It's on it's way down, albet at 53kb but I'll be in be in bed when it's done. T Thanks, Tim... On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 00:54, Brian Chase wrote: > 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... > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > > > > > >
