Knoppix 3.2 is available!

[edro]

http://www.knoppix.org/

Probably the BEST operating system/utility CD known to man! Has almost 2gb compressed onto one 700mb CD, and all for FREE!

Just pop it in your bootable CD-ROM, and it is a fully functional OS! You should really try it out... I use it on my laptop.

The bad thing.... it you restart, you lose all your settings (it's reading it on the fly, and off your RAM). The good thing is, you can install it if you want.

 

[edro]

Oops.... kinda a repost.

Oh well, this needs to be posted TWICE!

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: edro13
The bad thing.... it you restart, you lose all your settings (it's reading it on the fly, and off your RAM). The good thing is, you can install it if you want.

Acutally, the new Knoppix can use USB keys (and such) for permanent home directories, so you can keep all your personal settings. Just bring the CD and your USB key with you.

 

[spyordie007]

everyone quit downloading it from perdue so I can have more of their bandwidth

-Spy

 

[ivwshane]

Does anyone know what's new? Is there a "what's new" page available besides having to download the whole image.

 

[Netopia]

BitTorrent also has the knoppix iso for download.

Just FYI

Joe

 

[civad]

Still...on..a..I-will-not-download-GNU/Linux-isos-anymore-and-burn-and-install-them mode....

but nice to know that new distros (or newer versions of existing ones) are still coming up ..

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: civad
Still...on..a..I-will-not-download-GNU/Linux-isos-anymore-and-burn-and-install-them mode....

but nice to know that new distros (or newer versions of existing ones) are still coming up ..

The nice thing about this one is you dont have to install it, if you dont like what it's doing just shut the machine off.

-Spy

 

[civad]

I know, I have used Knoppix before, but its just that after installing Debian on my machine, I dont think I would want to get anything else ..

 

[duuuma]

i downloaded knoppix (KNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-04-10-EN.iso), burned the .iso on CD and tried to boot to the CD....no go, boot failures. Any ideas why this might be happening? Thanks!

 

[AndyHui]

Not sure. Downloading now. Not all mirrors are completely up to date with the 4-10 release, and some of the mirrors have broken uploads of the 4-10 release as well. Pick from the first couple of mirrors as listed on the Knoppix homepage.

The 4-9 release was corrupted on upload, the 4-10 is the corrected version. The good thing about this version is that ALSA sound support is now included....start it with the knoppix alsa cheatcode.

Looks like I might finally get support for my Audigy. Will find out in a couple of hours (when it finishes downloading).

Use the MD5 checksum to verrify the integrity of your download.

 

[vailr]

My copy of the 4/10/2003 iso did not want to burn under Nero. It insisted on burning to a CDRW, instead of a CDR. But using Stomp RecordNowMax, burned fine to a CDR.
Can someone explain (to a newbie) how to enable sound on an Audigy? The startup seems to recognize the Audigy, but sound is still not working.
TIA

 

[AndyHui]

Boot with the code "knoppix alsa".

Works fine with my Audigy (finally!), but there's no treble and bass control. Kmix is now started as a service, so you don't need to manually start it yourself.

 

[duuuma]

My problem must be the same as yours...I'm using Nero also. I guess I'll try having someone burn it and see.

Originally posted by: vailr
My copy of the 4/10/2003 iso did not want to burn under Nero. It insisted on burning to a CDRW, instead of a CDR. But using Stomp RecordNowMax, burned fine to a CDR.
Can someone explain (to a newbie) how to enable sound on an Audigy? The startup seems to recognize the Audigy, but sound is still not working.
TIA

 

[ivwshane]

Originally posted by: AndyHui
Boot with the code "knoppix alsa".

Works fine with my Audigy (finally!), but there's no treble and bass control. Kmix is now started as a service, so you don't need to manually start it yourself.

Awesome! I'll try that when I get home.

 

[ivwshane]

Well I tried the "knoppix alsa" but I still don't get sound with my audigy. Is there anything else I need to configure?

 

[AndyHui]

It worked for me.

I use knoppix alsa wheelmouse screen=1024x768

 

[pitupepito2000]

Does anybody here know how to get Knoppix to work with an usb mouse. I have a Logitech usb mouse and it doesn't work on Knoppix. I can get around without using it, but it is kind of hard to browse the internet without a mouse. I have tried using my keypad as a mouse, but it is not the same as having a mouse.

Thanks for the help,
pitupepito

 

[AndyHui]

You need to start with knoppix mousedev for all USB mice.

 

[pitupepito2000]

I tried it, but it didn't work my usb logitech usb mouse still doesn't work under knoppix.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Run "lsmod" and paste the output here.

Do "cat /dev/input/mice", move the mouse around and see if it prints out any garbage.

 

[pitupepito2000]

This is what lsmod gives me:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
radeon 94144 0 (unused)
autofs4 8724 1 (autoclean)
af_packet 13480 0 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 4380 0 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 2876 0 (autoclean)
ntfs 50816 0 (autoclean)
agpgart 34752 1
soundcore 3396 0 (autoclean)
tulip 38592 1
serial 51908 1 (autoclean)
usb-uhci 21868 0 (unused)
usbcore 57120 1 [usb-uhci]
apm 9644 1
rtc 6940 0 (autoclean)
cloop 5456 1


Thanks for the help,
pitupepito

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

You should also have mousedev and usbmouse, when you booted with "knoppix mousedev", it didn't give any errors or anything? Maybe you made a typo? It's weird that it would work for AndyHui fine but not for you.

 

[pitupepito2000]

This is what my /etc/mtab file says:

/dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0
/dev/cloop /KNOPPIX iso9660 ro 0 0
/dev/shm /ramdisk tmpfs rw,size=201352k 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0666 0 0
automount(pid333) /mnt/auto autofs rw,fd=6,pgrp=333,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0


This mtab file says which file systems or things are mounted right now. Does this help at all. I don't know why it is not working. I wish I could get knoppix working.

Thanks for your help,
pitupepito

 

[udonoogen]

do you guys know of a good and EASY way to set up a dual boot system when my computer starts up? i wouldnt mind trying out linux every once in awhile ... but windows XP is where i'm at right now. any recommended software? thanks!