[gentoo-user] Re: Multiboot Live USB creatores - Was: Re: Re: Re: Re: Kaspersky Rescue Disk

2013-02-14 Thread Michael Sondow
Hi, Robert. I checked out the Multisystem website, from the French folks. But I didn't like their attitude: a sales pitch. I didn't realize you could download the iso from Sourceforge. I'm not sure how to use it, though. Isn't it for creating a multiboot USB stick from Linux? I'll need a Window

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiboot Live USB creatores - Was: Re: Re: Re: Re: Kaspersky Rescue Disk

2013-02-14 Thread Michael Sondow
Hi, Tanstaafl. As soon as I get my set of anti-malware rescue disks set up (Kaspersky, Trend Micro, AVG, and Bitdefender), for right now on four separate USB flash drives (thereby wasting most of the space on the flash drives!), I'm going to start experimenting with the multiboot USB creator pr

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Kaspersky Rescue Disk

2013-02-13 Thread Michael Sondow
Hi, Alecks. You wrote: > I believe there is a way to setup persistent storage. I've never done > it personally, but I think tools such as unetbootin or Pendrivelinux[1] > offer it. It wont work on your standard CD, of course. Yes, there seem to be a number of programs that will create a bootable

[gentoo-user] Re: Kaspersky Rescue Disk

2013-02-12 Thread Michael Sondow
Hi, Mick. Thanks for all the suggestions and information. I will research them all. I'd still like to keep away from putting a Linux op sys on a hard drive partition. The hard drives in these netbooks and laptops are their weak link. The HDD on my Asus 1000HA has lasted for seven years with hea

[gentoo-user] Re: Kaspersky Rescue Disk

2013-02-12 Thread Michael Sondow
Hi, Mick. Thanks for replying. You wrote: > Check and remove the updates file that KRD creates on your WinXP filesystem. > After the scan is completed this is no longer needed and takes up space. The KRD added a \Kaspersky Rescue Disk\ directory to C: on my hard drive that contains 58 subdirect

[gentoo-user] Kaspersky Rescue Disk

2013-02-11 Thread Michael Sondow
Hi, Gentoo users. I'm new to this list, and also new to Gentoo and to Linux in general. Despite that, I think my questions are reasonable ones. They have to do with the Kaspersky Rescue Disk (KRD), which uses Gentoo, as you probably know. I installed the KRD to a 4Gb USB flash drive, in order t