[wplug] Question from a newbie

Gonffen gonffen at gonffen.cjb.net
Sun Nov 3 20:25:31 EST 2002


Where can do you get the Knoppix bootable CD?

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-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
bgtrio at yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 8:14 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: RE: [wplug] Question from a newbie

>  Don't you just wish there was some way
> of running two operating systems on one partition...


Until RedHat 7.3, you could install the system inside of an existing dos

partition and just use a floppy to boot into it whenever you wanted to
use 
it- the linux filesystem just looked like a big file (max 2Gigabytes)
from 
inside windows, but when you boot into linux the whole windows partition

is available to you.

It may sound like that 2Gig partition size would be a limitation, but 
since you can access the whole windows partition anyway, it's no big
deal.  

I successfully used this setup for a while under win98 on a work
thinkpad.  
I even ran Lotus Notes with full functionality under Wine.  I don't know

if you can use fat with WinXP, but I know you can with win2k.

Here's another idea, the Knoppix bootable cd is pretty sweet, it's based

on debian but has much improved hardware detection.  This might suit
some 
of your needs, and you don't have to do any installation with it, just 
boot from it.  Of course you'll need to save your work somewhere other 
than the (read-only) cd, but hey, if you don't want to install anything,

you have to expect some compromises.  Insert a floppy or mount a
partition 
from your hard drive in this case.

But I've been getting by without Microsoft software of any sort on any
of 
my machines for almost a year now.   I feel very very good about it, and

I've found free software replacements for pretty much everything I want 
on my machine.

Bryguy



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