Have you tried Mepis?

-mj-

ec wrote:

> Wife wanted me to wipe out the hd. We copied (twice)
> to cdrom 'her files'. 
> 
> I used three different partition managers and cannot
> get even Knoppix to write to them.
> 
> Knoppix will 'save config', make swap file, but will
> not write from OO.o or kwrite.
> 
> This is a Gateway kludge in that apparently there is a
> secondary disk controller similiar to this machine. It
> is built in whereas this one is an addon card for a
> modern hd (not one of the old pio3/4 types). the
> reason I believe it has a secondary controller is
> several fold. 
> 1. First drive (primary) is hde1 not hda1 and all
> 'logicals' are hdeX also.
> 2. That is the way this ole 350 denotes drives also
> with its secondary controller. (like that promise
> ultra 66 card that was given away at eastside
> thursday.)
> 
> Well, 'the power to be', er, the wife, doesn't want an
> installed system, but rather a 'poorman's install' of
> knoppix.
> 
> Knoppix boots from cd, but wont copy to hd. 
> 
> Strange that BEFORE I resized and reformatted the hd,
> she had no problems booting to Knoppix3.6 'poorman's
> install' version. It had a crippled w98 on hde1 and a
> one disk Suse 9 on one partition.
> 
> I cannot get it to reinstall even that 'poor man's'
> mirrored iso image! It just skips the 'knoppix
> cheatcode' to do so!
> 
> Strange!
> 
> May have to drag it down to ASU Saturday, but would
> love to fix it here.
> 
> Cyclists should expect and demand safe 
> accommodation on our public roads, 
> just as does every other user.  
> 
> Nothing more is expected. 
> 
> Nothing less is acceptable!
> 
> Long live Knoppix!!
> 
> 
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