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On 02/06/11 22:33, Tony Sumner wrote: > On Jun 02, 2011, Neil Winchurst wrote: > >> Has anyone on the list any experience of this distro at all? > > I think it forms the basis of Damn Small Linux (DSN) and I've used > that on a low-spec laptop. When it starts up you see a penguin at > the top of the page and I recall seeing the same on a Qatar Airlines > flight when the system was booting up. The Penguin on boot is a standard feature of the LILO boot loader (and probably others) and a lot of Linux distros do that, so of itself it doesn't denote much. Knoppix is a Debian derivative. It has a hard drive install option, but the unofficial Knoppix site recommends (in several places) regular Debian if you want a hard drive version of GNU/Linux. http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/HD_Install_Warning_not_to_do_it Knoppix is intended these days more as a way of mastering bootable CD images (although there are tools for that in many distro's), and it looks like Damn Small Linux do use that as a way of creating their images, but you can make any CD you like pretty easily. I haven't used it much recently, but use to use it as a recovery CD. These days I tend to stick with standard Debian install images, which have sensible recovery built in, and are more likely to be fully compatible with my installed boxes. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq