[wplug] Question from a newbie
bgtrio at yahoo.com
bgtrio at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 3 20:43:44 EST 2002
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
That's the homepage for the distribution, there's a list of servers there
where you cna download iso images that can then be burned to CD. If
you're impatient, this URL will take you to the click-through to the
canadian mirror:
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/download.php3?lang=en&link=ftp://ftp.it.ca/pub/mirrors/knoppix/
I am very impressed so far with this cd-based distro, best I've seen so
far.
Bryon
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Gonffen wrote:
> Where can do you get the Knoppix bootable CD?
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> > 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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