like I do
spend $50 for another hard drive and you can have anything you want on
the win drive.
Tim...
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 23:12, Brian Chase wrote:
>I've tried alot of distro's, and my favorite by far for desktop distro's
>for newbies would be Mepis Linux, check it out, it's like Knoppix, but
>even easier to install to hard drive and more GUI administration tools.
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>Timothy Payne wrote:
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>>Some one told me about
www.knoppix.org the guy made a CD that will boot
>>to KDE and not touch the hard drive. They suggest 128 MB of ram as it
>>only runs off of the CD and has to run in memory. You can run it with
>>less memory but check the site to see how.
>>
>>I downloaded the ISO and burned a CD, and it seemed to find everything
>>on my machine. I never thought it would make it through my firewall but
>>I could just hop on the net or use open office. A little slow, but hey
>>your working off the CD drive.
>>
>>Now you can say "see Linux ain't so bad as Microsoft said"
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>>And when you are done all you need to do is shut down and remove the CD
>>and reboot to what ever is on the hard drive.
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>>Now when FC3 comes out they'll want it installed on their machine.
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>>Tim...
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