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

Author: Allen Lake

Date: 19:16:21 05/30/02

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

>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).

This reminds me of my early days using Linux -- a UMSDOS install of Slackware
(on a Windows 3.1 machine) which used a live filesystem (all of the apps) on the
Slackware CD-ROM.  I burned up the motor in a 4x CD-ROM using that setup ;).



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