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

[Trent WADDINGTON]

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On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Tony Nugent wrote:

> It seems to need around 96Mb of ram to fully boot into the kde
> environment, otherwise you get twm as the window manager.  I think
> 64Mb is the minimum requirement to get a workable X environment,
> otherwise it boots into a text console and needs around 20Mb for
> that (although by creating swap files on ext/fat partitions it is
> possible to do more with it).  I have the 3.1 version, which is
> still the lastest release.  By default it is setup for german, but
> it is possible to change that at boot time.

We managed to get Knoppix to boot on a pentium machine with 48 meg of ram
at the Saturday meet.  Slow as a dog.

Trent


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