Suggestions for a Linux LiveCD which is command-line only?

[Shawn C. Powell]

On Saturday 26 January 2008 07:54, Leo Mauler wrote:
> After about 24 hours only 15GB had copied between the
> two hard drives, with 30GB to go.  

Something about that seems odd to me although I admit that when I've done 
similar operations I've only ever used "cp -av" from the command line; Never 
tried it with a GUI file manager copy.   If I remember correctly [and jump in 
here people :)] copy operations themselves don't use that much RAM as a 
buffer because of diminishing returns after the buffer gets beyond 32K/64K.

Did DMA get enabled on the drives? "hdparm /dev/hda" for example will tell 
you.

> I assume that 
> KNOPPIX's heavy memory use was slowing down the file
> transfer, and I think I need a CLI-only LiveCD.

Knoppix (at leat 5.0.1) can boot to text-only mode.  Its one of the boot 
options.  Its something like "knoppix 2".

-Shawn