On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, John Ferrell wrote:

> I have been down the route you are taking...
> I ordered Knoppix from BigCat_iso@hotmail.com
> He accepts payment from PayPal, so I felt their was no risk involved beyond 
> the cost. After looking at his pricing, it was clear that he likes to sell 
> more than a couple of disks at a time. As I recall, I ordered a couple 
> different distributions for about $10. He threw in about four more. I am 
> still wading through the order.
>
> Knoppix seemed like a good idea but it takes several minutes to boot up on a 
> 600mhz Celeron machine. There does not appear to be a simple way to avoid the 
> reconfiguration on every boot.
>
> I understand that I should be able to load it to hard disk, but just how to 
> is not obvious!

There is a command on the disk that is called knoppix-hd-install.sh or 
similar. I will look and report exactly.

The reconfiguration is slow when booting from cd. When bootimg from hdd 
it is 10 times faster.

Knoppix is great because it allows people to run linux without 
installing (or destroying) their present installation (windows or 
whatever), and with zero configuration knowledge. Otherwise Knoppix *is* 
Debian linux, in an expertly polished way.

Runnig Knoppix from cd can be 10 times slower than the same thing run 
from a hdd installation.

The reconfiguration on every boot is its strength. It allows people to 
pull and replace hardware without ever 'reinstalling' or 'installing 
drivers' or any such thing. The price is the time it takes to boot. On 
the other hand, once it's running, why turn it off ? ;-)

Peter

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