lol i didnt see tht sorry.Originally posted by atiVidia+10 April 2004 - 21:14--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (atiVidia @ 10 April 2004 - 21:14)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Originally posted by shn@10 April 2004 - 17:13
<!--QuoteBegin-atiVidia@9 April 2004 - 23:23
u missed knoppix.
knoppix is bootable from CD amd, as such, is excellent as an emergency boot disk. although with linux, you cannot write to any NTFS partitions, you can still read them, and thus, can burn any files on them to a cd with the included CD authoring software. You cannot burn CDs or DVDs unless you have the Knoppix bootable CD in another CD drive. Knoppix converts a small space on the RAM into a ramdrive and extracts itself in realtime to the dedicated portion of RAM. It does not copy any part of itself to the hard drive (however if a part of a hard drive is messed up it may not be able to boot at all, due to a failed attempt at scanning the drive. Knoppix is very useful as a boot CD, and can be used to recover lost files as well. It runs like any other version of linux. Just be sure to dload the English version if you speak english, and not the german version . the Knoppix iso file is available at:
Pros:
- boots from the CD only and does not rely on the HDD at all
- can be used for file recovery
- can entertain you for a small while with games like Frozen Bubble and Battleship
- awesome for newbies and people who have a random phobia of installing things for the first time.
- comes with StarOffice, C++ dev software, etc. making for a decent OS
- features enough software to play DVDs, DivXs, mp3s, etc.
- can be dloaded off of bittorrent
Cons
- takes up a cd drive, and thus, the used cd drive cannot be used to do anything else during your current linux session.
- may be slow at times
- may be too limited for linux gurus (they could only squeeze 2 gigs (compressed into 700 megs) onto the ISO.
- Settings are not retained.
- VERY hard, if not impossible, to make it run off of the hard drive (this distro was intended only as a CD BOOT release)
- can entertain you for a small while with games like Frozen Bubble and Battleship
Knoppix Homepage
That second to last statement is FALSE.
Where do peole get their info from?
If you call that hard and impossible theN STAY AWAY FROM LINUX.Code:# Press CTRL-ALT-F1, to get a root console. You should see a shell prompt # Type: knx-hdinstall
half of the stuff i posted was on another forum [/b][/quote]
No prob, Linux Section is generic anyway. Copy and paste all you like.
Bookmarks