LiveCD

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: LiveCD
started by: rthomson

Posted by rthomson on April 11 2006,20:15

Hi,

I am trying to do a livecd boot as described in computeractive magazine, although every time I boot the computer and select to start DS Linux, it does the hardware checks and then says that it is creating a hard drive partition. As I still want WindowsXP on my machine, and DSL as a test, I don't want it to be writing to my HDD. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Posted by underdog5004 on April 12 2006,01:01

As a liveCD, DSL won't write anything to the hard drive when you boot. What you're seeing is probably just DSL partitioning the RAM as a "Ramdisk" to load DSL into. All changes made to DSL will be lost when you reboot. Bottom Line, don't worry about WinXP, DSL won't make any changes.

Posted by rthomson on April 12 2006,08:41

Thanks very much!