Writing on hd using Livecd

linoleum · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 129

Hi,
I'm building a Gentoo livecd to be used to teach some applied stats and at the same time to introduce students to Linux/Gentoo without installing anything on their computers.
At the end of a short course I will ask them to do some exercises and to write a short report using for example Openoffice. Is there a way to allow them, using the livecd, to write something on their hd in order to save their work? (BTW I'm pretty sure they will all have some version of windows installed)
In case any workaround?
Thanks

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:42 pm Post subject:

linoleum,

The short answer is No.
If you were to make the liveCD provide Captive, it can write to NTFS volumes like Windows XP normally uses.
Its a wrapper for the XP provided NTFS filesystem driver. Captive is also unmaintained.
If anything were to go wrong ...

How about making the liveCDs on CD-RW media with an ISO 9660 filesystem and a UDF filesystem.
UDF is writeable with packet writing, so students would write to the UDF part of the liveCD. They ned a CD-RW of course.
The alternatives are floppy, USB storage or a network drive.
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NeddySeagoon

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linoleum · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 129

Thanks NeddySeagoon for your help.
I think I'll go with usb and network.