Hello Cameron, Wednesday, May 3, 2006, 12:30:06 AM, you wrote:
CS> Yes, exactly so. The "live cd" versions of the various Linux flavours CS> actually do not do an install, which is what is so nice about them CS> for experimentation. Instead, they boot and run Linux from the CD CS> and don't touch your machine's hard drive. In this way you can try CS> a few things before commiting to a real install. About a year ago, I was experimenting with various 'Live CD's and came across on 'Live BSD' CD that mounted all filesystems on a dual-boot machine (ext3, NTFS and FAT32), and did not properly unmount any of them, in the shutdown process. This caused the NTFS partition (Windows 2k Pro) to become unbootable (probably should not have been mounted at all), and the FAT32 partitions to complain, and require a scandisk to repair some errors, and ext3 to fsck on boot. I mention this because 'not all Live CD's are created equal', and it is a good idea to test them on a non-critical box, before running them in a production environment, or to perform diagnostics on a client's machine. -wittig website: http://www.robertwittig.com/ . To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
