Subj : Re: LiveCDs
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Bruce Coryell
Date : Thu Jul 15 2004 04:45 am

I've got to share this experience:   I booted up Knoppix on my Windows 
machine, and afterward, found the hard drive SERIOUSLY fragmented.  I'd 
be careful of that claim that it doesn't do anything to your machine.

patrick wrote:

> jmh wrote:
> 
>> Crashdamage wrote:
>>
>>> You also might want to try one or two of the run-direct-from-CD distros
>>> like pcLinuxOS or Knoppix.  Dowload and burn the CD, then just boot from
>>> the CD and it will load a fully-functional Linux distro, including
>>> borwser, office software, etc without changing anything on your system.
>>> Just remove the CD and reboot and your machine is back to Windoze XP,
>>> unharmed.  These are somewhat limited of course, but let you get your
>>> feet wet and see if your hardware causes any trouble.  
>>
>>
>>
>> Quick question on these CD-based versions. Do they allow a
>> partition on the local hard drive to be mounted and
>> formated? I've never even looked at these alternatives
>> but it might be the most sensible approach to being able to
>> run linux on a laptop I have without doing more than
>> running a partitioning sw to make a portion of the existing
>> disk available. I'd only need to the occasional time.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> jmh
>>
> 
> KnoppixV3.4-05-17-2004 includes text based (in a console window), CFDISK 
> and FDISK, and, in the GUI, QTPARTED.
> 
> All work fine on every computer I have seen (I test about 6 to 20 
> systems each week in stores, homes, to demonstrate Knoppix, PHLAK, 
> Morphix distros).
> 
> Look at all these Live CDs! http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
> 
> Also, check out: http://linuxiso.org
> http://distrowatch.com

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