Your PC will boot Linux right off the CD, and you will be in a Linux shell and run Csound. It would be just as though you had installed Linux on your PC. If you have FAT32, no problem reading and writing files on the hard disk. 

The only problem are NTFS filesystems can't safely be written to. If you have NTFS you can create a FAT32 partition, or you can use a USB stick or something for your home directory.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Art Hunkins 
Sent: Nov 19, 2005 5:10 PM
To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] To Linux or Not to Linux

Would someone please explain this in non-technical language? Especially to
someone (like me) completely ignorant of Linux?

Assuming I had a Windows laptop with space on it, and when things came the
point of their being a "live CD with Csound" (please define!), what would a
typical user need to do to be able to perform Csound in Linux?

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain Duncan" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] To Linux or Not to Linux


> David, it will be on Pure:dyne and Dyne:bolic II. I will be helping test
> all that to get it working well when the time is right. At the moment
> both are still too beta to spend a lot of time playing with integration,
> but I expect by early next year we will have a live CD with csound5
> rocking out of the box.
>
> Iain
>
> David Akbari wrote:
> > Also what is the status of including Csound5 on any live CD's ?
> >
> >  From my experience partitioning a disk that already has valuable data
> > on it can result in nasty things happening to your data; it seems there
> > would be more utility in just booting off of a live CD such as pure:dyne
> > or AGNULA with Csound5 already installed rather than risk losing all of
> > your data on your Windows drive.
> >
> >
> > $0.02
> >
> > -David
> >
> > On Nov 19, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Art Hunkins wrote:
> >
> >> I am a Windows person, and no doubt will remain one. However, I'd like
to
> >> take up Ian's real-time Csound Linux challenge (thanks, Ian), and
> >> install a
> >> separate Linux boot on my new laptop.
> >>
> >> I will not do this, though, unless there is a fairly foolproof Linux
> >> installer for Csound5. I have watched the endless and heroic attempts
to
> >> build Csound on Linux here on this list, and will *not* subject my
> >> body and
> >> remaining life to this stress. (My cardiologist would not like it
> >> either.)
> >> I'm serious about this. I cannot afford to try to "roll my own" Linux,
as
> >> users perhaps *should* do, according to Istvan. (But I wonder how many
> >> *would* do it?)
> >>
> >> If Linux is to *thrive* as a Csound OS, appropriate installers must be
> >> available for at least selected versions of Linux.
> >>
> >> So a decision needs to be made as to which versions of Linux to
support.
> >> With this as background, which will be the first Linux installer
> >> versions? I
> >> need a recommendation as to which Linux to obtain - *one based on a
> >> soon-upcoming available installer*.
> >>
> >> Or else I need to forget about it. Please let me know.
> >>
> >> Art Hunkins
> >
> >
> >
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