knoppix question

[lerninlinux at comcast.net]

Ended up downloading a few distro's/ toys.  Does turn out hard drive is bad, rma time.  As my last MS dos boot disk had gone bad (last made in Jan 99) I ended up using both lnx-bbc and Freedos.  Trying to get away from Microsoft as much as possible, but those old single disc boot floppy are handy for all the dead but with warranty drives I have bought over the years.

Thanks


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: D. Joe 
> > 
> > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:42:38AM -0600, Brian Densmore wrote:
> > > > -----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 
> > [. . . ]
> > 
> > >From the knoppix.org main page (English version):
> > 
> > "KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue
> > system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial
> > software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything
> > on a hard disk."
> > 
> > So, I guess it depends on how one reads that list--as a set of
> > design goals in order of decreasing importance to the designer,
> > or as a simple enumeration of the kinds of uses one might
> > anticipate.  
> I am not contesting the usefulness for Knoppix, but they do state
> Linux demo and educational CD *before* rescue system. Any Linux distro
> can be used as a rescue system, so stating that as a goal is redundant.
> 
> > 
> > I suspect you've conflated the design goals of the disk with the
> > uses to which you put it.
> Perhaps, but we differ in our interpretations. Yours is perfectly
> valid and I consider mine so also. Opinions are after all opinions.
> 
> 
> > 
> > > as I said before Knoppix isn't the ideal distro for
> > > troubleshooting broken systems. There are much better choices
> > > for such tasks.
> > 
> > How many different live CDs have you used to fix broken systems,
> I have no need to fix broken systems. I have not had a broken system
> since switching to Linux 7 years ago (or more).
> [That is not to say that I haven't trashed my system by doing stupid
> experiments, but I have not had a system break. In these times tomsrtbt
> was all I needed. Or a new install of an upgraded version. I have yet
> to lose a single character of data from a Linux system. I have
> trashed: programs, libraries , rpm databases, and gentoo configurations.
> None of which, I suspect, could be fixed neatly by any tool.]
> 
> > 
> > How suited KNOPPIX is depends on the specific task at hand:
> True. I was merely stating that *if I were to want to fix a 
> broken system* I wouldn't want to wait for X to boot, for KDE to 
> launch, etc. I am, I guess of the old school that way. If you
> need to fix something, do it from the CLI. It's faster and you
> most likely will have more control. But then I don't do much
> in the way of fixing broken/borked Windows. I find it saves me
> having to digest massive quantities of Mylanta. 
> 
> ;')
> 
> 
> IMHO,
> Brian Densmore
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