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. > > > Timothy Payne wrote: > > >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" > > > >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. > > > >Now when FC3 comes out they'll want it installed on their machine. > > > >Tim... > > > > > >
