Good idea. I've always wondered exactly what LiveCD's were. Nick On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote: > > Knoppix is a livecd version of linux you can download for free. You > > basically download the knoppix iso image, burn it to a CD (as you did > > the FC5 image), then boot off of it. It allows you to run a full > > non-destructive linux environment off of a CD. Unfortunately I'm > > leaving the office momentarily, so I don't have time to give you more > > details than that. Possibly someone else on the list will be able to, > > Fedora has LiveCDs these days: (Scroll down below "install media") > > http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora > > Which gives you a nice non-destructive way to see if a newer Fedora > will run better. > > You can also do a clean install (Back up your data!) directly from the > LiveCD environment. You can also use the disk to start a network > upgrade of an existing system, but that's only supported going from > the previous Fedora release to the one on the disk. Upgrading FC5 all > the way to F9 is not officially supported and I wouldn't recommend > doing it. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Art: bellsoffreedom.cgsociety.org/gallery/ Blog: cognitivealchemy.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080709/0a08bfb2/attachment.htm