BandiPat wrote:
Listening to everyone that suggests using it certainly makes it sound as if they do Felix. It is a good diagnostic tool, not a great one, because much of the software is older and not a good test, if you plan on running a newer distro later.
It is a great diagnostic tool, because it works such a high percent of the time to prove something difficult to prove otherwise, which is whether particular hardware works or not, and without "installing" anything whatsoever, or requiring futzing with hardware/BIOS settings.
If you plan to run SuSE 9.3, then you should use the diagnostic tool SuSE provides us, SuSE Eval disc. It serves all the same purposes
Eval disc? You mean the live CD? Do you really believe that is likely to function better than the 5 or more 9.3 real installs he's already done?
Knoppix does plus more by providing newer items to test with on your
Newer? Maybe, maybe not. Certainly 9.3 is newer than Gil's old 3.4 Knoppix, but the current 3.9 Knoppix is a late May release, newer than 9.3. Knoppix releases traditionally happen approximately twice as often as SuSE releases.
Gil has really only managed to confuse his efforts thus far, that's all.
He's been spinning his wheels trying the same few things over and over and seeing consistent unsatisfactory results. That means he needs to try other things. After all those unsatisfactory SuSE 9.3 installs already, further new installation time would be more productively spent installing something other than 9.3. He need not buy some other distro to try. Fedora & Mandrake among others can be installed via FTP/HTTP right off the net just like SuSE, using a small boot.iso to jumpstart it.
Instead of flaunting the "qualities" of Knoppix on a SuSE list, time would be better spent helping Gil run down his problems.
I've already done that. I suggested comparing ripe apples to ripe apples (Knoppix 3.9 vs. SuSE 9.3) or spoiling apples to spoiling apples (Knoppix 3.4 to SuSE 9.0 or 9.1), to try to get away from the previous wheel spinning and narrow down where the behavioral difference(s) is/are between Knoppix and SuSE and thus maybe find what in 9.3 needs adjusting to his hardware that he's proven can work. Heck, if he lives somewhere close to 82W & 28N he's welcome to bring his puter here so we can put our collective efforts together live. -- "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" Matthew 6:27 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/