Re: Touring the EU with Knoppix sans laptop
Some cafes will allow you to boot from CD, others won't. At a bet, you'll probably have more luck with the smaller cafes that are less likely to have a professional admin.
If you have a problem booting, try a couple of different machine (they may have missed one) and/or ask for help. Let them know what you're doing and why They might be willing to give you a break.
Also: bring a couple of spare CDs/DVDs with you. Two reasons:
1) in case your prime gets damaged, and
2) so you have a couple to give away ( :-} )
Although not everybody is going to have a DVD reader, it's nice to have the extra software at places that do.
If you take a small USB hard drive, you'll have the space to put a full DVD. You can then boot from a minimal CD and still have all the software you can think of. You can set the CD to automatically boot from the USB drive (adding 'fromhd=/dev/sda1' to /boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg)
(You can do similar work with a 1-2GB drive and a CD image. 5.0 should work on a 4GB stick. I'm not sure about 5.1.1, but 5.2 is noticeably over 4GB)
The advantage to doing things that way is that you then have normal use of the CD/DVD player, and it's generally a lot faster.
I also add 'xdepth=24', to isolinux.cfg since it's hard to find a machine, these days, that doesn't have 24bit color capability.
On 4/29/07,
Robert Citek <robert.citek@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
I have the good fortune of going to Europe this late Spring. On past
trips, I have taken my laptop with me. But this time, I was thinking of
leaving the laptop behind and traveling only with a Knoppix CD and a USB
stick. Instead of looking for wifi connections, I was going to visit
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