Ubuntu Live CD Question

[Stephen]

Wini is nice
It drops Linux disk I o to that of windows. Install is quirky but
overall its pretty nice

And the uninstall is clean

On 3/10/09, Mark Jarvis <m.jarvis at cox.net> wrote:
>
> We recently obtained a used Dell notebook for my wife.  The DVD drive was
> toast, so I bought an external/USB DVD drive to use. Wanting to test it on
> some Linux things, I tried booting from an Ubuntu 8.10 Live CD. After it
> failed to boot from the CD (no surprise), booting instead into Windows, the
> Ubuntu 8.10 Live CD was still in the drive. After a while, the CD did an
> autorun and offered to install as an application under windows--with two
> caveats: 1) hibernation was disabled, and 2) "disk performance will be
> slightly reduced."
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) Has anyone out there done this?
>
> 2) How well does it work?
>
> 3) Is disk performance under both Windows & Linux affected? How much?
>
> 4) When I'm through playing with it, does it uninstall cleanly?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Mark Jarvis
>

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