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walnut

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Posted: Mar. 20 2004,07:47

so let me get this straight i download the .iso file of the version of my choice

burn the .iso with the program if my choosing (like nero)

then just put the cd into any system capable of booting form a cd-rom and the entire OS will run of the cd without damaging the files on the HDD, and when i restart the computer the orignal os installed will run.

i just REALLY need to confirm that this is right cause i dont wanna hafta re-install my comp system it it gets ruined

Ivo
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Posted: Mar. 20 2004,09:57

yup, this is absolutely perfectly true and correct. the same thing i have done.

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Posted: Mar. 20 2004,19:26

Exactly right. I have been forbidden by my daughter from putting anything on her Dell's 120GB Hard Drive. So, when she is at school, (medicine, chemistry), and I do not expect her home for a while, I boot up Damn Small and use a usb drive to restore. Then I can enjoy DSL on a 17 inch Dell UltraSharp monitor! One GB of RAM too!
Absolutely no damage to the machine or hard drive at all. That is the thing that
live cd distros llike Damn Small Linux do best. Since the cdrom drive only spins a little now and then, it is easy on that, too.
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Posted: Mar. 20 2004,21:26

Well, you could even make an ext2 partition and boot off a floppy and I doubt she'd notice, but... :;):

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Posted: Mar. 20 2004,23:35

The other nice thing is with that much ram you can boot it with the toram option, and be able to use your CD-ROM drive.

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