Knoppix running from RAM: SUCCESS!! kind of...

**Alextreme** · 02-08-2003, 12:11 AM

Well, doing what you are now is one of the ways to help!

I really really really (yes, really

) appreciate feedback, critique or plain flaming. What do you think can get better? What would you use a liveCD (or any distro, for that matter) for? What just plain sucks? What did you have trouble with?

It's a new (and pre-mature, in this case) project, like most remastered versions here, but i think the users of a distro should turn the distro into what they want (or are content with). If i wanted a liveCD for myself i'd probably pop up one huge emacs window, but this isn't a liveCD for just myself. Even if you can't code or don't want to dive into the ugly details you can seriously help out any project: by pointing out the weakest points...

Oh, and if you want to flame, do it on the wiki at morphix.org. I like flaming back, but i don't think that the rest would appreciate it :P

**penguin** · 02-08-2003, 09:40 PM

Nice work, looking forward to the final result!
It would be great if this RAM option could be added to the Knoppix CD...

**probono** · 02-08-2003, 11:43 PM

A KDE 3.1 version would be nice, that allows me to have my own /etc and /home as separate modules!

**Alextreme** · 02-10-2003, 12:52 AM

Hmm, a KDE-based module could be easily made, i'll see if i can get some testmodules up next week (i thought people already had enough KDE-versions of KNOPPIX, then again it wouldnt be much effort)

modules that load /etc and /home? well, could be a good idea, i'll see if i can get some scripts done that easily create minimodules. Should these be seperate modules, or a combined /etc+/home module? It's doable, placing it on the todo-list

**kbreen** · 02-18-2003, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by dvessey

It copies itself, and it boots up fine.. just no X

I think it's probably because I removed one of the knoppix packages while on my mission to hack the size down. It also freezes up at some points.. but that's probably becuase it's only got about 56MB of ram to work with cause the other 200 are being taken up by the image

(another reason why i'd really like to get my hands on that 48MB one with X...

Oh yeah.. alex, if you read this, does the morphix base package have X in it? cause I had started to download it, but then quit..

I've still got a bit of work to do on it, since right now the RAMSIZE is hardcoded in(got fed up statically compiling programs.. I think I'll see if I can make it a command line option).

Once I get something nice working, I'll be sure to post it up though!

Is there a download of your RAM Knoppix version?
I would like to use a distribution like this.
Or perhaps you could details on howto build such a distribution.

Any info appreciated.