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Monday, December 1, 2003

Knoppix is good

Woo hoo, I'm posting this from Knoppix. I've been trying to burn a Knoppix CD for a while now, but my old POS HP CD-Writer 8100 series kept making coasters. I finally got to install my dad's TDK VeloCD 5200b that he doesn't use anymore since he got a new computer with a CD writer built in, and here we are. I'd highly recommend the TDK, by the way. Seems solid, burns fast, and comes with good software.

Now, if I can only figure out how to change my keyboard to Dvorak [well, that was easy. They have a little keyboard configurator applet right in the taskbar], increase my resolution, and access my home network I'll be all set. Plus, I'd like to learn how this thing can save my settings, and if there's any way to still run it from the CD while installing a lot of the software on my hard drive so that it doesn't have to access the CD so much.

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Ingve wrote:

POS? :-) That seems a little harsh, I still have an old HP 8100i that has never written even a single coaster, but the standard Knoppix CD-image is larger than the maximum size supported by the 8100 CD-Writer, you can google for the exact limit but http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200306/msg03952.html gives ballpark numbers. And yeah, Knoppix rocks.

∴ Ingve | 1-Dec-2003 5:18am est | #3390

Knoppix is cool. I've been playing with Adios lately, which is significant in that it's derived from Red Hat. This means that it might be possible to use RPMs on it, and eventually install Kylix, which is something that I would never be able to do using a Debian variant like Knoppix.

Adios also has a boot-menu option that lets you select from several options for using your hard drive in addition to the bootable CD. Anything from not at all to full image install.

Note that Adios is also a larger than normal CD image. I burned 3 coasters before getting it to work.

greg wrote:

∴ greg | 1-Dec-2003 11:33am est | #3393

but the standard Knoppix CD-image is larger than the maximum size supported by the 8100 CD-Writer

Ah, that would do it. Strangely, the last time I tried to burn Knoppix with it, the progress meter got to 100% and kept "writing" until I had to kill it. That's probably why.

see: ... CheatCodes

Awesome, thanks. Now, if I only knew the keyboard= setting for dvorak. Ahh, this looks like it's it.

∴ Keith | 1-Dec-2003 4:17pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #3401

you can install knoppix by typing:
$ sudo knoppix-installer

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