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voidmain:
LU, I can't imagine they would set the BIOS to not boot from CD-ROM and not set it to also not boot from floppy before password protecting it. Would they be that dumb?

preacher:

quote:Originally posted by void main:
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 ]
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Well actually there is a small distro of linux called muLinux, that supposedly with two or three floppies can have xwindows, a web browser, and a few other packages. It uses the 2.0.36 kernel, and all the packages included with it are pretty old, but like I said, its small.

Forgot the link.
http://mulinux.sunsite.dk/

[ November 22, 2002: Message edited by: ThePreacher ]

voidmain:
Well almost. It looks to me that the base distro is 3 disks (without X). Then there are 12 addon disks, one of which contains X, 2 more contain Netscape, another one contains VNC, etc. Still it's quite amazing. But if your goal is to show Linux off I would still suggest Knoppix as a number one. Unless you want to be able to show off the minimalistic capabilities, in which case I would still suggest Knoppix.  

KernelPanic:

quote:Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
If the computers are unable to boot from the cd-rom drive (as the computers are at my school because the BIOS is password protected and I can't go in and change the boot order) then you can make a knoppix boot floppy that will then load the rest of the OS off the cd rom.  There are instructions on the knoppix cd on how to do this.
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Why not reset the bios password?

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