Quote Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman
Quote Originally Posted by jbreazeale
What distribution would you recommand that is intended for use on a HD that won't be a lot of trouble making it fit into a 2GB partition?
Asuming that you are talking about a real install and not a PMI that uses the compressed image (an assumption I make based on the other things you say), Debian, the distro that Knoppix is built on, should take no more space than Knoppix for the same applications, even less if you omit installing things that are in Knoppix but that you will never use. Let me ask this, did you try installing Debian Etch and decide that there are issues that you would rather fight with Knoppix than resolve in Debian, or are you making the choice to install Knoppix without looking at Debian?
No, I haven't tried Debian Etch. I didn't even know Debian Etch existed, so I should look up information on it.

You say, "for the same applications," while that's true I don't want to spend the time paring Debian down into the same set of applications. What's on the live-CD is good enough for me. I used /usr/sbin/knoppix-installer to install the live-CD onto the HD and confired it as a Debian install with full user login support (maybe this was a mistake). Perhaps I actually did what you suggest -- I believe I do have a Debian install.

As I said earlier, I've installed Knoppix (3.7?) and Slax (5.0.6) installed on this particular laptop before with mostly satisfying results. My first concern was getting the wireless card working (Slax worked) and then having a system that didn't hang (Knoppix didn't hang like Slax). Finally, getting the audio to work out of the box was also desirable (Knoppix live CD was working -- have yet to see if the HD install of Knoppix will work). I'm not giving you all the sordid details as I can't remember them all and it's not clear the history.

What I hoped to get was the audio & wireless detection capability of the live-CD. Apparently I'm missing something in the equation as I have to run 'sudo pump -i eth0' or somesuch to get DHCP to work off the bat. I also get the original problem, the subject of this thread (at least so I thought), which I trust is a kernel issue that'll eventually get worked out.

[I've just refreshed my memory and I see I have a 3.8GB partition with 1.7GB remaining after putting around 17MB of my own files back onto the laptop.]

Thanks for the information.