Knoppix Linux Works!

[firephoto]

Hi
Well I downloaded Knoppix and burned a bootable cd and less than 5 minutes after booting I was looking at a KDE desktop! All I can say is wow :D
No use of the hard drives at all, necessary things in are in a ramdisk it looks like. I am on it now, connected to the internet through a WinXP machine that is running connection sharing on a dialup! It detected everything and works great.

Computer here is an Athlon XP 1800, Abit KR7A-RAID board, 512mb ram, Matrox G450 dual head video, firewire card, cd burner, 6 usb ports, 2 firewire, 80gb, 20gb, 2-6gb hard drives (4 drives total).

Just emailed someone a picture I just took with my Canon S200. :) The camera worked the whole time it was plugged in, although it took me forever to find out where to find the files on the camera. It was a simple find though.
camera:/
lol
Printer isn't working but I haven't set it up either though. (HP 720c)
Haven't tried the scanner either. (epson 1650)
Not bad for booting an OS from a CD.
Oh I was able to sign on to aim with GAIM.
Here's the link for more info.
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html


Just waiting for my Mandrake CD's to show up in the mail now.

Tom

[Chris Blount]

Hey this is really cool! I just downloaded it and am running it right now from a CD. It recognized everything in my system except for the sound card. Found my router and setup my network connection without asking for anything.

Finally, an easy to setup Linux that actually works! Thanks for the tip.

[gcutler]

SuSe Linux had that bootable type of CD as well. Cool to learn, but how realistic is it for real life use (the use of Ramdisc being essential, etc)? Where are customizations/modification kept? Can I add programs not included on the CD?

[firephoto]

Well I'm on my laptop now, booted off of the Knoppix CD. I had the option of making swap files on the hard drive since I only have 96mb ram on this machine.
Toshiba Satellite 325cds P233mmx
Recognized my Xircom card with no problems, sound isn't working but I haven't tried to see whats up with that. Yamaha chip in this I think.

For anyone reading this that can download big files (720mb iso) and burn bootable cd's, this is definatly worth taking a look at. It is non invasive to your current OS.

Off to try it on the Dell XPS now. ;)

Tom

[gcutler]

Just to be Contrary I'll be installing Redhat 8.0 on my new test machine (dual boot of course with Win2000Svr). I like my OSes like I like my surgeries INVASIVE :D

[firephoto]

Trying Knoppix and seeing KDE work and most all the hardware automaticly detected easily makes me really look forward to an actuall install of Mandrake linux.

I tested the Dell, all went well except I couldn't get the modem to work, which wasn't a big deal. It's a P3 650, 384mb ram, riva tnt2 graphics (or something like that lol), dvd drive controler (pci) w/ hitachi dvd drive, sony 4x burner.

I did notice that the Dells not shutting down problem must be hardware though, because when I logged off of Knoppix, ejected the cd, it just sat there. Does that with XP too, gets to the shutting down screen and just sits there instead of powering off sometimes.

Linux today is much different than 3 years ago.

Tom

[gcutler]

Originally posted by firephoto
Trying Knoppix and seeing KDE work and most all the hardware automaticly detected easily makes me really look forward to an actuall install of Mandrake linux.

I tested the Dell...

The latest versions of Redhat or Mandrake were so error free installing that I no longer consider that an issue. My only problem in the past was the 7.3 version did not support my integrated audio card on my Dell, but 8.0 of Redhat fixed that. I'd assume that all but the newest components on a Dell or other popular machines would be in the driver set. Expect a smooth install :D