Dragaera

The Gypsy

David Silberstein davids at kithrup.com
Mon Dec 8 05:45:01 PST 2003

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Jose Marquez wrote:

>>
>I'm running Windows XP on an Athlon 3200+ processor, 1 GB RAM, with a 
>DVD-ROM and CD-RW.

It sounds like you have 2 physical drives.  If this is the case, then
that exactly matches my current home machine setup, and is precisely
useful because Knoppix, as I see I did not make clear, is a live
filesystem distibution - when you boot off of the CD, you don't get an
installer, you get a version of Linux that runs from a huge ramdisk
and a compressed filesystem on the CD.  It won't even mount your local
hard drive read-write unless you explicitly tell it to.  It's a
great way to play around with Linux on any machine without actually
having to install it.  So anyway, I booted from the DVD-ROM, and read
the Gypsy in the CD-RW drive.

> I imagine that any workaround would involve the MCP-2 i-trax format
>mentioned on the back of the CD, but googling these terms didn't get
>me anything useful. 
>

Well, it would involve *something* able to read that CD.   I was
thinking in terms of a more generic CD analyzing utility,
which would include the ability to read i-trax, but would not be
limited to just that.