KNOPPIX 4.0 English DVD version released

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

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 at 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 at 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 at kclug.org
> [mailto:kclug-bounces at kclug.org] On Behalf
> Of Leo Mauler
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 9:23 PM
> To: kclug at 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.