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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:35:44 -0400
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Re: Live CD
From: Charles Lepple <clepple AT gmail DOT com>
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On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:02 AM,  <gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu> wrote:
> I used such live CD in education for some time years ago. The main
> drawback is that windows users usually do not want to boot to another
> system and it is very hard to convince them that the live system won't
> ruin their hard disk. Back than I also had problems finding a suitable
> live-cd distro to hst geda (nowdays I'd choose grml).

What about a VMWare Player image? (Or the equivalent for VirtualBox.)

It's pretty easy to configure a VM to only give it access to a single
shared folder, and I don't think gEDA is so processor-intensive that
it would perform poorly inside the VM.

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- Charles Lepple