knoppix question

[Brian Densmore]

I've booted Knoppix on my laptop which only has 96MB RAM.
I didn't touch any keys to do this. Now to be fair there is
a swap partition on the drive and it may have seen this and
used it. In fact the creators would be foolish not to look
for and use it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Kelsay
> 
> It will boot into 128MB w/ no swap.  It's a little slower at 
> 128, but useable.  256 should be fine.  I don't know what the 
> low end ram is.  One possible Knoppix problem is the large 
> number of daemons that auto start at boot.
> 
> Brian Kelsay
> 
> >>> <lerninlinux at comcast.net> 12/12/04 11:37PM >>>
> I have taken old parts and assembled a test system,  I would 
> like to know if Knoppix will boot into 256 mb of memory only. 
>  No hard drive, no floppy.   I am wanting to use it as a test 
> station for hard drives, (checking if they are bad and 
> fdisking and such).  
> 
Your need sounds more like a task for Tom's rootboot (tomsrtbt).
Why waste all that effort in launching knoppix? Tomsrtbt is
surely much faster loading and is tuned for such tasks.