The DVD spindles have half as many and they will twice as much time to burn.
For your old PC, you prolly need the syslinux-based DamnSmall .iso image. I had a similar problem on my laptop after version 0.8.
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. ---Occam
-----Original Message----- From: Leo Mauler [mailto:webgiant@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 7:20 AM To: Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO Subject: RE: KNOPPIX 4.0 English DVD version released
--- "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" brian.kelsay@kcc.usda.gov wrote:
The idea was to hand out the CD version when it is released. DVDs are still too expensive to toss out to complete strangers something they may never use.
Given that there are DVD spindles which are either at or approaching the cost of CD spindles (such as $15 DVD spindles), the cost issue isn't quite the same as it was a couple years ago.
For your older PC, you might try DamnSmallLinux. http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/486.html "Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram."
Tried damnsmalllinux on it. The CD won't boot directly by itself, though I haven't tried booting from a floppy into the CD yet.
Brian
-----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces@kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of Leo Mauler Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 9:23 PM To: kclug@kclug.org Subject: Re: KNOPPIX 4.0 English DVD version released
I finally managed to boot the DVD on a 1.3Ghz Duron machine with 512MB RAM. They aren't kidding when they say that this release is overloaded: I counted something like 80 items in the Internet applications menu. Thats just too big.
It also takes ten minutes to boot, unlike the CD version (3.9) which only took a couple minutes from the first KNOPPIX screen to the desktop.
I say hand out KNOPPIX v3.9 LiveCD, not the monster DVD version.
From another of your emails: Yes, I do have a spare 90Mhz Pentium Laptop but with only 16MB RAM it just doesn't have the power to run most LiveCDs (or for that matter the *installer* on the flashier Linux install CDs), so its not really a good demo machine.