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

[Leo Mauler]

--- "Shawn C. Powell" <shawncp at kcnet.com> wrote:

> 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.

I was using Midnight Commander at the time, which is a
text-screen (curses) tool, hence my confusion.  I
agree completely that using a GUI tool in KNOPPIX
would have been a lot slower than the command line.

> 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.

Well, the system resources were dinky, as the PC was a
PII-600Mhz.  Perhaps the processor had something to do
with it, as KNOPPIX was maintaining that 1.9GB virtual
filesystem in the background.  Again, command line
functions don't have the GUI overhead so I think a CLI
interface would have been a lot faster.

> 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".

Hmmm, didn't realize it had a text-only mode.  I'll
have to try that out.


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