[vox-tech] Boot Disk Not a True Rescue

Mark Street vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:12:06 -0800


Ooops, my bad.

....Floppix can be used safely because ALL hard drive support is disabled.

On Sunday 30 November 2003 14:54, Rob Rogers wrote:
> "Floppix has no hard drive support; you cannot access, modify, damage or
> destroy anything installed on the hard drive."
>
> In other words, it's like knoppix in that it runs from the disk and lets
> you check out a small distro of Linux, but doesn't touch your hard
> drive...The difference here is it doesn't even have support for accessing
> the hard drive, so it doesn't work as a rescue disk, just something to
> play with.

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