Knoppix

Mike Reinehr cmr
Mon May 17 11:59:57 PDT 2004


Here's a list of a number of live Linux CD's, if anyone's interested:

http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

mike

On Monday 01 March 2004 03:44 pm, Tom Wilson wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 16:12, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > I am fooling around with knoppix (for a good purpose,
> > see my posting about my memory stick.)
> >
> > Knoppix 3.3 looks really nice. It looks worthy to be a desktop OS, the
> > only problem being there is no security  and there is no GUI install.
> >
> > Has anyone installed Knoppix on their hard drive and used it a lot. I
> > would like to hear your experience.
> >
> > Joel
>
> I stalled it awhile back and it was ok.  The script wasn't bad but there
> were some issues.  Mainly only one partition, /, you had to do some
> tweaks after install to get sound to work, and you had to follow a set
> of instructions from  the website to make it display in English, unless
> you can read German, then you could set it up without the instructions.
> I have found another live cd distro, Mepis also based on Debian, that
> installs to hdd much easier, IMO, and didn't have any of the issues that
> Knoppix had after install.  It is still limited in partitions, though it
> does allow for a /home partition as well as a /.
>
> Plus the install is launched right from the desktop.  I found it very
> nice and easy and really love the distro itself.
>
>
> Tom Wilson
> McSwain Carpets
> 513.771.1400 x4433
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