LWN: Comments on "Knoppix 3.4 Has Landed"

Knoppix 3.4 oopsing on the megaraid.ko module, boot.img

thoeme — Sun, 16 May 2004 11:18:30 +0000

The problem with oopsing SCSi modules have been fixed in KNOPPIX 3.4
release of May 10, 2004

LaTeX

kreutzm — Sat, 15 May 2004 16:21:06 +0000

Well, for quite some time the defacto latex (actually: tex, including latex)
distribution is the one from Thomas Esser, labled tetex.

LaTeX

thomas_d_stewart — Sat, 15 May 2004 12:59:04 +0000

"the most noticeable victims of the "downsizing" process were KOffice and TeTeX."

A typo, I think you meant "LaTeX".

Regards
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Tom

Knoppix 3.4 oopsing on the megaraid.ko module, boot.img

nicku — Thu, 13 May 2004 23:11:34 +0000

Yes, I found that noscsi is essential with knoppix26 on three different machines and also on VMWare; I guess the team will fix this in a new release in the near term.

Another thing is that boot.img seems to be missing (although the cheatcodes document refers to it). I need this to boot from floppy on machines with "reborn" cards, and on machines where the BIOS is locked and does not select the CD as the first boot device. Unfortunately, where I work all the lecture theatre computers have these "reborn" cards, so I am sticking with Knoppix 3.3 till I have time to make a floppy boot disk.

Interesting computer lab solution

freeio — Thu, 13 May 2004 21:01:21 +0000

This sounds like an interesting computer lab solution, where as each user leaves, the system in rebooted into a fresh install for the next user. That would be relatively cheap and effective, without the necessity of reimaging from a central server. In this case the good news and the bad news are exactly the same.

Knoppix 3.4 Has Landed

iabervon — Thu, 13 May 2004 16:16:55 +0000

Knoppix can be a nice way of installing Linux on your hard drive without getting multiple CDs or having a network connection. The live CD is nice for being able to sit down at a new machine and make it work immediately; installing to the hard drive is nice for making it run faster (loading things off of the CD as needed if not especially fast) and not needing to have the CD all the time. As far as I could tell, Knoppix off the hard drive is just like Knoppix off the CD, and most of the issues are essentially that it fails to save things across reboots, because it doesn't expect to be able to.

Knoppix 3.4 Has Landed

dougg — Thu, 13 May 2004 12:19:20 +0000

To run the lk 2.6.5 kernel in knoppix 3.4 you need to write "knoppix26" at the kernel boot line (at least in the version I have). Furthermore, on my hardware (IBM T22) it attempted to load the megaraid.ko module and that oopsed and froze. Adding "noscsi" to the boot line got around that.

who supports knoppix harddisk install?

mbanck — Thu, 13 May 2004 11:42:46 +0000

Bear in mind, though, that once you boot Knoppix from a partition on a hard disk, it effectively becomes Debian Sid, so any future requests for help should be directed to Debian mailing lists, rather than to Knoppix forums.

I'm not sure I agree with this.

It has to be said that while the largest amount of packages really is directly taken from Debian, Knoppix diverges from Debian at a few key points and those are usually the point of confusion.

Personally, I have not booted Knoppix a lot lately, but I know for a fact that questions about Knoppix (or a Knoppix harddisk install) are not really welcome in Debian IRC channels.

I've personally seen this happen on #debian a couple of days ago when somebody asked how to make bash source his ~/.bashrc and subsequently told the people he would not have a ~/.bash_profile. After a couple of minutes it turned out he had installed Knoppix and people told him "to go elsewhere" in a rather unfriendly way. Also, the german Debian IRC channel still has 'This is not a knoppix-hdinstall support chan' in its /topic.

It might be that these are corner cases and everything is fine in most cases, but if look for support you should at least clearly state that you've installed from Knoppix. That way you might save quite some time for both parties.

Michael