KNOPPIX 6.0 / ADRIANE 1.1 (original) (raw)

Microknoppix

"Microknoppix" is a complete rewrite of the KNOPPIX boot system with the following features:[Picture of LXDE destop with compiz]

  1. High compatibility with its Debian base: Aside from configuration files, nothing gets changed in Debians standard installation.
  2. Accellerated boot procedure: Independently from the usual SysV bootscripts, multiple tasks of system initialization are run in parallel, so that interactive desktops are reached very fast. The slowest factor is still udev, start time is reduced to about half compared to versions 5.x.
  3. LXDE is used as graphical environment, which is a very slim and fast desktop with extremely short starttime and low resource requirements. Because of its GTK2 base, LXDE works together nicely with screenreader Orca.
  4. Amount of installed software has been greatly reduced in this first CD-version, so that custom remasters based on CD are possible again. In general, there are much fewer dependencies for the KNOPPIX-specific components, so that even small remasters, 256MB and less, can be created (hence the "Micro" part).
  5. Network configuration is being handled by NetworkManager with nm-applet in graphics mode, and textual GUIs in textmode (compatible to Debians /etc/network/interfaces specification, but without ifup/ifdown).
  6. A persistent image for saving personal settings and additionally installed programs, KNOPPIX/knoppix-data.img, is supported on the boot device. That way, even the boot system and startup scripts can be changed in the persistent image.

ADRIANE

[Penguin with sunglasses]

A.D.R.I.A.N.E. (Audio Desktop Reference Implementation And Networking Environment) is a talking menu system, which is supposed to make work and internet access easier for computer beginners, even if they have no sight contact to the computers monitor. A graphical environment with also talking programs and arbitrary magnification using compiz-fusion, is another option.

CD / USB Versions - which files do I need?

The current public beta CD release of KNOPPIX 6.0.1 with ADRIANE 1.1 is available in different variants for download at the Knoppix-Mirrors.

file name content
KNOPPIX_versionCD-date-DE.iso KNOPPIX, CD-Version, default language german, ISOfile format
KNOPPIX_versionCD-date-EN.iso KNOPPIX, CD-Version, default language english, ISOfile format
KNOPPIX_version-ADRIANE_versionCD-Datum-DE.iso KNOPPIX, CD-Version with automatic start of ADRIANE, default language german, ISOfile format
KNOPPIX_version-ADRIANE_versionCD-Datum-EN.iso KNOPPIX, CD-Version with automatic start of ADRIANE, default language english, ISOfile format
*.iso.md5 checksum file (MD5) for md5sum for checking CD-image after download
*.iso.sha1 checksum file (SHA1) for sha1sum for checking CD-image after download
*.iso.*.asc Digital signature for verifying authenticity of checksum files and images after download

For burning a CD, only the single .iso file matching your language and version choice, is sufficient.

Additionally, several individual vendors offer readily burned and verified CDs and USB-memorysticks saent out via postal service.

Since there are so many different media capacities, there is no readymade image for booting off memorystick available for download. But it is easy to create a bootable USB-stick or flashcard from a running Knoppix system, as described in the next section.

Booting from Flash

[Picture of a SD-flashdisk]

In order to create a bootable USB-medium (memory flashdisk, SD-card, digital camera with USB connector, cellphone with microSD, ...), the program flash-knoppix can be started from a running Knoppix system. This program installs all needed Knoppix files onto the FAT-formatted flashdisk, and creates a boot record for it. Other files on the medium stay intact, since no repartitioning or formatting is done by flash-knoppix.

After having copied the system to flash, using the persistent Knoppix image (overlay feature), it is possible to also store files permanently in live mode. That way, personal settings and additionally installed programs survive a reboot.

Boot options and controls

Overview of the most important functions. A complete description and listing of shortcuts can be found in the configurations of sbl, orca and compiz-fusion.

Boot options (can be entered in the startup screen)
adriane Start ADRIANE with speech knoppix Start KNOPPIX with graphical environment knoppix/adriane acpi=off noapic nolapic pci=bios ... problem solvers, if computer doesn't start knoppix testcd Check CD for errors knoppix tohd=/dev/hda1 Copy CD content to harddisk (hda1 or sda1, 1st partition on 1st IDE/SATA harddisk) and start from there (free CD-rom drive) knoppix toram Load CD content to memory and start from there (free CD-rom drive)
ADRIANE navigation in text mode
CapsLock + space read current line CapsLock + arrow up read previous line CapsLock + arrow down read next line CapsLock + pageup read from beginning of page to current position CapsLock + pagedown read from here to end of page CapsLock + arrow left/right spell charwise
Navigation with compiz and orca in graphics mode
Super + mouse wheel Set/scale magnification Super + l Lock or release magnification area Super + m small mouse lens mouse to upper right corner window overview CapsLock + space start orca preferences Super = penguin- or "window"-key left

Micro-Remastering

Boot options like "adriane" can easily be preset by changing syslinux.cfg after having copied the CD to a bootable memorystick using "flash-knoppix":

Change the upper line

DEFAULT knoppix

to:

DEFAULT adriane

for automatically starting ADRIANE on boot. This is already default in all ADRIANE iso files.

Download

KNOPPIX 6.0.1 / ADRIANE 1.1 beta is available for download from the usual KNOPPIX mirror sites.

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