knoppix question

Leo Mauler webgiant at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 30 13:38:41 CST 2004


--- Brian Densmore <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com> 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.

I've booted KNOPPIX in 96MB RAM with a hard drive
formatted into nothing but FAT32 partitions.  Typing
"mount" under such a boot reveals no mounted swap
partitions/files.  KNOPPIX boots into the GUI in 80MB
or more, though anything resource-intensive (like
OpenOffice) will slow it to a crawl.



	
		
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