[olug] Knoppix question

[Sean Edwards]

I use Tom's Root Boot ("The Most Linux You Can Fit On
A Floppy") for a task such as this.

http://www.toms.net/rb/

-=Sean Edwards=-
cybersean3000 at yahoo.com

--- Shaughn <shaughn at emosai.net> wrote:
> I use knoppix for this sort of thing ALL the time.
> The only thing is KDE 
> requires 128megs of ram. So it will require a swap
> file on the dos 
> partition, it will also let you know this. If this
> is the way you go, 
> KDE will run very slowly as everything's going to a
> swap file. So you 
> will most likely want to run command line for it.
> 
> Another thing, hard drives don't really 'loose' an
> operating system, 
> generally when this happens, the drive is shot or
> very close to being 
> shot. So you might want to download a CD Tool called
>  UBCD 2.0 (availble 
> on source-forge) this will give you some software
> hard drive testing 
> utilities.
> 
> VHP3 wrote:
> 
> >Recently, my g/f's computer basically died.  Where
> as
> >it used to run Win98, it know says "Operating
> System
> >not found", so I was thinking of using Knoppix to
> >recover her data onto a floppy.  But the thing is
> her
> >laptop, on which this happened, is seriously
> old...P2
> >400, 32 MB RAM I do believe.  Since this is way
> below
> >the minimum specs to run KDE, I'm guessing that
> this
> >will drop me into command-line only.  
> >
> >But my question(s) is a) has anyone tried to boot
> >Knoppix on such a resource limited machine before?,
> >and if so b) what else can I expect?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Vince
> >
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