Thank you all,

so there is a Mandrake live distrbution (I didn't know the expression, so I 
could not do a search on this - sorry). 

I am going to try it when I buy something new.

Patrik

On Saturday 27 July 2002 00:41, shane wrote:
> On Friday 26 July 2002 2:19 pm, Patrik Marxer did speak unto the huddled
>
> masses, saying:
> > I know that there is a Linux Version called Knoppix
> > (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/) which can be installed without touching
> > the HD. I haven't tried it, but I believe one person cannot put together
> > a distribution with support for as much exotic hardware as a company like
> > mandrake can.
> >
> > So finally my questions:
> > 1) Is there a way to achieve all this by any other means? If so - please
> > tell me!
> > 2) Is it difficult to change a distribution so that it stays in the ram
> > only and writes nothing to the HD?
> > (By the way: why is it the default to overwrite the MBR in the Mandrake
> > distribution? Suse defaults to floppy which seems more reasonable to me)
>
> the SuSE live cd will run without touching the harddrive if you want and is
> likely pretty compat with mandrake.  you could use it.
>
> also:
> http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/Li
>ve_CD/ may help a bit.

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