On Wed, September 19, 2007 14:05, Aidan Gauland wrote: > Hello, > > > I have decided there are too many things too learn about > customising live CDs to be worth it for me. So I'm going to install DSL to > a USB pen drive to play with. BUT... how do I find out if the pen drive I > have acts like a ZIP drive, or a hard disk drive? Is it as simple as > whether it has a partition table, or just one filesystem on the whole > device?
I'm not sure what the mechanism is, but here's a tutorial. http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/01/02/all-in-one-usb-dsl The tricky part is making sure your PC is capable of booting from a USB device. Most modern ones are, but you have to turn on the capability (or verify its existence) in the BIOS. This is mentioned in step 7 of the tutorial. > And on an unrelated matter: what would be the closest free and open > source program to Microsoft Front Page? I have never used it, but I'm > taking this REALLY brain-dead distance course in "Internet and webpages", > and the people running this thing said, before I applied, that using Linux > would be no problem, and yet they only give instructions for MS Front > Page. I've just been using Emacs (which I > prefer anyway), but I would like to know what would have the closest > interface to Micro...MS..... oh don't make me type all that again! Hmm. If you can't use FrontPage, but you don't think emacs is suitable then can I suggest 'vi'? I have heard that emacs will do many of the things that vi does, so you should have no problem. All joking aside, FrontPage is a web-authoring tool. It provides a WYSIWYG interface to the user, and behind the scenes produces the equivalent HTML. It also allows you to put 'special effects' on your webpage using 'FrontPage Extensions' on the server (which, as you can imagine, you don't really want). It is akin to Adobe DreamWeaver or the defunct Linux Nvu program. Depending on what level your distance learning course is aimed at you will probably find you can achieve the desired results with hand-edited HTML in your favourite text editor. A
