On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 15:56 -0700, Alan Crandall wrote: > sorry I forgot to mention the downloading was via Windows
eh. > >Do you mean you get a pop-up from Firefox (or other browser) stating > >"Disk Out Of Space"? If so, probably a quota restriction on the server, > >and not you the client. :-/ > > yes Firefox told me that.Called Comcast and they said no,it's not on there end lol. Wasn't going to say much until I heard this. You mean you were actually expecting an employee of Comcast to state, "Oh yea.. we're blocking it because it's >5GB, and KNOPPIX is no big deal compared to the other distros?" ....lol, i just had to say this. :-) Guess we all have to learn sometime. I'll admit, It made took me several years to learn about the NDA ... especially with the Microsoft Beta program and using a linux email client to post Windows bugs. (... actually, i knew what i was doing, using a linux email client at the time was just more stable then using the beta software.) I think most mirrors block the DVD image because it is a 5GB download. > > > > And if some kind soul has it as a dvd iso, could I get a copy ? > > > >I'd do it, but it looks as if this is a new release of KNOPPIX? > > 2 months old IIRC.Suppose to be a new verion out later this month but > if I get 5.1.1 will just upgrade > > >If I grab it today or tomorrow, I'll drop you an email if you haven't > >gotten a DVD yet. > > thanks ! I didn't grab it. It looks only available through Bittorrent and not the web. > > > The other thing is, in preparing for the install I want to have my ext2 > > > set > > > up and have read different things about the awpa file size.Some say twice > > > the size of your ram-I have 1 gig-so that would make a 2 gig swap.Others > > > say have a max of 512 megs of swap.Which is right ? > > > > > >For swap, I've usually only set a swap to ~364MB as I've rarely ventured > >into using swap on systems with anywhere from 200-1GB of ram. > ok, guess I will set to 512 megs and be safe Extreme over-kill. The only time I ventured into using swap on a box with 512MB of ram, was 20 tabs of firefox, an email client, chat client, ... etc. but even then it would stay < 128MB of swap usage. Even then, I would just restart FireFox because of the slow memory cycles. The reason I set my swap partitions to 384MB, it was twice as much as I would ever need, and usually the only time I would venture >100MB of swap usuage was on memory runs. These are really unlikely unless you're a developer these days (or running windows apps ;-). Some may have other opinions. Guess if you have a box with <300MB of ram, you might want >384MB swap. Or, if you're using Suspend2 on a 1GB RAM box. <shrugs> > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Sat Apr 21 03:24:57 PDT 2007 _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
