[Eug-lug] Knoppix 5.1.1

[roger]

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 14:31 -0400, Alan Crandall wrote:
> Hello all, I have been trying for the last 2 days to download Knoppix 5.1.1
> dvd iso and no matter if I try a torrent or plain iso, I get a "disk is out
> of space" message.This is on both my tower and laptop.Both have plenty of
> space ?
> Any ideas why ?

df -alh?

Do you mean you get a pop-up from Firefox (or other browser) stating
"Disk Out Of Space"?  If so, probably a quota restriction on the server,
and not you the client. :-/

> And if some kind soul has it as a dvd iso, could I get a copy ?

I'd do it, but it looks as if this is a new release of KNOPPIX?

I've pretty much am just using SystemRescueCD for my stuff as it is
built with Gentoo, and I've also found it more up-to-date with Gparted
and other partition related tools.

If I grab it today or tomorrow, I'll drop you an email if you haven't
gotten a DVD yet.


> The other thing is, in preparing for the install I want to have my ext2 set
> up and have read different things about the awpa file size.Some say twice
> the size of your ram-I have 1 gig-so that would make a 2 gig swap.Others
> say have a max of 512 megs of swap.Which is right ?


For swap, I've usually only set a swap to ~364MB as I've rarely ventured
into using swap on systems with anywhere from 200-1GB of ram.

Swap is something you just want to avoid as is really strains an o/s
usually.  At most, I've used ~100-200MB of swap, but never more unless
there was a memory run (ie. bug in the software).

But!  If you're using Suspend2 (or in kernel Suspend) and you use your
swap device to suspend to, then you'll need RAM+VIDEO_RAM for a swap
device file, becuase when teh system suspends, it takes a snapshot of
your memory & video ram and writes this snapshot to your swap device.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can probably ignore
this, but you did say you have a laptop... so you, probably do know. 

Other then this, 364MB seems to be a safe range for me for a swap as
I've never seen swap here (or rarely) use anymore then 150-200MB.  So
even 200MB would be adequate. Besides, we have tools such as gparted
that can resize partitions safely w/o destroying data.  I've safely
resized my partitions several times in the past 6 mos.

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Fri Apr 20 14:52:48 PDT 2007