Quote Originally Posted by garyng
KNOPPIX on single board PC ? Seems to be wrong choice for me. Those things usually have fixed hardware spec with limited resources. You usually want to maximize them by specially catered kernel + rootfs for specific usage(usually use uClibc + busybox instead of glibc). KNOPPIX is just not designed for that purpose.

Now, if you want to do pxe boot for pretty old PC then using NFS root, KNOPPIX may be the right choice.

The strength of KNOPPIX is mainly is hardware detection(though other distro is catching up fast, including the next debian stable aka sarge) which you don't need for special purpose PC and its live CD feature which you also don't need as single board PC usually don't have it.
I used the search, and finally found back to this thread because the manager moved it to this folder. Sorry for placing it in the wrong folder the first time. Had no idea where is this subject suppose to go.

Not sure if what I called a Singleboard PC is misunderstood here.

I am not refering to the industrial PC of 3.5" or 5.25" form factors, I refer to consumer mini-ATX and NSX. e.g. this one:

http://www.matsonic.com/new/productsdata/ms8188e.htm

I called this a single board because we use them as it is, in single board only, and no add-on cards on them necessary. The board got LAN, sound, AGP Video, USB, etc. Some times they had AMD Duron soldered to the board without socket and shipped tested. I only add DDR RAM & it boots up on thumbdrive USB, CDROM, LAN, IDE etc.

All versions of Knoppix from 3.3 to 3.6 had been tested to boot up correctly via CDROM on these boards. The next goal is to have them boot up on LAN, via BOOTP+DHCP or PXE. This way we can get very simple LAN nodes with no HDD/CDROM/Floppy, the image compressed in Knoppix has everything we needed. And it plug & play is very strong.

If successful in LAN booting Knoppix, we can have diskless LAN completely without MS Windows. Then we can generally forget about virus! The diskless LAN nodes are very generic and any user can use any node to access to their own things.

Currently SPYware & virus pleage many number of MS PCs, causing a hard job to keep them maintained.

I have no doubt that Knoppix will boot up on these boards, because I use it all the time with these boards. Problem is where to get info on LAN booting. I remember I saw this subject on this forum last year.

Any one here did such thing as booting Knopix over ethernet? Pse share some info!

Thanks!