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Downloading this now based on all the positive reviews here. How cool that a fully functional OS loads from a CD. I'll have to joke some co-workers over the holiday weekend.😉
 
After much difficulty I got it burnt to a CD but would not burn without doing some kind of close the CD or something like that.
First thing it will not boot. I cannot see the contents of the CD even though I know it is on there. Is this because I am using windows to try and look at the contents of the CD? I appear to be the only one that cannot make it work. The download is I believe 695 MB but my CD's ore only 650MB
I am using Nero (the latest version) amd a Lite On 32x12x40 and burning at 17x. Sure hope I dont have to download it again. Any advice?
Couple of other things when looking at the CD contents all I see is easy cd creator image file. Size is 714,544 so it must be all on there.
Bleep
 
With what browser or ftp client are you downloading it? When using Mozilla it downloads as an .iso.exe and requires selecting "burn image" in Nero. CDRWin also handles the images nicely and the trial download is free from goldenhawk.com.
 
It works! I am posting from this program now.

Everything works just fine. My scroll mouse works, I can access my NFTS formatted hard drives ... wow.

Going to play around a little now. 🙂
 
monckywrench:

I am using IE5. If I have to use some particular browser or any special kind of client it is a pity. This is what windows does! forces you to use stuff you dont even want on the machine. As far as Nero goes, I have never found anything it would not burn or copy.
Bleep
 
I just found out that knoppix doesn't like SCSI drives 🙁
see my system rig below (midas)

it has the aic7xxx.o module needed but I think it needs the sr_mod and sd_mod modules also.

I was trying it because I am reinstalling gentoo this weekend and it doesn't want to boot from cd
 
bleep,
Try opening Nero, select "burn image" from the file menu, and select the .iso ya downloaded. Unless Nero barfs with an "unexpected file format" message it should be fine.
 
Originally posted by: monckywrench
bleep,
Try opening Nero, select "burn image" from the file menu, and select the .iso ya downloaded. Unless Nero barfs with an "unexpected file format" message it should be fine.
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Yeah, that worked for me too. Never burned an ISO with Nero before and I did not have CloneCD on my system.
 
Originally posted by: AnMig
can anyone tell me how to enable my modem on this knoppix? or point me in the right direction.

at setup, when I query my modem it can not find it, I thought it would recognize all of my hardware since it recognized my 8500, santa cruz, even my wintv card.

its a generic software modem conexant chipset, this is all I need to be able to browse the internet.

Thanks

P.S. is there a ultra newbie site for linux? I dont mind being talked down to.
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Either get a real moddem, or check linuxnewbie.org, linuxdoc.org, or linmodems.org (something like that).
 
What an awesome idea...

I just checked out linux for the first time. I was very impressed!

All of my hardware was automagically configured, and I even had access to all my NTFS volumes - from a CD boot! Amazing!

Thanks for the link Good_Guy!

 
Dasm, it won't fit on a 74minute CD-RW 🙁

That's the only CD i got around here 🙁

Anyone know of a way of cutting it down?

Confused
 
Confused:
Knoppix v2.2 .iso is a little smaller than 3.0, and Dynebolic (fewer features, cool Blackbox window manager) is about 300 megs.
[L=]http://dynebolic.org/[/L]
SuSe live 8.0 eval is smaller than both Knoppix vers at 644 megs

Lars:

Misc KDE info incl. your screen res
question.

[L=]http://docsrv.caldera.com:8457/en/kdefaq/not-kde.html#AEN2690[/L]
 
OK, downloaded it and I'm running it, but I'm not sure it detected my NIC. I'm guessing it didn't find and auto configure my network card, because when I run ifconfig eth0 it says eth0 does no exist. So, if I get drivers for it and get it working, am I going to have to do that every time I boot into Knoppix? I mean, there is no way for it to save these settings is there?


EDIT: I just shut down the system and rebooted, and this time it detected my network card just fine. Weird.
 
Originally posted by: trmiv
OK, downloaded it and I'm running it, but I'm not sure it detected my NIC. I'm guessing it didn't find and auto configure my network card, because when I run ifconfig eth0 it says eth0 does no exist. So, if I get drivers for it and get it working, am I going to have to do that every time I boot into Knoppix? I mean, there is no way for it to save these settings is there?


EDIT: I just shut down the system and rebooted, and this time it detected my network card just fine. Weird.
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Out of curiosity, what network card do you have?
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: trmiv
OK, downloaded it and I'm running it, but I'm not sure it detected my NIC. I'm guessing it didn't find and auto configure my network card, because when I run ifconfig eth0 it says eth0 does no exist. So, if I get drivers for it and get it working, am I going to have to do that every time I boot into Knoppix? I mean, there is no way for it to save these settings is there?


EDIT: I just shut down the system and rebooted, and this time it detected my network card just fine. Weird.
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Out of curiosity, what network card do you have?
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Linksys LNE100TX



Oh, and I just answered my own question about the settings saving, I found the option to save all settings to a floppy. Too bad this machine doesn't have a floppy drive. I might have to go pick one of those little bastards up. 🙂


BTW everyone, if you want to run commands as root with Knoppix, the easiest way is to put "sudo" before your commands. So something like "sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"

Or, if you want to set the root password yourself (not sure if it saves this to the floppy after rebooting) type "sudo passwd root" and it will let you set the root password. From then on you can just "su" to root and you're good to go.
 
Saving settings and files to other removable media is possible too. Knoppix and SuSE 8.0 recognised my Microtech ZIO USB CF adapter (boot with it connected) and a friends Archos jukebox.
 
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