Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Albrecht Mehl <mehl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Mr. Roloff,

thank you very much for your reply which shows a way to achieve the
disered result even though it is not Suse. As not much of an
Linux-expert, I have additional questions.

Eberhard Roloff schrieb:
> Very easy, but unfortunately not suse related.
>
> 1. Download a knoppix CD or, if you prefer, one of it'xs many deriatives.
>
> 2. Boot it

When inserting the Knoppix-CD into the drive and then booting the
computer is already running, so will be the hd. So how to turn off the
already running hd?

Reading the CD each time seems to be cumbersome. Would it be possible to
start the computer with its hd, start from there Knoppix, and then to
turn off the hd?

> 3. at the boot prompt, insert:
> "knoppix dma toram" and whatever additional parameters you will need or
> like.
>
> This will copy the entire knoppix CD into your RAM (Provided you have
> about 1GB, I think).
>
> After this the whole system is both
> -lightning fast
> and
> -very quiet.
> And surely you can still save all your configuration and work results to
> your harddisk

Of course I would like to save e.g. the emails received to the hd. Can
this be done when using Knoppix?

 or, better,  you save soundlessly to an usb stick.
> Btw, if you like something as soundless, but much smaller and even
> quicker, DSL (damnsmalllinux) does essentially the same (with "toram").
> With DSL, you will achieve the same mode of quiet and/or diskless
> operation from 128 MB of RAM onwards.

I understand that DSL will have to be installed in my computer before
I can use it. So the problem of how to switch off the hd is there, again.


> I use both of them regularly. Essentialy anytime when I am away from a
> diskless Terminalserver Client but still in a mood to have a speedy
> computer that operates quietly....
>
> Kind regards
> Eberhard

Thank you very much

A. Mehl
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Albrecht Mehl
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D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany |sehenswert - Relativist. Effekte
Tel. (+49 06151) 37 39 92  |www.tempolimit-lichtgeschwindigkeit.de


-- 
Albrecht Mehl
Schorlemmerstr. 33
D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany |sehenswert - Relativist. Effekte
Tel. (+49 06151) 37 39 92  |www.tempolimit-lichtgeschwindigkeit.de
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