Knoppix (was: Data retrieval from dead laptop)

[Roger H. Goun]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:49:30PM -0400, Erik Price wrote:
> pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> 
> >Will it just not boot?  I highly recommend getting a copy of Knoppix 
> >on CD and attempting to boot from that.  My wife's laptop died not 
> >too long ago with a bad hard drive failure.  I was able to boot off 
> >of CD with Knoppix, which correctly identified all the system 
> >hardware, allowed me easily start the network stuff, mount the NTFS 
> >file system, and rsync all the directories she needed to my server 
> >upstairs, and make it available to her via Samba so she could at 
> >least access it from her Windows system :)
> 
> Man!  I wish I'd thought of that a few weeks ago!  I was in a similar 
> situation to the OP.
> 
> I'm going to keep a copy of Knoppix in my car's emergency kit.

Yes, Knoppix is way cool. I burned a copy a couple of months ago, to
see if I could wean my wife off the one remaining Windows box in the
house and onto something easier to support.

Knoppix recognized everything in the box (an IBM Aptiva), but its
XFree86 kept hanging with the SiS video chipset, and it was *slow*,
even when I maxed out memory and copied the CD image to the hard drive
and ran it from there.

Eventually I set it up to dual boot Red Hat 9, which handled the video
adapter just fine. But though it pains me to say it, Evolution and
Galeon are incredibly slow compared to Outlook Express and Internet
Explorer on the same hardware, at least on this hardware (and yes,
there was plenty of swap).

-- R.

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Roger H. Goun                  Brentwood Country Animal Hospital, P.C.
Chief Kennel Officer           Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
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