On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 01:48:53PM -0500, James Spinti wrote: >On Monday 28 April 2003 01:34 pm, Patrick McCabe wrote: >> >I would consider knoppix more of a 'demo' linux than a rescue cd. It >> >can certainly be used as a rescue cd. I think most will agree that you >> >need really _need_ kde to perform any rescue tasks. When I need a >> >rescue CD I, personally, don't wan't to wait for kde to load, from a CD >> >no less. >> >just my $0.02 >> >> Type 'knoppix 2' at the boot prompt and it boots into the command line. >> This is how I usually use it - I don't have the patience to wait for a >> full kde load. That said, its got a lot of tools for rescue tasks. It's >> amazing the amount of stuff they packed onto that cd. > >Agreed--knoppix 2 is the way to go. I just used it last week to recover >1.9 GB of e-mail off a crashed W2K machine. The VP of Sales was >sweating...Linux to the rescue. >-- I am burning another copy of that right now. Sounds like dream. -- Linux Administrator || Technology Specialist || Wifi Engineer http://autonomous.tv/~spencer/resume/ || spencer at autonomous.tv Key fingerprint = 173B 8760 E59F DBF8 6FD2 68F8 ABA2 AB08 49C7 4754 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030428/12246d9d/attachment.pgp