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. 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.
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".
-Shawn