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Knoppix live DVD appears to work or I wouldn't be typing this.

It was a 3G download which I did using ftp via Filezilla as a bittorrent download would have taken something like two days. Even with ftp it took seven hours.

Blew it with nero straight from the iso file using my new dvd writer, rebooted and it Just Worked: nice.

I tried the tux racer game but it ran at about 1 fps. This pc has video integrated into the motherboard and is pretty awful in lunix, I haven't investigated but it doesn't appear to use any 3d acceleration. Screensavers in ubuntu are poor. I have a spare AGP slot and I might even be able to find an old AGP card to go in it. Something else for the todo list.

Booting from the Knoppix DVD I suddenly realise why read speed is more important than write speed. Slow on the uptake or what?