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Originally posted by DJeX
If I run it off a CD can I still save files to the HD?

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Absolutely. (Providing that it knows your file system. I have never heard of Linux not recognising a file system before, it came to mind when I was authoring this reply.)

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Originally posted by DJeX
How well does it run off the CD?

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It will most definately boot slower, but if you have a lot of RAM, it should be responsive enough. This is just a hypothesis, I have never booted Linux from CD.

It is not hard to install Mandriva into an environment which already has Windows installed. A bootloader for dual booting is automatically setup for you.

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Originally posted by rav0

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Originally posted by DJeX
If I run it off a CD can I still save files to the HD?

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Absolutely. (Providing that it knows your file system. I have never heard of Linux not recognising a file system before, it came to mind when I was authoring this reply.)

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It can view FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS filesystems, but cant save files to a NTFS disk, AFAIK, at least with the distros of linux ive used

It can read/write any FAT filesystem, but can only read NTFS. However, there are some modules floating around that can write NTFS too.

The newest Knoppix can write NTFS too

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Originally posted by Ezra
The newest Knoppix can write NTFS too

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Any info about NTFS in Mandriva?

eeer... are you sure that knoppix can write on ntfs?

i don't know any linux kernel supporting ntfs writing

knoppix.org says : "swapping on ntfs should work", not "writing on ntfs should work"...

edit : it seems that a ntfs filesystem for linux exists finally lol...
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

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Originally posted by rav0
It will most definately boot slower, but if you have a lot of RAM, it should be responsive enough. This is just a hypothesis, I have never booted Linux from CD.

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its not right, it runs perfectly i use damn small linux and umbuntu off cd and nothings wrong with it...but then again i have a good cd  drive...just a tip for u when u brun the cd make sure u burn it as a cd image

Does WinLinux work with XP?

EDIT: Never mnd it don't

Does any one know of a Linux that runs in Windows that works with XP?

You can get Vmware workstation(www.vmware.com) and install a liunux distro on that.