KNOPPIX( was Re: [H-GEN] Resizing partitions)

[Sandra Milne]

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On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:38, Tony Nugent shared the following ideas:

> BTW, someone recently mentioned using a bootable linux-on-a-cd
> distro...
>
>   I recently came across KNOPPIX (which is based on mandrake/kde)
>   and I was _very_ impressed with it.  I got it from a recent DVD
>   edition of Linux Format (a UK-based mag) and it was fairly trivial
>   to reburn it onto a 650Mb cdrom.  It uses a compressed filesystem
>   and claims to have the equivalent of around 2Gb of files packed
>   onto a single disc.

I wanted this but the network speeds at the last meeting were such that I 
couldn't get it within the time the meeting was running. And Optusnet cable 
doesn't give me any free downloads so I can't get it off a mirror they host.

Could I perhaps swap you a blank cd for a burnt copy of it at tomorrow's 
meeting if you'll be there? I would like to play with it and perhaps suggest 
using it for recovery work at my place of employment.

>   Despite running mostly from dvd/cdrom, it was easily fast enough
>   to be quite useable.  It dynamically allocated ~600Mb to a
>   ramdrive (from my 1Gb ram, less on a box with 256Mb), and it found
>   and by default used the linux swap partitions on the local HDDs.
>   (It has lots of bootup options to configure its runtime
>   behaviour).

Sounds similar to virtuallinux, but I heard that knoppix is built on debian 
(am I wrong here?) and this I very much like. (Being the debian elitist that 
I am)

>   It is very functional, with drivers and utilities to use all my
>   hardware, including sound cards, 3d video cards (voodoo3, TNT,
>   geforce4/440), ide and scsi cdrom burners, usb devices, and
>   tv/radio tuner.  It certainly has a lot packed into it, including
>   lots of useful rescue tools, games and so on.  Network-ready with
>   a dhcpd server available.  You can hardly notice that it isn't a
>   full-blown installation running from a hard drive.  Impressive.

Sounds like it might be solid enough to run a router/server. Would you 
recommend it? As in, is it secure, or is there no root password (as with 
virtuallinux which is really supposed to be a demo linux). etc etc

Sandra.
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