[plug] F-Prot on Bootable CD

[Craig Ringer]

I am the LinuxAlien wrote:
> I wish to make a Bootable CD that will contain a minimal system and 
> F-Prot. I was thinking of using Debian but do not know how to make the 
> CD. 

I believe its possible to make customized knoppix CDs w/o excessive 
difficulty - or so I've heard. Anybody tried it?

> It will need to be able to mount NTFS partitions and run F-Prot on 
> all the files on the partitions. 

Linux NTFS write support is not useable at this point. Go and yell at 
microsoft for having an undocumented filesystem.

 > I
> was wondering if it is possible to do this on a windows machine

v. unlikely if you made a linux CD, since you'd need to modify the 
original disc tree then re-run mkisofs.

> or will 
> I have to make the ISO on a Linux box and burn it through a windows 
> machine as I don't have a Linux box with burner.

You would have to, but it isn't hard.