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.
MicroCenter has 50 DVD spindles, plus or minus, for $15 each. Granted, they have 50 CD spindles for $10 each (and printable CD spindles for $11 each, 50 CDs), but the cost of DVDs is approaching the cost of CDs a lot faster than you think. Yes it takes about twice as long to burn four times as much data onto a DVD. On the other hand, ITEC isn't until the end of October and that leaves two months to burn a couple hundred DVDs. Anyway, having said all that in favor of the KNOPPIX DVD edition, I think the technical issues alone are enough to keep us from wanting to have the DVD edition to hand out at ITEC. The KNOPPIX DVD is so big and unwieldy that most people will find it difficult to use, especially people who have had no experience with Linux. If the KNOPPIX folks start to make a KNOPPIX DVD which is much more streamlined and, to put it bluntly, more like their CD version, then we could consider handing them out at ITEC. --- "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" <brian.kelsay@kcc.usda.gov> wrote:
The DVD spindles have half as many and they will twice as much time to burn.
-----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.
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