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