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.
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...
