[Gllug] Knoppix and similar

[Jack Bertram]

* Jim Bailey <jim at freesolutions.net> [040917 15:44]:
> On Sep 17, 09:03, farnsaw at stonedoor.com wrote:
> > Don't forget Gnoppix :) Debian based with Gnome.  It is pretty good, but
> > I am sure it runs better from the HD.  If you figure that the CD is 700
> > Mb Max, then if you can free up 1 Gig of disk space, that will let you
> > install it to your HD, and have swap space plus a bit extra.  Then it
> > will run very well.
> 
> Sorry Andrew but RTFM you will need over 3GB to do a disk install of
> Knoppix. 

This is a little rude isn't it?

> Knoppix is on a compressed file system AFAIK which is why you get those
> anoying delays as the app is uncompressed.

Anyway, there's nothing to stop you installing the CD image to the hard
disk (where it will take up 700MB of space, leaving room for swap etc) and
running it from there just as from the original CD.  This would be faster
than running it from the CD.

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