--- Brian Densmore DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: Leo Mauler

--- lerninlinux@comcast.net wrote:

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I have taken old parts and assembled a test system, I would like to know if Knoppix will boot into 256 mb of memory only. No hard drive, no floppy. I am wanting to use it as a test station for hard drives, (checking if they are bad and fdisking and such).

The short answer is "yes". The stated minimum for the GUI is 80MB, 128MB for using any Office applications (such as OpenOffice). I think 64MB allows you to boot into text mode. 256MB is ample RAM for running KNOPPIX.

64 MB needed for text only mode Linux!? That is an insane number! Text only Linux should be able to run in 4MB, or even 1 MB. Or hey how about in 64KB? Or <shudder> even 16KB?

I looked up the actual figure KNOPPIX states for "text mode". The number they claim is 20MB, which is not too bad a requirement for text mode.

Nobody will ever need more than 1MB of RAM...

Shades of Bill Gates there... :(

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