knoppix question

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Joe
> 
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:48:20AM -0600, Brian Densmore wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> How foolish it is depends on what you use the disk for. 

Yes, it is all relative, but based on the designed use/audience
for Knoppix (aka, GUI desktop, Linux newbies, Windows users),
it would be most desirable to boot using as much power and with 
as little interaction as possible. Hence I made my comment based
on the intended use and audience for Knoppix. My wife who is 
rather PC-illiterate, wouldn't know how to respond for a request
to mount a swap disk partition and would probably make her nervous
and she'd probably get frustrated and give up trying to use it. So 
I stand by my original statement. Certainly there are risks in doing
that, but as I said before Knoppix isn't the ideal distro for 
troubleshooting broken systems. There are much better choices for such
tasks.

Brian