Quote Originally Posted by hugeness
Hello, just got a copy of the Knoppix CD up and running on an old machine with 144Mb memory (using an old 120Mb hdd as swap). I thought I'd be able to use open office to do some data processing, but all I'm getting is an old style command prompt. Should i be booting it a different way or am I unable to do this? sorry - I have spent several hours looking on the forum and if the answers there I cannot find it.
Are you really using the hdd for swap ? (In other words did you make a swap partition or swapfile on it ?) :-/

If you really have that much memory+swap you should be able to boot into graphical mode.


I have run OpenOffice on a machine with just 64 MB RAM + about 200 MB swap.
Very,very slow yes, but I was able to process the M$ document some inconsiderate
co-worker sent me.