Is it possible to completely remove Millenium Edition from my Hard Drive and reformat it with Puppy Linux?

Question

In other words NO MS product on the hard drive. I will use puppy from there on out and if my system should crash I would use puppy to recover? Is this possible and if it is how is it done? I have puppy 4.0 on ISO disk. Thanks

Answer 1

I have not used windows on my main computers for over a year.  I use mepis7 as my distro.  I also use mepis as a live CD to test newly assembled hardware or computers clogged with viral or malware infected windows operating systems...

Installing mepis7, it can format the entire disk...  Also  the Parted Magic 3.0 Live CD has gparted used by many Linux distro to format and adjust partitions...

http://partedmagic.com/wiki/PartedMagic....

Your reasoning is good.  Since Microsoft stopped supporting windows ME a while ago, the hardware is good, and using a supported modern operating system make good sense.

There are many students in the US using computers with modern Linux operating systems for school, in older systems that will not run Vista...

Puppy is a single user operating system so you are running as root all the time. From what I have read this was done to simplify it’s usage, but this drops the security level down to Windows 98, or XP operating system that defaulted to administrator...

Puppy should make the hardware perform, but I would like to see you use a distro that does not run as root, maybe Antix-7.5 or another small nimble distro that uses a root password.

Puppy is fast operating system, and to me its value is using a Live CD, or USB key to run the live version rather than have a permanent install running without having the root password protected.

JR