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Knoppix Tips and Tricks

Posted by michael on from the sweet-debian-goodness dept.

cosog writes "Robert Storey writes in a thorough review about Knoppix: 'Some people even take a Knoppix disk with them when they go shopping for a new computer, a clever way to ensure that the hardware will be Linux compatible before you purchase it.' His article discusses things like: booting, rescuing, installing on HDD, tips'n'tricks, etc... A nice read for everyone interested in Linux (and Knoppix in particular ;)."

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  1. Re:Jesus Saves! by cgranade · · Score: 0, Troll

    Knoppix saves, too, you know.
    Guess that means there's more than one way, eh?

    --

    #define DRM chmod 000

  2. I take Debian 3.0 PC shopping! by Debian+Troll's+Best · · Score: 1, Troll
    A self-booting distro is a great way of testing PC compatibility, and of course it won't upset the sales assistants who are obviously quite paranoid about customers installing strange software on their precious floor-models. But there are a few shortcomings of testing out PCs in this fashion. Since everything runs off the CD-ROM, how do you test the most important part of using a Debian-based distro...upgrading and installing software with apt-get?

    A few months ago I was shopping around for a new PC (Bruce Perens was around at my place a while back to beg for scraps of food, but got excited and lost control of his bladder in close proximity to my ATX tower case). I found a local PC dealer that I liked the look of, but I couldn't be sure that the newish ATI Radeon 9800XT video card in it would be properly supported by apt-get. I asked the shop staff if they would mind if I brought in my own hard drive and do an install of Debian 3.0 onto it. They didn't mind at all (apparently Bruce Perens used to beg for food all the time at their store, so they were quite familiar with Debian).

    They were really great about it. They even let me stay in the shop overnight to complete the Debian installation! Luckily I started it in the morning, otherwise I would have been there over the weekend as well! Anyway...by about lunchtime the next day I had Debian running sweet on their box, and began to test out apt-get. WOW is all I can say!!! That Radeon 9800XT made the progress marks in apt-get fly past! It must have been updating packages at about 350fps!!!

    I decided to buy the machine after all that, and I got Bruce a sandwich on the way home too. He loves that kind of attention. All I can hope is that he doesn't show his appreciation by whizzing on my new GNU/Opteron ATX box! apt-get peace out kids!

    1. Re:I take Debian 3.0 PC shopping! by Debian+Troll's+Best · · Score: 0, Troll

      Yeah like 'apt-get expose' was plausible ;-). I'm stilll on holidays and I need to warm up. But even to pull one sucker in with the blatent Perens bashing is still OK.

  3. Re:MIRROR: It SEEMS TO BE SLASDOTTED. by Wonko+the+Sane · · Score: 0, Troll

    You have way too much time on your hands.

    On the other hand, it is kind of funny; the sound file is a nice touch.