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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