article on mandrake as good gift OS

[Brian Kelsay]

Bradley Miller wrote:

> 
>> On Wednesday, December 24, 2003 07:42 pm, david nicol wrote:
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>> > http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/22/1419255
> 
> 
> I fired up my "Mandrake On The Move" CD and had fun running it on a 
> laptop.  It worked great -- I just need to figure a way to do some 
> saving of files.  I could see my C: / D: as mounted, but couldn't save 
> to them.  The bootable CD is an excellent way to convince a 
> "non-believer" on the virtues of Linux.   Let's see a bootable CD with 
> Windows/Office/etc... all on one.  

Check /etc/fstab and see if those drives/partitions are mounted 
read-only automatically.  If so, unmount and remount as read-write.

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