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Subject: Re: Linux for Comp. Chess. Help!

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 11:31:41 05/30/02

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On May 30, 2002 at 14:29:43, Alastair Scott wrote:

>On May 30, 2002 at 14:23:47, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>On May 30, 2002 at 14:13:50, Allen Lake wrote:
>>
>>>Mandrake has what they call their
>>>"Lnx4Win" installation.  Basically, a Mandrake filesystem is created inside an
>>>disk-image file on your Windows partition, and a Mandrake/Lnx4Win icon is
>>>created on your Windows desktop, so that you can start up Linux from Windows.
>>
>>
>>Thank you for this great piece of information!  (Knowledge of this greatly
>>increases the chance that I will give Linux a try.)
>
>Even less intrusive is DemoLinux http://www.demolinux.com/
>
>I haven't tried it (I'm a Mandrake user with not an atom of Windows in sight :)
>but it allows Linux to be run from a bootable CD-ROM without any partitioning or
>image files at all! (It saves files to a RAM disk - with copy to floppy before
>shutting down - or floppy disk).
>


Outstanding! Great info, thanks!



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