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*Running* an OS from a bootable CD (was: ...insufficient memory...)
Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3557 messages posted)
|I'm currently experimenting with Knoppix.
|This runs even w/o being installed.
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|[...]I want to find my way around Knoppix
|because it can be used as a diagnostic disc to repair Windows.
| dhm
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While Micros~1 is stuck on STUPID
--making it EVER MORE DIFFICULT to install, "activate", and repair an OS--
the Open Source guys are making it easier every day to try theirs.
|Just reset the CMOS to look for the CD drive first and it will boot.
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He was going thru all the right steps with the Ubuntu CD;
it appears his Windoze-compatible software failed him--burning the ISO improperly.
(Linux to the rescue again.)
|It's a live CD.
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These days, it's hard to find a successful Linux distro
where **Run the OS from the CD** _isn't_ available.
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
The *Install to HDD* part on these could be mistaken for a convenient afterthought.
...and on the *Making it easier* front as well as the *Repair broken Windoze* front:
**All Asus Motherboards To Include "Splashtop" Embedded Linux
(Option To Load a Linux Desktop From Firmware)**
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/14/173220&threshold=5#23406320
(Summary at the top of the page.)
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