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Started by SnipinBeava!
Sun, 17 Sep 2000 00:00
UMSDOS booting from a CD (Crossposted)
Author: SnipinBeava!
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 00:00
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Note : also Posted to : alt.comp.linux, alt.linux, alt.os.linux, alt.os.linux.best, alt.os.linux.caldera, alt.os.linux.madrake, alt.os.linux.mandrake, alt.os.linux.slackware, alt.os.linux.storm, alt.uu.comp.os.linux I would like to know if it's possible to keep Linux and X on a CD with a bunch of other apps and boot from that. I would keep my files on my windows partition with UMSDOS. Is that possible? How hard would it be to set up? I want to do this because I DON'T want to repartition my Hard Drive and I want to keep as much free space as Possible on it. I saw a HOWTO somewhere on mounting a dos partition, I guess that would be a start. I'm thinking somewhere along the lines of setting up a UMSDOS distro on my HD, configuring it and then burning all the files on a bootable CD. The problem with that would be that if something goes wrong with my configuration, I would have to start all over from scratch unless I could make the system check my HD for system files first an if nothing shows up, it would use the ones on the CD? I know something like this was done with "RedHat Live" a few years back. Any ideas? Thanks SnipinBeava!
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