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.
>
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