-----Original Message----- From: D. Joe
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:48:20AM -0600, Brian Densmore wrote:
I've booted Knoppix on my laptop which only has 96MB RAM. I didn't touch any keys to do this. Now to be fair there is a swap partition on the drive and it may have seen this and used it. In fact the creators would be foolish not to look for and use it.
How foolish it is depends on what you use the disk for.
Yes, it is all relative, but based on the designed use/audience for Knoppix (aka, GUI desktop, Linux newbies, Windows users), it would be most desirable to boot using as much power and with as little interaction as possible. Hence I made my comment based on the intended use and audience for Knoppix. My wife who is rather PC-illiterate, wouldn't know how to respond for a request to mount a swap disk partition and would probably make her nervous and she'd probably get frustrated and give up trying to use it. So I stand by my original statement. Certainly there are risks in doing that, but as I said before Knoppix isn't the ideal distro for troubleshooting broken systems. There are much better choices for such tasks.
Brian