Booting NOT-Windows
    Jarod Wilson 
    jarod at wilsonet.com
       
    Wed Aug 20 15:45:33 EDT 2008
    
    
  
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:09 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> Each answer first:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Peg Harris <TechWtr at handspun.com> wrote:
> > Since this machine has the ability to boot off a USB device or a CD, I
> > wonder if I can boot up something else that will see all of my other disks ...
> 
>   Yup.  As others have suggested, one of the numerous Linux "live CDs"
> works well for this.  In addition to Knoppix, I believe the Ubuntu and
> SuSE live CDs include at least read-only NTFS support.  Not sure about
> Fedora.
Fedora 9 gives you full read/write for NTFS, can't remember if that was
a new thing or even if any NTFS support was present at all prior to 9.
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Jarod Wilson
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