I made the first try with Knoppix using the November 2003
edition and I was surprised by the excellent work done by rhe K Knopper
team.
It's the first time that an operating sysrem , other than
Windows, can use an Internet connection via a USB modem (Motorola
SB4100) without any preliminary preparation (e.g. I could not obtain
the same result with my QNX operating system).
Booting from the CD is also without problems.
I tryed in the past to install a Red Hat system and
experienced strange hard disk noises. I suppose that having an WIN-XP NTFS
fyle system as long as you have not some partition in FAT32 the hard disk is
reluctant.
I have to point out that the Knoppix CD for the first
seconds makes a slight noise and 2 times the message
pdcraid error reading
superblock appears
but immediately the knoppix welcome message appears
and all becomes ok
I downloaded also the german February 2004 edition of
Knoppix and at the beginning of the boot the same error message is followed
by a normal booting.
This time a supplementary message appears
Trying to mount /dev/fd0 with AES256 encryption "kein
passendes Gerät bzw. kein passende Adresse gefunden"
Receiving now the Debian-Knoppix chat I should like to
point out that every writer has to realize that he is addressing himself to
a multitude of individuals and shoud try to outline first a short general
presentation of his problem. If you donot your text is to be considered as
an encrypted one aimed to be understood only by the recipient.