WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

-> -> What advantages stand out for installing Knoppix vs the CD version?

-> WC> Well power outages won't wipe your setup.
-> WC> Some stuff doesn't work in the ramdisk version especially the file
-> WC> updates to bring it up to the latest release.

-> -> What do you suggest as the minimum functional size hard drive?

-> WC> 10 Gig.
-> WC> Knoppix 3.3 uses over 2.5 gig.

-> That much?

 WC> For the entire install.
 WC> I didn't do the pro-install because I was afraid I'd leave out some
 WC> libraries required for my apps.

I thought that the packaging setup was supposed to deal with that issue.

-> WC> You want to set a swap file to 128 Meg if you've that much
-> WC> RAM or more.

-> WC> I'm buying 80 Gig or better.

-> I was thinking along those lines too,  still haven't gotten there yet.

 WC> 17  days :-)

I dunno when,  in my case.  Got a 10G here I haven't installed yet.  At
first I was thinking in terms of more space,  but now I think it'll be
handy for upgrading,  too.

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