Knoppix on dvd

[mjd]

This is going in the other direction of most people but I wanted to try it I haven't added much to it yet just distcc, blender and wings3d.

I burnt the image onto a dvd-rw and booted it on a laptop and everything works fine, now to start adding some big things like my 2 gig Unreal Tournament folder and see what the speed is like.

Anybody else try Knoppix on dvd?

Martin

[zzyzx]

Sounds like a great idea!!! There are alot of big stuff, flightgear map of the world....

That would be a great iso to put somewhere.

Bill

[A. Jorge Garcia]

I suggested this to Klauss several months ago and he said it would run too slow!

Regards,

[mjd]

I will keep adding to it and see what the speed is like so far its okay just a lag as the disk spins up.

I want to put some games like Unreal Tournament Demo but I would need nvidia acceleration and doing a search it doesn't look like its being done.

Any other suggestions for adding to it, big programs that won't fit on a cdrom.

Martin

[georgestubbs]

I saw your post about Knoppix on DVD and REALLY want to get a clue how you did it. I have the small (80mm) 1.45Gb disks in my drawer and want to be able to get Knoppix onto one of them. I know it won't be as easy as burning a CD, but I am able to burn regular DVD's in WinXP. Any ideas for me?

[jtally]

Blender! yea baby

[mjd]

I created the image using the remastering how-to then I burned the image using dvd-decrypter under xp.

Dvd-decrypter is a great free program that will work when Nero won't to the job.

My later attemps using a larger compressed file system failed, I have to do some more testing to see if something got corrupted or if there is a size limit on the compressed file system.

I wonder if its possible to have more than one compressed file system on a disk and mount them seperately.

Martin

[ktheking]

The bigger the image will get indeed,the slower it will get.
Isn't it possible to create then multiple img files and mount them seperately to accelerate it ?
I think by wisely deviding them (ex. each big game an img file) wouldn't it
accelerate things a little ?
Nevertheless using DVD's I think wouldn't demand a considerable amount of memory (read ramdisk ) extra to load the game.
In case of that extra memory maybe create more then 1 ramdisk ? A part for the system and a part for large gamefiles ?
Or is there maybe a trick on creating extra buffermemory for the DVD player ?
I think we'll have to wait for the new ATA standard.
Greetings,

[georgestubbs]

It works! I have my Knoppix 3.2 on a 1.45Gb 8cm mini DVD. I couldn't get the DVD-RAM to work with DVD-Decryptor though. Is there a problem with DVD-RAM and DVD-Decryptor. I checked their site and there doesn't seem to be any info about it.

[mjd]

Cool, I don't know about dvd-ram I have been using dvd-rw's to play with this and they work fine.

Next I want to get the nvidia drivers working so I can try some games on it.

Martin