so, let me get this straight...
Knopix is like Try it and see linux?
You just run it off the CD, right? no instalation required?
No hardware taking up?

Let me know if there is one like this if knoppix is not.

titanium_geek

nope you got it that's right.

another is demo linux (demolinux.org)

Yes, it wont touch your system.

But, it will automatically use any linux swap partitions that are on the system.


and it easily installs to the harddrive to make a sweet Debain unstable distro.

Hmm, Knoppix. I've heard about it, but do not know much about it.
From the original thread, it sounds like the SUSE-Eval CD that you can d/l and burn.

Thats it for Knoppix? Im assuming you can actually install it on your HD?

What can someone tell me about Knoppix? What's good/bad? How does it compare to Mandrake or Slack?

Tarballed

Yes, you can install to your hd. knx-hdinstall, think that is the command.

Once you make a cd out of the ISO image plop it in your drive and turn on your computer. Your computer must be set to boot from cdrom before this. You can do this in your bios.

Once your comp starts up, it'll bring you to a boot prompt. Type:
knoppix 2

This will take you into runlevel 2, after it boots up you'll be sitting at a command prompt. This is where you will type: knx-hdinstall
And the install will start.

As far as what knoppix has...pretty much everything you can think of. You can read what packages are included at their website. http://www.knoppix.org/

My favorite live-cd is knoppix but there are many more:

http://www.distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=cd

I've installed knoppix and it goes smoothly. One thing with installing a live iso is that it doesn't come with any screensavers so you might to add some. Otherwise the hardware recognition was great for me.

Running linux live off the CD as a demo is possible. There are a dozen of them but my favourites are:

SuSE Linux Live-Eval CD. A very good linux demo CD and can be used as a rescue disk. Although it neds a hard disk for temporary files and memory swap it cannot be installed to run off the hard drive.

Gentoo Linux Live CD + UT2003 Demo. Other linux live CD with games (UT 2003 or America's Army demo) and also available for PPC.

Knoppix. Run off CD linux based on Debian as a demo or a rescue disk without a need of a harddrive. This CD can also be installed on the harddrive to run it from there. I like this one too ;-)

Morphix is based on Knoppix but I dont have any experience with it just like many others: DemoLinux, Freeduc, FreeLoader, SuperRescue, etc.

I don't know if there any Slackware live linux CD.


Have fun :-)

Morphix is pretty nice, you might want to check them out too.

What they are doing, is taking the Knoppix cd, and dividing it up. One for KDE, one for GNOME, one for games, one for "light" programs (I love this one), etc.

So basically, you get just what you want, but Knoppix is a good one size fits all disc.

Knoppix is king.
Slackware has had a "Live CD" for a while, and there are other run from CD options.
None are as "slick" as Knoppix for ease of hardware detection, although I have seen it fail to boot on a PC.

So Knoppix has a GUI right?

I'm trying to convince my sister to get Linux.

titanium_geek

Yeh, once you boot from it it will automaticly do hardware detection and boot you right into a gui.

Not to sound to critical here, but I tried out the knoppix CD.
It was pretty good, althought I prefer Slackware. Slack, for me, has much more to offer.

Just out of curiosity, why do most people like about knoppix?
For instance, slack you have complete control and pkg management, plus it is elegant and fast.

I'd just like to here comments about what they really like or dislike about knoppix.

Are you talking about slackware live iso? I like knoppix because it autoconfigures everything. Plus if someone goes "what linux?" I can get a copy of knoppix, pop it in a drive, and say "this is linux". Besides demonstration purposes I use it a lot for a backup. Say I typed a report that I need but I screwed up lilo so I can't get to linux right this second I can boot from knoppix. Once booted knoppix recognizes other partition so I can go onto a partion and print out whatever I need. And lastly, if you have an old computer you want to put seti@home on but have no harddrive knoppix comes in handy

So, there is a Slackware live linux CD.

Please give me the link to download it, please :-)

I could find it on www.slackware.com no?

It's here ;-)
http://www.slackware-live.org/

Have fun :-)