New convert and kit idea

[Nathan England]

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In my shop I use knoppix daily to retrieve data off crashed windows boxen.
I use it to bring up the machines, mount the drive/s, and move data across the 
network. I'm using it on just about everything from old old 486 laptops 
(which failed X because only 32 megs of ram, but mc worked) to brand new P4 
Dells. 
I have only seen one machine that didn't like knoppix, and I am blaiming that 
on lightning. The machine had some serious issues and X kept rebooting, so I 
used mc.

But my overall experience with it has been very nice.

I would like to get a copy of the new live cd from slack 8.1, but have not 
purchased it yet.

Nathan

Am 04 Freitag Oktober 2002 06:36 nachmittags/abends schrieb George Toft:
> My experience with Knoppix
>
> I am teaching Introduction to Unix/Linux at a Community College.  I
> burned 48 (or so) Knoppix CD's and gave them out to the students (I'm
> teaching two sections).  The results have not been encouraging.  On the
> Dell computers at school, Knoppix prevents the machine from rebooting
> unless the machine's power is physically unplugged.  Several student
> report problems with the graphics, including one whose PS/2 mouse does
> not work, and one whose mouse pointer is about and inch above and to the
> left of where the action actually takes place.  Another student could
> not get the CD to boot.
>
> It worked well for me, but not for a significant percentage of my
> student population.
>
> Regards,
>
> George
>
> Michelle Lowman wrote:
> > I have my first convert among my English students at PC. She brought her
> > laptop to IF2, but whoever was doing the install gave up after her
> > machine wouldn't boot from the CD. She wants to dual-boot with XP, so
> > she's going to bring her laptop to class Monday, and I'm going to
> > install Red Hat for her.
> >
> > I was thinking that it would be a good idea to create a "conversion kit"
> > for people who want to dual-boot. That way, if you ever run into anyone
> > who is ready to try Linux but isn't quite ready to give up Windows, you
> > can set them up right away. Knoppix is one alternative, but I was
> > thinking of (1)fips (or PartitionMagic if you don't mind paying), or
> > parted with a boot disk (although I've never used this one--I think it's
> > non-destructive, but correct me if I'm wrong), along with (2)your
> > favorite distro on CD(s), and (3)don't forget a boot.img floppy in case
> > you can't get the box to boot from CD. I've used fips with older
> > versions of Windows, but has anyone tried it with Windows 2000 or XP?  I
> > couldn't get it to work with 2000 and I've never tried with XP. The kit
> > could include partitioning instructions, etc. with screenshots for the
> > visual learner (like me :)).
> >
> > Whaddya think?
> >
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