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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Is it possible to put the whole Linux OS on DVD and work with it? Post 71312 by havepity on Tuesday 10th of May 2005 02:36:06 AM

05-10-2005

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Hi,

There are many flavors of linux around. I don't know about the ones like red hat (or fedora), but if you do a search in yahoo for "knoppix" you will be able to find something that will help you I hope.

Knoppix comes in different flavors too, but generally speaking, its "linux on a cd".....i guess you could migrate it over to dvd if you really insist??

You boot off the knoppix cd like you were booting off a windows cd, and it does everything on the fly - hint more ram helps though. You can read from the hdd, not a problem, fat16/32 or ntfs, linux, but depending on the flavor of knoppix i don't believe some of them will allow you to write to ntfs and if "those" ones do, then there is a disclaimer sayiing they're not responsible for corrupting your disk.

Hope that helps.

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NTFSLABEL(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      NTFSLABEL(8)

NAME

       ntfslabel - display/change the label on an ntfs file system

SYNOPSIS

       ntfslabel [options] device [new-label]

DESCRIPTION

       ntfslabel will display or change the file system label on the ntfs file system located on device.

       If the optional argument new-label is not present, ntfslabel will simply display the current file system label.

       If  the optional argument new-label is present, then ntfslabel will set the file system label to be new-label.  NTFS file system labels can
       be at most 128 Unicode characters long; if new-label is longer than 128 Unicode characters, ntfslabel will truncate it and print a  warning
       message.

       It is also possible to set the file system label using the -L option of mkntfs(8) during creation of the file system.

OPTIONS

       Below is a summary of all the options that ntfslabel accepts.  Nearly all options have two equivalent names.  The short name is preceded by
       - and the long name is preceded by --.  Any single letter options, that don't take an argument, can be combined into a single command, e.g.
       -fv is equivalent to -f -v.  Long named options can be abbreviated to any unique prefix of their name.

       -f, --force
	      This will override some sensible defaults, such as not working with a mounted volume.  Use this option with caution.

       -h, --help
	      Show a list of options with a brief description of each one.

       -n, --no-action
	      Don't actually write to disk.

       -q, --quiet
	      Reduce the amount of output to a minimum.

       -v, --verbose
	      Increase the amount of output that ntfslabel prints.

       -V, --version
	      Show the version number, copyright and license for ntfslabel.

BUGS

       There are no known problems with ntfslabel.  If you find a bug please send an email describing the problem to the development team:
       linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net

AUTHORS

       ntfslabel was written by Matthew J. Fanto, with contributions from Anton Altaparmakov and Richard Russon.

AVAILABILITY

       ntfslabel is part of the ntfsprogs package and is available from:
       http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/19/37

       The manual pages are available online at:
       http://man.linux-ntfs.org/

SEE ALSO

       mkntfs(8), ntfsprogs(8)

ntfsprogs 1.13.1						   November 2005						      NTFSLABEL(8)