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Linux on disk?
lazygamer:
Ok here's the thing. At school(it's a small adult education thing, not a 1000 person high school) our computers use W98 and Microsoft word.
I was thinking how Linux's stuff is probably superior to MS word. To use it though, i'd have to use Linux. The only way to do this would be to boot from a disk into Linux.
Would it be possible to tweak/re compile the kernel in such a way that it boots very quickly?(and is optimized for the particular machine I would use) A 2 minute boot time would be acceptable, a 5 minute woulden't.
This is out of my league for now, but im gonna be studying in these halls of learning for a few years, so it's always possible later on...
KernelPanic:
and a resounding 'knoppix!' is heard from MES...
lazygamer:
I was imagining an A drive disk, but CD could work.
voidmain:
Heh heh, try fitting X and KDE on a floppy disk. I think you would have to use "lossy compression", make that "extremely lossy compression". But if you had Linux installed on the hard drive you could use a floppy to bootstrap it so you couldn't tell it was installed. But Knoppix is definitely the way to go.
[ November 21, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
lazygamer:
So there is no 6 year old version that can be shoehorned onto a disk? Well, I suppose it would suck then.
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