Guest LeeU Posted December 1, 2005 Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 I have a Toshiba 7020CT Portege. I have tried MandrakeMove on it and it seems to work fine. Is this how Mandriva 10.1 would work in it? In other words, if the MandrakeMove works fine will a general installation work the same? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 Yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 Any Live CD, be it Mandrake/Mandriva Move, Knoppix Live, etc, etc, will give a good indication as to whether Linux will be OK on your machine. It's worth checking ALL your devices to make sure they are recognised, before progressing with a full installation of said OS, be it Mandriva or another distro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DrF Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 Ah. Mandrake Move did not work on my machine when I tried to run it and I have the same Green Screen of Death now that I have installed it! Live and learn :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 If you have a fast link, try downloading the Knoppix Live CD. I think the last version they did for CD was 3.9. After that, they became DVD based, so larger iso image to download and burn :P Link here to knoppix on distrowatch: http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribut...th=all&year=all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 If you have a fast link, try downloading the Knoppix Live CD. I think the last version they did for CD was 3.9. After that, they became DVD based, so larger iso image to download and burn :P They also have a CD-version of the 4.0.2-version. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LeeU Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 (edited) Thanks! That good news. There was only really one thing I couldn't get working correctly, (a network printer) but I just need to delve into it a little farther or just hook to the printer up directly. BTW, what is "Knoppix Live"? Thanks again! Lee Edited December 2, 2005 by LeeU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavaeolus Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 It's a Live-CD like Mandrake Move, but it is Debian-based It's really great for system-recovery, imaging your harddisk, testing if your newly accquired computer is linux-capable... and just for having fun with it Knoppix-Homepage: http://knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 The best general purpose liveCD is Slax (its customization according to your tastes is really braindead as well as working perfectly), while for harddisk installation (and especially on laptops) Kanotix is very hard to be beaten. Knoppix is great as a recovery CD, but not terribly good for HD installation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcuraRBKG6 Posted December 26, 2005 Report Share Posted December 26, 2005 You could also try Damn Small Linux. It's disgusting small and pretty damn useful. You could also get a Business Card CD and put it there, so you could always have it with you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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