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Originally posted by LennonCook:
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Originally posted by Felix The Assassin:
Unless your running Knoppix Linux from cd, you shouldset your Primary boot to HDD-0. Thats a zero, not an 'O'
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1. Knoppix isn't the only distro using a Live CD. There's also Ubuntu, Mandrake, Suse, DamnSmallLinux, and probably plenty more I don't know.
2. Why would boot from CD be restricted to a live CD Linux distro? There are plenty of other reasons to want to boot from the CDROM, including installing almost *any* OS (every linux distro I know of, Windows since Win95, and MacOS all to my knowledge use bootable CDs to install from).
3. Why should the harddrive boot *first*, in any case? [/QUOTE]1. Correct, but Knoppix is the most advertised/popular/ and easiest for a trainee from the M$ drones to attempt.
2. Correct again, but UNLESS you are booting from an OS CD, you are only wasting time.
3. Speed my friend. If you set *first* boot to HDD-0(AKA C: drive, or OS drive, or multi boot sequence directory), and disable all others, you drop your boot time by upto 30 seconds depending upon the slowness of your machine.
I however don't use multi boot, I just swap drives to whichever OS I'm in the mood to load.