[Sheflug] Bakewell + KNOPPIX

["J.White" <Jan.White [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 05 March 2003 20:17, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
>
> The other one is that Shrida had a chat with me yesterday.  He's the
> fella who runs Country Bookshop out in Bakewell.  What used to be
> Hassop station...    http://www.countrybookshop.co.uk
>
> Most of it runs on Linux.
>
> Shrida has explained to me that if we want to have a meeting out at
> Bakewell then we can use his shop.  It's a nice place complete with a
> cafe which does some nice food.  If this happens then I'll probably
> use the 240 Bakewell bus to get there.   I'm not sure what kind of
> response we might get to this.  That's why I haven't made it
> definite.   But, if people say that they *definitely* want this I'll
> organise it and fix a date.
>
> Comments invited.  Don't say yes and then not turn up.

Hi Richard & all,

		MEETING
		---------------
Sounds great, from where I live (Dore) Bakewell is probably easier 
to get to than SHU (driving in Shef centre is ghastly).

Can't say for sure I could come until know date/time but would try.
Could offer lift to anyone in my area.

		KNOPPIX
		--------------
I know this thread is long past but I can't resist singing the praises 
of the wonderful KNOPPIX.  It runs on everything I've tried it on and 
recognizes hardware (better than RedHat).  All straight off the 
demo CD, no need to repartition your HD or load anything.  

You can edit all the standard config files (/etc/fstab,passwd,etc.)
so you can mount all your remote NFS disks and get instant 
access to all your data, software,network printers, user setup...
And then make a floppy to use to load your  customizations so 
everything's instantly there next time (boot: knoppix floppyconfig).  
(I know I should make my own image onto CD to avoid the floppy 
bit, but it's so easy already.)

Dead useful for trouble shooting Windoze boxes too, one of our 
PC's wouldn't boot as it's system partition was knackered, but 
good old Knoppix allowed me to mount the data partition and copy 
the contents over the net onto one of the unix disks.

Only caveat is that it's loading itself into RAM so it's not so hot on 
our really old PC's with only 32 mb (yup, we still use some  - my 
motto is never throw anything away until it's actually bust.)

Cheers,   Jan

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