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).
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I don't think so... I think the cd requires 512MB...not sure but here is a list.
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
I really like the LAS cd right under 256MB =) and is a knoppix cd do you can do intoram option =)
Jonathan
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 05:37:52 +0000, lerninlinux@comcast.net lerninlinux@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).
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i booted a box with 128M into knoppix a couple days ago without setting up a swap disk
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 05:37:52 +0000, lerninlinux@comcast.net lerninlinux@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).
If you boot to init 2 it should ave on the need for useable RAM, also takes less time ;)
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 05:37:52 +0000, lerninlinux@comcast.net lerninlinux@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).
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--- lerninlinux@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.
I routinely use KNOPPIX for network installs on older hardware, since KNOPPIX auto-senses pretty much any old network card I have plugged into the base system. This is helpful even when the base system will not be networked (such as a dial-up only system for a low-budget friend) and especially when the base system won't have a CDROM drive in it. I also get to download all manner of drivers off the Internet through KNOPPIX.
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