April's Digit magazine has a few linux versions incl Ubuntu and Damn Small Linux. Now I would like to run these from the CD/DVD itself like a Live CD. Is this possible? Or will it damage my machine which runs on Windows XP?
Shiv Kumar
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Hi Shiv,
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Never used the ones coming in magazines. What formats are they in? Probably burn it as a "bootable iso image" and use them as a LiveCD.
Is this possible? Or will it damage my machine which runs on Windows XP?
A LiveCD is something that runs on the system RAM, and doesn't touch your hard disk. Your windoze is sitting in your hard disk.
You could mount the hard disk if you want to. Some LiveCDs automatically detect the hard disks and mount it for you, usually read-only.
SK
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On 4/2/06, bombay news bombaynews@hotmail.com wrote:
I think Damn small linux is a live cd, which means you can run it off the disk without having to install anything. Ubuntu is not a live cd so if you want to use it you will have to install it on
your hard drive. You can also try out Puppy Linux which is a live cd. BUt first you will have to burn it onto a cd. Even byzantine OS is a live cd but I haven't heard much about it so I can't comment much on it. No linux distro can harm your Windows XP, only you can through bad disk partitioning. You should be careful while partitioning disk, which is very easy once you do it. Live cd's can cause no harm at all. You can only boot Damn Small Linux from the cd, if you want to use any other linux included, then you will have to burn the iso onto a cd.
On Sunday 02 April 2006 11:39 am, bombay news wrote:
GNU/Linux will not damage your machine or the windows partition. But windows will screw linux or any other os that you may install by overwriting the boot sector and asking you to format any drive which is not fat or ntfs. From your questions it is obvious that u are new at installation. READ WELL ABOUT PARTITIONING BEFORE attempting an installation of anything (even windows 98). U (not gnu/linux) are likely to damage your setup.
On Sunday 02 April 2006 06:09, bombay news wrote:
It would be good idea to get a separate harddisk for testing these things. Keep both harddisks separate. Disable the harddisk which you use for serious work in the BIOS and install / test Linux on the other harddisk. This is a good precaution meant not just for Linux but experimenting with OSes in general.
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