I think you would avoid using a distro that tried to boot off an NT or XP system. AFAIK, NTFS support in Linux is experimental. I think it works well enough that you can for example, change the system password information, but anything more extensive could lead to problems.
-Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Buskey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 1:25 PM Subject: Re: Linux/Unix in the classroom There are some versions of linux that install on top of a DOS file system. To run them, you shutdown to DOS then run a BAT file. I've played with them a bit on older hardware and they felt like regular linux with X, etc. I don't know how well they'd work on top of NT or XP. There are the floppy based linux distributions that run off RAM disks. These typically don't have X though one or two might. Zip drive or USB drive based distributions with a boot floppy will give more functionality. -- ------- Tom Buskey _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
