On Monday 05 July 2004 01:16, you wrote:
> --- Michael Sammartano <volinaz@cox.net> wrote
>
>  I would also like to use
>
> > Knoppix to it's
> > capacity as it is real easy to use, but I am not
> > that familiar with
> > Debian, therefore I will continue to use it solely
> > on cd.
>
> When and IF you use knoppix, and have a partition that
> can take the 700mb in stride, the next time you boot
> knoppix, tell it
>
> boot: knoppix26 tohd=/dev/partition
>
> As it will 'install' a mirror of the cdrom and free
> the cdrom to be removed after it is done copying it to
> the partition.
>
> Then the next time you boot after that, all you have
> to do is just:
>
> boot: knoppix26 fromhd=scan
>
> and it will spend about 1 second or so reading vmlinux
> off the cdrom before it is freed up to use the burn
> capablity (assuming yours is a combo reader/burner).
>
> Also, it is MUCH faster and not as picky about doing
> two or more things at once as the hd is soooo much
> faster than the cdrom.
>
> Nothing changed (except the freed up cdrom tray), just
> the 'location' and speed that the 'knoppix' program is
> read. Still uses ramdisk, etc.
>
> Just my two cents worth!!
>

That's pretty cool, I'd never thought of that approach.  I've actually 
installed Knoppix to the hard drive in a couple of my systems, following the 
instructions you can easily find via Google "Knoppix hard drive install" (I 
would repost them here, except I'm just being lazy as I forgot where I put 
the file.)   I seem to remember someone thought installing Knoppix to the 
hard drive was a difficult process, but unless you're totally GUI-dependent 
it's quite simple.  I've been a Mandrake fan for a long time (SuSE is good 
as well) but it's hard for me to say enough good things about Knoppix.  It's 
hardware detection capabilities really rock, as the recent thread about "why 
does Knoppix detect it and nobody else" attests.  I was never very enthused 
about Debian, because of the comparitive difficulty of its install, but 
Knoppix really levels the playing field.  I also use Knoppix as a 
general-purpose diagnostic and repair tool.  Sometimes when I'm trying to get 
another distro to work, I throw the Knoppix CD in and see what it does, then 
make notes and manually configure the other distro in the same way.  I was 
also recently able to use it to copy a Windows 95 partition in a situation 
where both PQ DiskCopy and Norton Ghost failed, due to some minor disk 
errors.   (Wimps!  :-) )

Vaughn

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