Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-03-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:55:51 -0500, rir wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:43:50AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Because I need to burn CDs at times and as far as I have knowledge, Knoppix atleast won't let the CD out once booted. Use knoppix toram at the boot prompt.

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-28 Thread Deboo ^
Thanks for the concern and warning though. I didn't take it negatively. Just that I haven't seen a Linux installation corrupting the other OS. The worst that could happen is what? Partitions getting deleted or is there anything else more devasting and disastrous and unrecoverable? Regards,

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-28 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 01:21 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Thanks for the concern and warning though. I didn't take it negatively. Just that I haven't seen a Linux installation corrupting the other OS. The worst that could happen is what? Partitions getting deleted or is there anything else more

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-27 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 19:54 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Thanks for the reply Vibhav, That worked :-) Regards, Deboo P.S.: Pls use plain text for sending mails to lists. It's easier to read and most ppl don't like html. :-) On 2/26/07, Vibhav Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deboo ^ wrote:

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-27 Thread Deboo ^
Well, Firstly, the cybercafe guy knows me well and I installed and configuerd a debian firewall for him so he's quite friendly with me :-) Secondly, I haven't yet seen a PC bogged up due to installing or uninstalling Linux. Does that happen? And how many such cases exist? Thanks again to the

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-27 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 12:26:55AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: [...] Secondly, I haven't yet seen a PC bogged up due to installing or uninstalling Linux. Does that happen? And how many such cases exist? It rarely happens, but when it does it sucks. From what I've seen it usually happens because

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-27 Thread rir
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:43:50AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Because I need to burn CDs at times and as far as I have knowledge, Knoppix atleast won't let the CD out once booted. Use knoppix toram at the boot prompt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-27 Thread Kent West
Deboo ^ wrote: which distro goes in to a USB stick? A quick Google came up with: This open source project puts Live Linux distributions in packages ready to load onto and boot from USB flash drives. This includes DSL Embedded, Knoppix, PCLinuxOS, SLAX, MiniMe+ SLAX, and Ubuntu! Yes, you

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:55:51PM -0500, rir wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:43:50AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Because I need to burn CDs at times and as far as I have knowledge, Knoppix atleast won't let the CD out once booted. Use knoppix toram at the boot prompt. Which only works if

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-27 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:14:10PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Deboo ^ wrote: which distro goes in to a USB stick? A quick Google came up with: This open source project puts Live Linux distributions in packages ready to load onto and boot from USB flash drives. This includes DSL

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-27 Thread Greg Madden
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:55:51 -0500 rir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:43:50AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Because I need to burn CDs at times and as far as I have knowledge, Knoppix atleast won't let the CD out once booted. Use knoppix toram at the boot prompt. the

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-27 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 00:26 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Well, Firstly, the cybercafe guy knows me well and I installed and configuerd a debian firewall for him so he's quite friendly with me :-) Secondly, I haven't yet seen a PC bogged up due to installing or uninstalling Linux. Does that

Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-26 Thread Deboo ^
Hello, I need to use linux when out of office. Is there a way to remove it once I install Debian on to a PC with Windoze (2000/XP)? It should get removed even from the OS menu. If that is possible, please explain how to go about it. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-26 Thread Vibhav Sharma
Deboo ^ wrote: Hello, I need to use linux when out of office. Is there a way to remove it once I install Debian on to a PC with Windoze (2000/XP)? It should get removed even from the OS menu. If that is possible, please explain how to go about it. are you asking Is there a way to

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-26 Thread Deboo ^
Thanks for the reply Vibhav, That worked :-) Regards, Deboo P.S.: Pls use plain text for sending mails to lists. It's easier to read and most ppl don't like html. :-) On 2/26/07, Vibhav Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deboo ^ wrote: Hello, I need to use linux when out of office. Is

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 03:28, Deboo ^ wrote: Hello, I need to use linux when out of office. Is there a way to remove it once I install Debian on to a PC with Windoze (2000/XP)? It should get removed even from the OS menu. If that is possible, please

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-26 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
Instead of temporarily installing Debian on a cybercafe PC, why not boot from a Live CD? If a cybercafe or any other public terminal allows you to install your own os or boot a live cd I'd recommend not using it at all. At least check for keyloggers. -- swk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-26 Thread Deboo ^
Because I need to burn CDs at times and as far as I have knowledge, Knoppix atleast won't let the CD out once booted. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. On 2/26/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-26 Thread John K Masters
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:43:50 +0530 Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because I need to burn CDs at times and as far as I have knowledge, Knoppix atleast won't let the CD out once booted. Regards, Deboo Try Puppy Linux - runs completely in RAM so is fast and allows easy CD burning.

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-26 Thread Kent West
John K Masters wrote: Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because I need to burn CDs at times and as far as I have knowledge, Knoppix atleast won't let the CD out once booted. Try Puppy Linux - runs completely in RAM so is fast and allows easy CD burning. http://www.puppylinux.org/