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.
-----Original Message----- From: Brian Kelsay
It will boot into 128MB w/ no swap. It's a little slower at 128, but useable. 256 should be fine. I don't know what the low end ram is. One possible Knoppix problem is the large number of daemons that auto start at boot.
Brian Kelsay
lerninlinux@comcast.net 12/12/04 11:37PM >>>
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).
Your need sounds more like a task for Tom's rootboot (tomsrtbt). Why waste all that effort in launching knoppix? Tomsrtbt is surely much faster loading and is tuned for such tasks.
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:48:20 -0600, Brian Densmore DensmoreB@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
HAH! I've booted it the same way on a laptop with 64MB RAM. A release from about a year ago, which is now installed on this laptop (which has half a gig) in fact.
Now, somebody beat THAT!
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. If you use it as a general-purpose system recovery/rescue disk, and you're dealing with a system with some corruption or failures on the hard drive, then using an existing swap partition could be hazardous.
The lnx-bbc, in contrast, mounts partitions read-only, and only activates existing swap if directed to do so. This was a deliberate design choice.
--- Brian Densmore DensmoreB@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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