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Am Dienstag, 6. September 2005 17:58 schrieb Uriel_Carrasquilla@ncci.com:
meister@netz00.co m To: opensuse@opensuse.org cc: 09/06/2005 08:40 Subject: Re: [opensuse] 1 CD install ready to test AM Please respond to opensuse
Hi Uriel, funny header...
Am Dienstag, 6. September 2005 12:36 schrieb Shriramana Sharma:
True. Single CD still has lots of attraction. Which is why I am downloading Knoppix right now for my travels. If I get a SuSE carry-with-you CD I will certainly have chosen that...
#what about SuSE-Live-CD ?
#-- mdc
I have used both and Knoppix has some advantages: 1) if required, you can install it on your Hard-drive.
Correct me, but as I remember there was also an option to install SuSE-Live-CD on the HD.
I run both Knoppix and Win/XP in my machine. When virus, disk, registry or other problems crop up, I fire up Knoppix on the machine and bingo. I don't even have to carry my CD.
as far as I know, the MS bootloader isn't able to boot an image. So you still have to boot from CD, even if you supply a linux bootsector in a file unless you find a way to make grub or lilo booting a disk image. Even Knoppix can not boot an image, they boot an initrd and in this they mount their image via cloop. But if you use another bootloader like grub either, it doesn't matter if you boot SuSE or Knoppix.
2) Knoppix has a bunch of very neat tools for trouble shooting. I don't leave home without it to fix my SuSE systems when they run into trouble.
I think, maintaining a SuSE system that went into trouble works better if you use the SuSE installation CDs to boot and repair.
3)SuSE-Live-CD is mostly a marketing CD, not really well thought out for the purpose of such tools as Knoppix is. Mind you, it is a good thing to have when you want to show someone what their machine would look like if SuSE was installed.
I agree. A lot of usefull tools are missing on the Live-CD.
I am a believer that a 1_CD_Desktop from the SUPER initiative would go a long way.
Maybe. Earlier in this thread they discuss whether to include OpenOffice. If this is the way, they want to go, I think it will indeed be only a desktop and no system rescue/maintaince disk.
4) By the way, I am a SuSE bigot and use it all over the place including our Mainframe. Knoppix is necessity.
Hmm, SUSE has some big advantages that's right (have you ever tried to inject some pice of code in Herbert Xu's mkinitrd scripts in a Debian distro?) Knoppix is the right tool, if you have a pc runnning only windows, and you want to do some kind of network diagnosis, but not on a pc running SuSE. -- mdc