Re: knoppix and swap

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, William Immerman wrote:

> Seth--
>    Just a quick note: the later Knoppixes have a boot parameter ("cheat
> code") that starts it without activating swap: ("noswap"). Found out the
> hard way trying to boot a system with a physically failed hard drive,
> and trying to prevent any access to drive.

The LNX-BBC has swap disabled by default -- you can't even start the
service without enabling it first (if you know about the BBC runlevels,
that makes sense, if not...suffice it to say the LNX-BBC gives you your
gun, then the bullets, before allowing you to shoot your drive in the
spindle).

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