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.
-----Original Message----- From: Brian Kelsay
It will boot into 128MB w/ no swap. It's a little slower at 128, but useable. 256 should be fine. I don't know what the low end ram is. One possible Knoppix problem is the large number of daemons that auto start at boot.
Brian Kelsay
[email protected] 12/12/04 11:37PM >>>
I have taken old parts and assembled a test system, I would like to know if Knoppix will boot into 256 mb of memory only. No hard drive, no floppy. I am wanting to use it as a test station for hard drives, (checking if they are bad and fdisking and such).
Your need sounds more like a task for Tom's rootboot (tomsrtbt). Why waste all that effort in launching knoppix? Tomsrtbt is surely much faster loading and is tuned for such tasks.