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Maybe the banks will start issuing free live CD to their customers. The Linux live CD, not the Certificate of Deposit, although that would be very nice, too!

would be, with out a doubt, i get them from osdisc.com

Good article. Since I use Linux exclusively at home, I'm feeling better already.

same here, have 2 boxes set up and run ubuntu on them both.

The knoppix live CD mentioned in the article is very handy to have.
It can read and write ntfs and fat32 partitions so it can be used in emergencies where one cannot boot Windows and try to fix the problem.
Of course it can also be used for illegal access to Windows but we won't go into this.

was told one could do the same from any live cd. have never tried it. do have the super boot disc.

Live distributions are cool. It's really easy now to make live boot usb drive boot sticks, even with an older 1 GB USB jump drive. (it seems to require about 750 MB)
However, I haven't yet been able to make a persistent USB jump drive boot, even on a 8 GB stick which you are supposedly able to do, using the 'Start Up Disk Creator' sliding bar. Has anyone successfully made a persistent boot stick? Is there a trick to this?
Aside from speed, a live USB boot drive might even make a hard drive optional.

i have run desktops with no hard drives using the live cd . mainly just to check the machine out.

but surfed the net and all that while i was at it.

I have just purchased Ubuntu 9.1 on a disc assuming I can run it on my Windows 7 PC but a question or two arises. First, what comes with this disc, will all the basic apps be on it particularly NVIDIA controls since my experience with older versions has been nothing looks right without it? Second, I understand you can install this OS on a flash drive. In fact I have a pendrive linux already but don't like the browser it offers. For one thing I've never been able to figure out how to get my printer to work but believe it will from Firefox on Ubuntu. Now I run into a bit of a scary issue for me as I do not qualify at all for geekdom and that whole messing with the bios thing has me a bit up a tree.

I have another option I would like toe explore. My machine had Vista on it originally so I already have a partitioned hard drive with over 10 gigs of space on it. Can I load Ubuntu on it and boot it from there instead of from the live CD? I assume this would allow me to update the OS and add apps to it as needed. I had Ubuntu on this machine as a dual boot before but the program did all the necessary tech stuff without my needing to get involved. I understand there is some software on the linux site to use for a pendrive install but hey, I'll not be carrying this thing around with me to use on other PCs so putting it on this extra HD would work great for my purposes provided ...

USB Installer For Ubuntu
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