I could figure out what you were saying...

Post #55,053 by Another Scott 10/5/02 11:01:56 AM Reply	I could figure out what you were saying... Thanks for going to the trouble. Can I assume that you fixed all of the default-Deutsch behavior in KNOPPIX? I'm tempted to grab a copy to see how it'll behave with my 64 MB EISA/VLB 486/133 running OS/2, but I honestly don't have the time to play with it. I don't expect it'll run very well on such a slow machine. :-( How are you liking KNOPPIX? Thanks. Cheers, Scott.
Post #55,056 by folkert 10/5/02 11:37:44 AM Reply	Me personally... October 3rd, Thursday night, 2002, Knoppix saved my bacon... I had to restart my firewall after 375 days of uptime... shucks... 2.4.14 Kernel on RH-7.2... A several thousand TeraBytes of traffic through... a thousand (or so) TeraBytes of traffic blocked... oh well... FS checks on everything this boo... DAM... I don't skip em... usually they are fine... BUT "`/var`" was getting short reads on the fsck... DAM! it was stuck at ~3.1% checked, couldna mount it properly, couldna do squat. Clock was ticking with a Worldcom employee on the other end of the Fiber we were gonna test... ~$6 a minute. Well... I boot into Knoppix off the CD runlevel 2, mount "`/`" make a sym-link from "`/usr/var/`" to "`/var`", then mounted "`/var`" dirty, copied everything I needed "`/usr/var`". Modified "`/etc/fstab`" with "`vi`", restarted... Shew... all was well with the world... in my view at least... Best part is... I have GB-Enet to the MERIT Backbone... throttled of course... (at least I haven't found a way to bump up against any limit it yet) I was only getting ~4500K-Bytes a second on 1 machine from an ftp server at MSU that I know has a 45Mbit ATM connection to the Backbone... just 5 hops away... Plus from UofM, doing the same thing on another machine ~9500K-Bytes a second from one with a 155Mbit ATM connection... at the SAME TIME!!!!! And this all without I2... hmmm... what was I2 supposed to do? Dunno about you, but I don't believe the cap is on place... we only suppose to get 10Mbit... Now, onto Knoppix, I am getting the bugs worked out myself and am getting closer to having it working on nearly anything I shoot it at. Also a HD install proggy is in the works, Shell/Perl script... but hey they in it available... I currently am dividing my time betwixt RH-8.0 and working out all the beautiful changes they made and how... and Knoppix v3.1 betas. I like the fact they are catching the same things I am before I send a bug-report in... I really want v3.1 to be rocking locked ON! `greg - Grand-Master Artist in IT, curley95@attbi.com -- [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!] Your friendly Homeland Security Officer reminds: Hold Thumbprint to Screen for 5 seconds, we'll take the imprint, or Just continue to type on your keyboard, and we'll just sample your DNA.`
Post #55,226 by kmself 10/7/02 2:59:40 AM Reply	Old, slow, iron Your 486 is going to run slightly better than "Stumpy", a 486 8 MB system I'm running Debian on. In the case of Knoppix, the full visual environment will probably be tons happier on PII or better CPU, 64 MB minimum. You can launch to runlevel 2 (there's a boot options screen accessible at boot time), which is a console-only session. Your system should support this. Bus speed and accessing the compressed filesystem may introduce some lag. 64 MB should be a lot happier than 8 though. -- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever. Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]
Post #55,237 by pwhysall 10/7/02 7:40:04 AM Reply	That'd be "knoppix 2" at the boot prompt Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #55,323 by kmself 10/7/02 4:14:01 PM Reply	Point being that the options are enumerated... ...by pressing F2 -- which is itself indicated at the default root prompt. Cool thing about Knoppix -- you can boot many different ways suiting your needs, easily. -- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever. Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]
Post #55,358 by pwhysall 10/7/02 7:54:37 PM Reply	Re: Point being that the options are enumerated... I was pointing out because the list you get when you press F2 is somewhat vast. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]

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