Suggestions for a Linux LiveCD which is command-line only?
Leo Mauler
webgiant at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 27 08:48:59 CST 2008
--- "Shawn C. Powell" <shawncp at kcnet.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 26 January 2008 07:54, Leo Mauler wrote:
> > After about 24 hours only 15GB had copied between
> > the two hard drives, with 30GB to go.
>
> Something about that seems odd to me although I
> admit that when I've done similar operations I've
> only ever used "cp -av" from the command line;
> Never tried it with a GUI file manager copy.
I was using Midnight Commander at the time, which is a
text-screen (curses) tool, hence my confusion. I
agree completely that using a GUI tool in KNOPPIX
would have been a lot slower than the command line.
> If I remember correctly [and jump in here people
> :)] copy operations themselves don't use that
> much RAM as a buffer because of diminishing
> returns after the buffer gets beyond 32K/64K.
Well, the system resources were dinky, as the PC was a
PII-600Mhz. Perhaps the processor had something to do
with it, as KNOPPIX was maintaining that 1.9GB virtual
filesystem in the background. Again, command line
functions don't have the GUI overhead so I think a CLI
interface would have been a lot faster.
> Did DMA get enabled on the drives? "hdparm /dev/hda"
> for example will tell
> you.
>
> > I assume that KNOPPIX's heavy memory use was
> > slowing down the file transfer, and I think I
> > need a CLI-only LiveCD.
>
> Knoppix (at leat 5.0.1) can boot to text-only mode.
> Its one of the boot options. Its something like
> "knoppix 2".
Hmmm, didn't realize it had a text-only mode. I'll
have to try that out.
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