Man...it's free! GPL, no one pays anything.

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Hmm, interesting!! I am gonna download right now! It won't affect my RedHat or XP installation now will it? And, don't listen to Mo...thanks for this info man it sounds great! Even if you did make the damn thing I don't care...

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so, it's a bootable cd with stuff on it. what's the big deal? gee, wow, look, it can detect usb! duh! come out of the stone age, and join the civilized world, please.

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Enigmaaaaa is a moron. You clearly miss the point of this tool due to your infant brain.

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Verbal, Thanks for being normal...sheesh! How did all these anti-linux twits end up in this forum?? There are like 6 Windows ones! Anyways, I never wrote it, I don't know how to program. I'm a techie. The CD doesn't need a hard drive to run. As with all linux, don't WRITE to NTFS - could cause corruption. I just showed it to my co-workers and they loved it. I can understand mo's comments as a joke, but enigmaaaa is in his/her own world. Come back to earth. T

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Can't wait, til i dl and burn the iso ;)

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Hi Tero, "Newb" here- Thanks for the heads up on this. It was written up a few months ago at extremetech.com discussions but I had forgotten about it. I'm going to burn it & have a look-see today. BTW- I just did a partition/format of my 100GB drive in order to load Win98SE & W2K Pro (8 parts. total w/98 & 2K on the first two). The rest will be used for eveything else to keep the mess to a min. I then was going to hook up another 13GB drive to try & house Mandrake 8.2 & Lycoris.... any tips on the best way to go about this? I'm brand new to Linux so go slooooww ;)

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Tero, > As with all linux, don't WRITE to > NTFS - could cause corruption. Knoppix can read NTFS - even compressed NTFS - but I didn't try writing to an NTFS disk yet. After reading your comment, I'm glad i didn't. Do you have any pointers to explain the basis for this problem?? BTW - Thanks for the info. Knoppix is really fantastic! I feel like I already got my Christams present for this year. Q-Dot

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Re: Tracy I may not be the best person to advise on your question as I haven't done more than dual boot 2K or 98 with Linux. Basically the Mandrake CUSTOM install will present you with your partitions. Install to a fresh parition and to avoid any MBR hiccups, use a boot disk to boot into Linux. If you do a search on this forum you should find a lot of good info from experts on the best ways to do this. The dual boot questions are quite frequent. Re: Q-Dot I don't know the technical reasons, but I'm assuming that Microsoft won't help out with compatibility with NTFS for other O/Ss. I'm glad my recommendation wasn't a complete waste of time. T

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Verbal is officially impressed. ;) I got it running, internet worked off the bat, sound too, everything is fine! Man this would be perfect for laptops. No hardrive needed..damn..NICE! Thanks alot man.

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Hey you all- What source/mirror did you use to get this? I'm having a devil of a time hooking up (& I'm on broadband). Does it matter HTTP or FTP? Thanks! RE: Tero I'll check out multiboot here some more- I've been playing with 2000- learning some ins & outs. One other thing I'd like to do is "Ghost" my two MS systems as they stand - clean & w/o any programs, junk, etc... so I'd be able to reinstall if I hose the whole deal during Linux. Any ideas on that? Have you used Ghost? I have the 2002 version. Tracy

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH Tero. Down loaded it last night from one of the http mirror sites. Too bad I couldn't get the it.ca site to work. DL'd at between 36k-65k, took almost 4 hours but WELL worth it. Removed my hard drives and booted the CD. It didn't find my 3C509 card, but even with my limited Linux knowledge it took less than 1/2 hour to get up on the Internet. Loaded the 3C509 driver via the KNOPPIX-Network/Internet-ADSL/PPPOE configuration. Used the Network card configuration to make sure I was DHCPing from my ISP (though that may not habe been necessary). I'm responding via Konqueror now! It did find my NetGear FA311 card, just not sure what it has done with it, yet. It also elected to use the on board ATI Rage AGP rather than my GeForce2 MX400 PCI card. I'm sure that's because of the poor BIOS on this POS e-machine (yes, boot PCI video is enabled). On board sound came up no problem too. All this on a K-6-2 450 with 128MB of RAM. TOO COOL! But what are the poor hackers and script kiddies going to do now when a simple Reboot will absolutely wipe whatever they can do? THANKS again - even if I am closer to the latter you mentioned in response 5.

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michael: My download took 4 times yours. Have DSL but could not get any speed from anywhere close by. Went to Australia at 10-12kbs 18 hours to download. Just tried booting it once. Seems pretty nice found everything except WinModem. Netword card, CD, and rest of stuff all in. Only 1 slight problem - scandisk on reboot into Win 98.

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Hey guys and girls, I tried it and I'm impressed. It seems to be a serious approach, loaded with features,. For my opinion it looks alittle bit too crowded on the desktop, but that is just a personal impression. In the future I will not advise to get a "linux on a floppy", I'd offer to get Knoppix or a Linus on a floppy to fix a problem

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I was busy tweeking Win2K when a colleague lent me this disk called Knoppix. I tried it on my Athlon 1400 - good grief!!! Its a crime that a OS can do this... free! Ever since, I have started migrating to Linux OS. I love it!

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Tero is THE MAN!!! As of today, I've spent about 1 1/2 days attempting to get X in Red Hat 7.2 to recognize my USB ports and my NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 adapter. I didn't even come close. Just as I was about to pull out my hair, I came across this thread, went to the Knoppix site, waited for about 50 min. for the download (~170 kbps), burned the ISO to CD-R via Nero and POW...Here I am posting a reply via Konquerer with all of my hardware configured. Thanks Tero!!! Naysayers be damned...

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