[ale] Knoppix

[Christopher Fowler]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:27:57PM -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I just came back from HL Computer, where I booted three of the four
> displayed laptops with a boot CD derived from Knoppix (the fourth
> wouldn't boot to CD right off, so I declined to mess with it further. 
> One, the HP, seems to have had its sound detected and configured
> properly, but its scroll pad next to the pointer pad wasn't working.  
> 
> The scroll pad seems like an uber-nice feature - anyone know who else
> besides HP has them and if they can be made to work?

I love my HP.  The scroll works fine for me.  I'm using RH9

> 
> - Jeff
> 
> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 11:56, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > Interesting point.  I took a Knoppix cd home and booted all my systems 
> > with it.  Only one didn't boot.  Funny, I installed Debian on it just 
> > the other day.  8)  It's my wife's machine and is a homebrew system with 
> > a MB with sis chips on it.  All on one kind of board that I was 
> > surprised Linux was able to support, but it does, including video and 
> > network and sound.
> > 
> > Jim.
> > 
> > Michael Golden wrote:
> > 
> > >>That is a GREAT idea!! If the stores floor model will run KNOPPIX, it'll
> > >>run any thing Linux you can throw at it.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > It is important to note that the opposite is not necessarily true
> > > though. Just because Knoppix will not run on a machine does NOT
> > > necessarily mean that other distributions of linux will not either.
> > > Knoppix is a good general indicator though. I have a Dell Inspiron 5150
> > > laptop that I bought recently that the Knoppix CD simply will not boot
> > > on however I was able to boot and install gentoo and have everything I
> > > care about work. (except some glitches with gentoo's kernel and acpi)
> > > (Also, I did research the machine first and opted out of their builtin
> > > wireless and bought my own card so that I'd have that supported)
> > > 
> > > 
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