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dws (341)
Thursday February 06, 2003
08:17 PM
Knoppix
Knoppix is a Debian-based Linux "distribution" that can be booted off of a CD. Out of curiousity, I downloaded and burned an iso image. It booted without any problem on my Dell Inspiron laptop. I stayed in text mode, since the laptop is shy on RAM.
There's a surprising amount of stuff there, including Perl 5.6.1 and Apache.
mkdir
mount -t vfat -o ro
gives a read-only (i.e., paranoid) view of the laptop's win98 disk. It felt kinda strange wandering around my win98 directory hierarchy from Linux. Later I'll look into how it handles networking. That might be useful in a rescue situation.
Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)"
--Larry Wall in <6909@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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