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

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