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Post by alexham36 on Dec 1, 2011 13:40:27 GMT
I have CDs for Mepis, Ubuntu and Lint. I use them occasionally in the Demo mode, without installing. I am very impressed that they recognize my Canon camera and Samsung mobile without me having do dowload any additinal software.
Just for an experiment I tried to install Lint onto a DVD but it refused to let me do it. Is there a way to get round this and will 4.7 GB be enough?
Thanks,
Alex
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Post by elvisuk on Dec 1, 2011 15:02:39 GMT
If you go hear and download the Linux you want you should be abil to burn it to a 4.7gb DVD disk I do
distrowatch.com/
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Post by alexham36 on Dec 1, 2011 16:32:24 GMT
Thank you Elvis. I will download tonight when I am on uncapped bandwidth.
Thanks,
Alex
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Post by mikkh on Dec 2, 2011 3:46:38 GMT
No you can't install to a DVD, only to a hard drive or USB stick etc You can use Puppy Linux to write it's user settings to a re-writable DVD or CD, but that's just confusing the issue, basically you can't do what you said in the original post.
Elvis meant the initial ISO you download which can go on a CD or DVD - for installing you must use a read/write device like a hard drive.
Use Linux Mint preferably the older 11 version to install 'wubi' style onto your hard drive. It installs to a folder on a Windows partition, doesn't affect Windows and can be uninstalled from Windows too
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Post by elvisuk on Dec 2, 2011 9:37:53 GMT
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Post by alexham36 on Dec 3, 2011 18:17:13 GMT
Thank you Mikkh. All the versions of Linux that I tried before were "intrusive" in they overwrote MBR and unistalling them was not a simple matter. That is why I asked if I could run one off the DVD. I had a look at Wubi installer and I am tempted to have a go just as an experiment.
Thanks again,
Alex
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Post by alexham36 on Dec 4, 2011 14:19:21 GMT
Thank you Mikkh and Elvis. I downloaded Wupi last night and installed Ubuntu 10. 04.3-desktop-amd64.iso onto an empty Windows partition of 100 MB. When I log on the system defaults to Windows, but it gives me 20 secs to chose Ubuntu. Exactly what I wanted.
Thank you again,
Alex
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Post by johnnybee on Mar 31, 2013 22:32:53 GMT
Funny enough, I've found that having a live DVD image is dead handy for checking out whether a system will work properly or not; I get four old PC's a week on average, many of which have had their HDD's removed for obvious reasons. However, as long as the CD/DVD drive works OK, I use a live disc to get the rig booted; that then gives me all the info I need on what components are on the system and an indication of what, if anything, needs to be looked at. If a setup is showing all OK, then I know it's worth putting a hard drive into it and installing an OS - if not, I know it's not worth bothering with. This might be helpful, perhaps?
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