When I would fix Windows machines for pocket change, Knoppix was one of the first tools I'd reach for. It made separating janky hardware and janky software much easier.
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#92If Klaus Knopper or his wife Adriane finds this thread I want to say thank you for all the useful tools that you included in Knoppix. I learned so much and it was greatly simplified by the ease of operation of the live boot CD with its auto-detection of hardware. I really appreciate all the hard work that y'all have put into Knoppix over the years. I downloaded the latest version less than a month ago from knopper.net so that I can muck around on a new mini-pc and show an elderly relative how easy some of this stuff really is. Still an excellent toolset. Thanks!
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#93Kinda wild that in primary/early middle school basically Knoppix and Wienux live distributions set me up for what has later become a career working with Linux/DevOps/SRE. Can't thank everyone who made Linux so accessible to people at a young age enough.
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#94When I was a kid I got obsessed with Linux, but my family only had one PC in the living room. After an attempt to set up Windows/Linux dual boot where I messed up the partition table, my parents banned me from tinkering with it. Luckily I discovered Knoppix and other live distros, which allowed me to boot into a safe environment to play around in.
I remember also hosing the bootloader somehow on my first try of Linux, luckily my personal desktop so no collatoral damage! After that I always had a CD wallet thing with copies of sysresccd and supergrubdisk and others (including I think an old knoppix cd from a linux magazine).
did you have a copy of Hiren's in there?
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#95When I was a kid I got obsessed with Linux, but my family only had one PC in the living room. After an attempt to set up Windows/Linux dual boot where I messed up the partition table, my parents banned me from tinkering with it. Luckily I discovered Knoppix and other live distros, which allowed me to boot into a safe environment to play around in.
I imagine that there are hundreds of us with very similar stories! I absolutely banjaxed our Windows partition after installing Mandrake or Suse or something on more than one occasion. I learned a lot about Linux, but probably more about the importance of backups haha.
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#96For many years I had a Knoppix Live CD and later DVD/USB in my work bag, so that could boot up Linux if needed. I also had the Knoppix remaster called Quantian for scientific computing. Quantian had this cool feature called Mosix, that made it possible to connect computers that could share processes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantian
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#97I remember using knoppix on some machine in the school computer room, to sniff everyone's logins using ettercap (pre https adoption). Good times.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same. Back then we weren't booting off USB memory sticks: CDs it was. Knoppix and memtest to troubleshoot friends and family's PCs were my go-to tools. Always had a few bootable CD roms in the car. Heck I'd even take a HDD with me and wouldn't hesitate to open other people's PC and hook my "rescue HDD". Worst memory ever troubleshooting a friend's PC was in the 386 or 486 days (didn't have Knoppix yet but was already…
The usual solution to bad controller boards was finding the same model drive and swapping boards at least temporarily to get data off.
This worked for me, once. Putting drives in the freezer has worked 3x. I miss that... when an SSD dies it's just dead
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#99Always hated the screen saver on Knoppix. Otherwise a reasonably feature-rich liveboot OS, albeit not updated recently.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same. Back then we weren't booting off USB memory sticks: CDs it was. Knoppix and memtest to troubleshoot friends and family's PCs were my go-to tools. Always had a few bootable CD roms in the car. Heck I'd even take a HDD with me and wouldn't hesitate to open other people's PC and hook my "rescue HDD". Worst memory ever troubleshooting a friend's PC was in the 386 or 486 days (didn't have Knoppix yet but was already…
The usual solution to bad controller boards was finding the same model drive and swapping boards at least temporarily to get data off.
I tried this with 2 drives in my life. 0/2 success rate.