Booting NOT-Windows

[Bill Mullen]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:45:33 -0400,
Jarod Wilson wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:09 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

The same goes for the current Mandriva One LiveCD (2008.1 Spring), full
read/write support for NTFS filesystems using ntfs-3g.

-- 
Bill Mullen
RLU #270075