Re: knoppix question

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:48:20AM -0600, Brian Densmore wrote:

I've booted Knoppix on my laptop which only has 96MB RAM. I didn't touch any keys to do this. Now to be fair there is a swap partition on the drive and it may have seen this and used it. In fact the creators would be foolish not to look for and use it.

How foolish it is depends on what you use the disk for. If you use it as a general-purpose system recovery/rescue disk, and you're dealing with a system with some corruption or failures on the hard drive, then using an existing swap partition could be hazardous.

The lnx-bbc, in contrast, mounts partitions read-only, and only activates existing swap if directed to do so. This was a deliberate design choice.