This may be stupid but would it work and can anyone help me make it?

[Elf Stone]

Okay long title heres what it's about. I have seen many bootable floppys that contain linux but only have a command line interface. I though that if I put one such floppy onto a bootable cd then a windows manager could be fitted on as well which would allow newbiew to test linuxs capabilities without haveing to do anything permanent to their machine. I am one such newbie considering using linux and I would find such a cd a very useful thing. I have a cdrw drive so if anyone could e-mail me a list of steps to take to make such a cd it would be great. There are only a few things that you must remember 1) I don't want to download much over 100megs, 2) I don't have linux have never used linux so all instructions must be clear, 3) Please help.

[dante_d]

There are distributions that allow you to install linux into a windows directory. Mandrake and Slackware have these.

Slackware 7.1 contains a bootable 'live disc'
that contains linux on a cd that doesn't install onto your harddrive (not sure if it has X though. It also has ZipSlack and BigSlack, which install into windows. With ZipSlack, you can carry around a pretty robust linux system on a zip disk, and run it on other windows machines without partitioning,

Mandrake has a separate distribution for installing into a windows directory. There are other distributions that are built to install to windows as well (winlinux is one I think).

If you decide you like linux, you should eventually install it into it's own partition since it will run much better on it's own file system.

I find it easiest to run it on a second hard-drive (much less partitioning headaches).

[Muzzafarath]

What you want is Demo Linux (http://www.demolinux.org/).

[cs25x]

peanut linux 60M and it has enough for most people KDE etc, and you can install it onto a win file system. www.ibiblio.org (http://www.ibiblio.org) distributions other peanut
or ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/peanut
But thems from memory so i could be wrong.
8.1 has a large ( 640 M ) iso and 8.2 only has a small ( 64 M ) iso. the diff is compiler source code and man & info pages.

You also need 2 floppy disks, one "boot" one "root"

peanut is very easy to install on a native e2fs linux partition, i have never tried it on a win thing, but most people start out that way.
never tried demo linux, must check it out.

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[cs25x]

One thing i forgot, use ftp for download.
Your web browser is not going to be reliable enough. That is a lesson you dont want to learn the hard way.

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[Elf Stone]

If I install this as well as win 95 is there any risk that all my data will be lost?

I have looked at the slackware site it looks good but the live cd is not downloadable anyone know one that is ?