On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:03:10 -0500 "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtu...@vianet.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:10:27AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I have an old machine without a working hard disk that I'd like to use > > to connect to my main machine and run X. > > > > I believe that I could boot off of knoppix, but is there something > > easier I could do with the stuff already on my main machine--maybe > > setting up an image and transmitting over the network at boot time? The > > machine has a CD drive, but I'm not sure it's working. > > > > If I can use stuff I've already downloaded, it will go faster. > > If your old box doesn't do (or can't do) network booting, then you'll > need to give it some kind of hard bootable image. The problem with > knoppix is that it uses so much ram. You could try grml (it may use > less ram, I don't know). Or Debian-live, which is incredibly customizable, although that will obviously involve work. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
