knoppix question

[Leo Mauler]

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

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Leo Mauler
> > 
> > --- lerninlinux at comcast.net wrote:
> > 
> > > 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).  
> > 
> > The short answer is "yes".  The stated minimum 
> > for the GUI is 80MB, 128MB for using any Office
> > applications (such as OpenOffice).  I think 64MB 
> > allows you to boot into text mode.  256MB is 
> > ample RAM for running KNOPPIX.
> 
> 64 MB needed for text only mode Linux!? That is an
> insane number!  Text only Linux should be able to 
> run in 4MB, or even 1 MB. Or hey how about in 64KB? 
> Or <shudder> even 16KB?

I looked up the actual figure KNOPPIX states for "text
mode".  The number they claim is 20MB, which is not
too bad a requirement for text mode.

> Nobody will ever need more than 1MB of RAM...

Shades of Bill Gates there...  :(


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