Knoppix: Any caveats?

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:42:00 PDT 2004


On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I have used KNOPPIX now on four machines, an ATX Athlon, two old AT
> computers, one without enuf memory for KDE (ran icewhatever), and a
> fairly new HP laptop computer.  Works on all. The most amazing thing,
> to me, was the laptop. Not only did it work, it ran with both the mouse
> surrogate on the keyboard and also with the wheel mouse. It detected the
> sound card and configured the network all automatically. (DHCP). It even found
> my old ISA sound card on my Athlon, which, as memory serves, was a bear
> to configure with Caldera 2.4. The most painless "installs" I have ever
> had for linux. It detects and mounts (read only) all the hard drive
> partitions, whether windows or linux.

Note, that you *can* remount them rw in Knoppix by right clicking on the
icon, and choosing remount.

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