Friends afraid of Linux?

[Robin Laing]

Frank Pineau wrote:
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> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 17:43 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
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>>Robin Laing wrote:
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>>>Anybody know of a Windows that runs on a CD/DVD just in case?
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>>Well, there is Windows PE:
>>http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/winpreinst/windowspe_tech.mspx
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> You might also try BartPE, which is a PE + plugins to run any number of
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> http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
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> There are also a couple of commercial ones such as ERD Commander.
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I am going to give BartPE a try if I can find a computer with Windows 
XP on it to make a copy with.

It looks like I am going to be getting a piece of hardware that will 
require Windows to update/upgrade once or twice a year.  I am going to 
see if the software will run in Wine but I doubt it as it requires 
control of a comm port.


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Robin Laing