[debian-knoppix] Booting Knoppix on oldder hardware?
Well I must say I continue to enjoy Knoppix, and find it useful!
One thing I've noticed though since I've been using it both to access the
compute cycles on new machines that I can use, but cannot reconfigure, and on
older machines to either use them as a terminal, or for data recover, it that
it will not boot on older machines.
>From what I can gather the kernel has been built for 686, not 586, so I get
something about 'Pentium+ tcs instruction required' then a kernel fault.
Would it be possible to supply supplying a second kernel for older machines
on the CD? I've had good luck running 'lnx-bbc' on the same machines, but
I've not tried replacing the kernel since I didn't want to build a custom CD.
Of course I'm planning to run without X since the machines I'm recovering
don't have the resources (typically P1 100-233 with 32-64mb), but are
certainly enough to run the basics and even things like emacs etc.
Thanks for your help, and a great product Klaus.
/bill
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