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I did just the opposite. My local computer surplus shop had HP ePC "shoebox" sized computers with a 13 GB hard disk and Windows XP Pro for $199. I pulled the hard disk and upgraded to a 300 GB. I bumped the memory from 128MB to 256MB. The first Fedora 5 load was done from multiple CDROMs. Upgrade to Fedora Core 7 was tricky as the boot ROM was incapable of handling the DVD only format. The workaround was to put the syslinux stuff from the DVD onto the /boot directory of the hard disk to provide USB drivers. An entry to help GRUB find the syslinux stuff provided the lauching pad. The ISO image of the DVD from Fedora Core 7 was laid on a USB thumb drive. Problem solved. The Anaconda installer found the distro and the upgrade was underway.

Sure, why not?

PCs are supposed to adapt for our convenience.

I did just the opposite. My local computer surplus shop had HP ePC "shoebox" sized computers with a 13 GB hard disk and Windows XP Pro for $199. I pulled the hard disk and upgraded to a 300 GB. I bumped the memory from 128MB to 256MB. The first Fedora 5 load was done from multiple CDROMs. Upgrade to Fedora Core 7 was tricky as the boot ROM was incapable of handling the DVD only format. The workaround was to put the syslinux stuff from the DVD onto the /boot directory of the hard disk to provide USB drivers. An entry to help GRUB find the syslinux stuff provided the lauching pad. The ISO image of the DVD from Fedora Core 7 was laid on a USB thumb drive. Problem solved. The Anaconda installer found the distro and the upgrade was underway.

I keep wanting to try a Linux system, then I read incomprehensible stuff like this. I bought a computer that had linux on it, and I, being raised on Windoze, was unable to launch much of anything, and I couldn't find stuff. I was lost. So I wiped it. I downloaded Ubuntu once, but something was amiss, and I gave up on it. The live OS on disk sounds promising, but not if I ever have to understand the above paragraph. Linux users, go ahead and laugh at me.