MiniKnoppix 2.0 - Almost Perfect, But...

[HateSpitLove]

I am looking to use a Mini 200MB disk livecd for use when I am away from home and general purpose internet apps like email and net browsing. I have spent most of the day downloading various "mini" versions of Knoppix and am quite pleased with MiniKnoppix 2.0 with the exception that it does not include KMail.

I have tried Slax, which the author says kmail is included on the CD but can't be found; a promising option would have been the Linux Magazine distro but there is nothing but a FAQ available on their site and no download to be found anywhere on the net; Damn Small, Flonix, Morphix Combined Lite GUI, MiniCD and a few others. So far, other than a few of the distros having issues booting correctly none include the combination of KDE, KMail, and Konqueror.

Are there ANY distros that include this combination of software under 200MBs?

I am not a programmer, am a linux newbie, and do not yet grasp the concept of making customizations and remastering.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[monkymind]

I am looking to use a Mini 200MB disk livecd for use when I am away from home and general purpose internet apps like email and net browsing. I have spent most of the day downloading various "mini" versions of Knoppix and am quite pleased with MiniKnoppix 2.0 with the exception that it does not include KMail.

I have tried Slax, which the author says kmail is included on the CD but can't be found;

Are there ANY distros that include this combination of software under 200MBs?
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Try the previous version of Slax, it has kmail etc :-
http://files.linuxforum.com/d1/live-distros/slackware-live/slackware-live-2.9.0.22.iso

regards
rob

[HateSpitLove]

Thanx! I'll check it out.

[gyro]

try " damn small linux" its 50 meg and runs fast from : damnsmalllinux.org

[arkaine23]

Kurumin is around 200mb and has KDE so it would probably have kmail. Language cheatcodes entered at boot-time might let you run it in English. Or maybe someone has made an English-only version of it...

[HateSpitLove]

I did try Damn Small but it does not have both a KDE and KMail interface (either that or it had incompatibilities with my system--can't remember which now). Unfortunately Kurumin is Brazilian and the interface is entirely in Portugese, although from what I could tell, Kurumin had these features.

I checked out the older version of Slax and it works perfectly, with the addition of a multiprotocol instant messenger client. Thanks to all for the advice.

[midwestdiscuss]

To the list;
There was a article in linux journal about this topic. It was called the Ultimate but small linux box.
I think it was the Sept. 2002 issue.

let me know

thanks again

midwestdiscuss@hotmail.com

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[midwestdiscuss]

To the list;
There was a article in linux journal about this topic. It was called the Ultimate but small linux box.
I think it was the Sept. 2002 issue.

let me know

thanks again

midwestdiscuss@hotmail.com

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[HateSpitLove]

Not sure what you mean...was there a title to your reply that provided necessary info?

[HateSpitLove]

"Language cheatcodes entered at boot-time might let you run it in English."

Eerk! I missed this part. I'll check it out.

Update: Didn't work.

[AdmiralCrom]

Being a newbie on Linux also, I have been tring the same, looking for a small 210mb CD size system based on knoppix that is stripped to have networking support for the internet, mailer is not important since I use web based email, maybe some apps, mplayer, Open Office, docs on linux. but for the browser it needs to support java and flash. This all on a 210mb CD. Most I have downloaded and burned on CDRW are for rescue type CDs.

If anyone would make a CD like this they would have alot of people interested in it.

Shoot, I would even host the site for them, or at least mirror the ISO files!

:) AdmiralCrom

[theonlyone]

This is exactly what I am doing except I am not using kde I am using XPde

http://www.xpde.com/

Have Fun :)