At 12:39 PM 4/3/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>You can boot Linux from anything that your BIOS supports.  The talk
>about Live CDs booting from CD is just a specific sub-set of Linux that
>does not even require you to have a hard drive.  These Live CDs are
>useful to demonstrate Linux, or to test Linux, or to recover data from a
>non-bootable Windows system.   They aren't really typical of an
>installed Linux system (though many of them *are* isntallable to the
>hard drive).
>
>Mark
>
>
>Whew!  Thanks mark.  Since I am building a dedicated machine, I would 
>really like for it to be stand alone.  Thre motherboard I'm using supports 
>older socket 7 processors.  My guess is that that bios should be fairly 
>modern.  Someone said this learning curve is steep.  If it gets any 
>steeper, I'm gonna need oxygen!


Thanks,
Mike


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