Somebody scribbled about [newbie] OT (sort of) Knoppix >downloaded it and burned it to CD-R (should I have burned it to CD-RW >instead?).
Well, it is a moving target of sorts, but other than that it shouldn't make a difference whether or not a CD-RW is used instead of a CD-R. Of course, if you have no use for the "old" version of it once a newer version comes out, well, of course, you can't record over that CD-R :). >In thinking about all this, I do wonder how it's possible to run this, >or any Linux distribution entirely from CD-R and have any sort of full >functionality...perhaps especially in the realm of something like There are ways to get Knoppix to either install or create a "permanent" directory for settings etc. Basically as it is a ramdisk type setup, then any settings in places like /etc get lost after you reboot. And should you wish to install, there is an install-cd file there somewhere. I only played around with it a few times, but it's fairly awesome for what it does. I gave one to my Windows-centric brother & booted it on one of his machines. The thing was up in KDE in less than two minutes or so, the net was detected & everything else it seems. >for Windows usage (NTFS, with Windows formatting), wouldn't this >present problems? Your whole drive is ntfs at the moment?? >- -- >Melissa -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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