Quote Originally Posted by chris-harry
giving cd's to friends and showing them how to use it is the easy part... thats what i did... then, when they ask you a question you dont know... just run out of the room...
Long ago I tried convincing a friend to use knoppix. He never even knew there was the option of making a dual boot system, it took me a while to realize that. He thought installing any distro of linux would replace windows and was too big of a leap to take. Thats when I explained dual boot to him, and then I gave him a knoppix cd, configured his bios so it would run, and he liked alot. Its interesting how alot of people don't know about such possibilities yet. I haven't switched to a dual boot yet, I still use the knoppix live cd (I tried installing Debian, but the whole partitioning part just confused me a bit much at the time). That doesn't mean I won't try again though eventually. This definitely got me a great start into the world of linux, after hearing so much about it and never having the guts to try it, with little hard drive space, and realizing that I didn't have to install it.