Anyone try Knoppix 3.3?

godzilla525godzilla525 Western Pennsylvania Member
edited October 2003 in Science & Tech
I'm a total dummy when it comes to linux... but I like this idea... it runs entirely from a CD-ROM and uses a RAM drive... thereby not wrecking Windows any more than my failing IBM Travelstar HDD already did.

The only thing I had to tell it was to run at 1600x1200 and configure my TCP/IP settings...

the good points... contains OpenOffice, Gaim, Mozilla, XMMS, etc. all ready to run. Reads NTFS volumes, even over USB.

the bad points... doesn't run as root, can't write to NTFS volumes, apparently no support for external volumes over firewire. (would have been nice to back up some data that way...)

I went round and round trying to use OpenSSH to access my network storage space to upload my email store from outlook express... I later found out that I was trying to SSH to the old FTP server and not the new one. Oops. :doh:

I didn't try to print with it. In a post-secondary scholastic sitiuation it might be better just to email documents to yourself over webmail and print from a computer lab.

It's good if you want to try out and learn Linux and don't want the hassle of actually installing it over windows. It's also good if your HDD tanks a couple of important Windows files, and you need to get back up and running quickly.

Comments

  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    I have a Knoppix CD, but I dunno what version, I got it a month ago or so though. I have it in case my HDD crashes or something.
  • seversphereseversphere
    edited October 2003
    I like the ones with games like morphix. I can go anywhere and start playing on a nice system.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    You wont get write support for NTFS on ANY linux distro because it is still experemental and will screw the drives up very easily.

    Firewire drive support is possible but hard to set up with any linux distro, as USB drive support is easy to compile into the kernel but FW drives require extra work.

    NS
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited October 2003
    You can't get NTFS support because Microsoft has never openly released the file system specifications. They've been made available to certain high-level partners IIRC, but there's certainly no public documentation of the file-system to the level required for an operating system to interact with it. What is available public is generally reverse engineered (essentially educated guess and test work).

    Oh and yeah Knoppix is great :D, its good for amazing people.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    qparadox had this to say
    You can't get NTFS support because Microsoft has never openly released the file system specifications.

    Doesn't stop them from making their own though, it has full read support and write support is improving....

    NS
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