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Topic: newbie and afraid, just wondering id DSL touches the hdd

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Calamity

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Posted: Nov. 25 2003,17:20

nice work, i've seen screenshots and it looks great. If i write the iso to a cd, will DSL boot straight from the cd or will it need to write stuff to the hard drive??? any help will be greatly appreciated as i doubt the college IT support would like me to use it if it puts bits on the hard drive. Thanks in advance

roberts

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Posted: Nov. 25 2003,17:37

You can boot from CD and it will not touch the hard drive.
At the first boot prompt, just press enter.

And on version 0.5 and up, if you have a floppy or usb pendrive, you can even store your setup information using the backup menu option. Then upon the next boot from CD you can at the boot prompt boot: knoppix restore
That way you can use the system on anybodys computer without using their hard drive and still have your setup.

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