[ale] Knoppix

[George Johnson]

Bob, It is also good to use if you are wanting to scare the daylights out of
someone to think a virus or something has taken over their system if you
make their system look for the cdrom to boot first then insert the knoppix
cd when they are not looking and are not up and running already.  It is a
good gag for some of those winbloze only weenies.

By the way, I am in the market for a laptop also and that is an excellent
suggestion to test it out in the store.  Problem for me is I may be getting
one on the internet but am still looking at this time.

George Johnson

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Bob Owen
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 8:52 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Knoppix

Before I bought a Toshiba 5205 from Ckt City, I wanted to make sure that 
it would run Linux.  I took a copy of Knoppix into the store and tried 
to make it boot from the CDROM.  I didn't know how to get it to boot 
from the CDROM. After asking several clerks I finally found one who said 
to hit F12 first and then I could make it boot.  It did and looked 
beaustiful.  It impressed some of the other people there.  I bought the 
laptop and am running SUSE 8.2 and am  really happy with it.

Bob

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> That is a GREAT idea!! If the stores floor model will run KNOPPIX, it'll
> run any thing Linux you can throw at it.
> 
> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 20:17, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
>>I have watched a few threads hre in regards to Knoppix.  If I
>>want to validate hardware before purchasing is Knoppix the tool
>>to use?  I also want a recovery CD that has more that the LNX-BBC.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Chris
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