On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:47:50 +0100, "Peter Schuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [snip] > > I also think there may be another issue I haven't diagnosed yet. I tried a > > version of KNOPPIX WFTL edition from a book (Moving to Linux) but it > > wouldn't load on my machine. It asked me to insert another disk but I > > didn't have one (I got the book from the library). It did load on friends > > PC so the disk was good though it ran to slow from the CD ROM to know if > > I'd want Linux. I do know that that the regular KNOPPIX comes with two > > Knoppix is no indication on the speed of Linux - and the same goes for > any > other livecd system. Performance is greatly hampered by the slow seeking > and > reading of the CD. Especially given the (by today's standards) low amount > of > RAM we are talking about.
KNOPPIX and other operating systems in livecd form use your RAM as something like a hard drive. Little RAM = low capacity hard drive, maybe too low for KNOPPIX to load everything it needed to run on your machine. Jud _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
