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[comcamel]

At school, i am pretty sure that all computers cannot boot from a floppy disk and the cdrom and they have locked the bios, is there anyway or any program that can run in windows which can boot a live cd distro. such as knoppix.

greatful for an answer! COmcamel

[alloydog]

Look at http://www.linux.org and goto the Distributions page
Under the Catergory menu, you can select Runs on MS Windows.

It found these:
• LoopLinux
• muLinux
• Xteam Linux
• Pklinux
• Tomukas
• TopologiLinux
• Cooperative Linux (aka coLinux)
• Klinux
• AMIGO Linux OS

Brief descriptions, and details where the hom epages are, and where to downlaod are also given. Check it out.

[Nigel]

I've used TopologiLinux... it still needs to boot from CD. It uses a big file on your Windows disk instead of a Linux partition, so avoids all the partitioning hassles. It had it's uses... until I discovered Knoppix !
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Hope this helps,

Nigel.

[towy71]

if I remember rightly zipslack works from a directory in c: under windows
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[Guest]

it is actually alright, today i tested out that i can use a floppy, cd drive disabled aswell as booting from memory key, i will create a knoppix boot disc, as described in the manual - and i'll be advertising linux to the class. I might have a go with a harddisk version but knoppix works well thanks!

[nelz]

Put Smart Boot Manager on a floppy and you'll be able to boot any CD.
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