[Gnumed-devel] Re: Knoppix Live CD

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 01:29:36PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> There are two links provided on the wiki but the second is broken, 
> shall I remove it (I tried ftp instead of http but was told I didn't 
> have permission to open the page).
yes

>       ftp://pi24.theoinf.tu-ilmenau.de/pub/medica.iso
>       http://bosko.orgatech.de/medica.iso
> 
> Also what version GNUmed is the above Knoppix, is it version 0.1?
pre-0.1, v-something

> Can it be used by people running either either Windows or Linux 
> *provided* their machine uses an Intel-compatible processor? And can 
> it be *any* intel-compatible processor?
yes, the machine should not matter as long as it can boot a Knoppix CD

> I have not bothered to download the whole ISO file... will it have 
> adequate instructions? Has anyone tried it?
It has been tried. The instructions amount to "burn this
file to a CD-ROM and boot from it".

> Right now, the links that are provided on the wiki link directly to 
> the image which begins downloading, so I am thinking it is better to 
> provide at least a minimum of information what it means for a user to 
> download a Knoppix CD and what they will need to do, once they are 
> done for example burning it to a CD with whatever is a utility that 
> comes with Windows or other recommended utility.
Sounds right to me.

> Also when rebooting, 
> how to force the computer to boot from CD if it will not happen 
> automatically.
Enter the BIOS setup and set the boot device appropriately.

Karsten
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