[ale] Live FS CD

[Chris Fowler]

It just freaked me out.  I was afraid my HD was going to get written too.  Strange how someone with 7 years linux experience can get freaked over a simple config screen.  But,  instructions were not with the CD on the CD sleeve.

-----Original Message-----
From: Fulton Green [mailto:ale at FultonGreen.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 3:19 PM
To: Chris Fowler
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Live FS CD



Yeah, that's normal. The config info during this step is saved into one of
those files that gets written to the hard disk.


On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:17:49PM -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I placed the Live Eval CD in the drive and it booted.  I got an installation
> screen.  Is that correct?  I was expecting X to immediately start up.
> 
> CF
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fulton Green [mailto:me at FultonGreen.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 11:05 AM
> To: Chris Fowler
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Live FS CD
> 
> 
> If push comes to shove, you might get some use out of SuSE's 7.0 LiveEval.
> I've booted it a few times from CD-ROM. It does seem to require that one or
> two files be written to the hard disk's filesystem, but other than that,
> it's
> non-obtrusive. Works great on my ThinkPad that normally runs W2K (except
> that it doesn't recognise my Ethernet card during installation).
> 
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:48:55AM -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > Can someone tell me where I can download a live FS iso image so I can run
> > Linux on a computer but not install it?  I do need networking support.
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