Probably a stupid question, but I wonder something - I run Knoppix off of cd at work and save my stuff to flash drive (writing config files to flash drive, and also made a permanent /home directory there, it's using a file called knoppix.img). My question is as follows: what if I want to get at the information in that img file while using another distro? Any ideas?

You'd need to mount the flash drive. You may also need to read it as root.

Hi squidhm3,

you need to have loop back support enabled in the kernel of another distro from where you want to access the files.

But I think most of the new kernels already come with loop devices enabled.

For reading the contents of the knoppix.img you need to do following.

1. Mount the usb stick
e.g.
2. Copy the knoppix.img onto your hdd ( this is not really needed but I suggest to copy just to avoid confusion of double mounts)
e.g.
3. Create a mount point where you want to access the contents
e.g.
4. Mount the img file with -o loop option
e.g.
Now, you can access the file-structure under /mnt/knoppixhome

regards,
Hardik

I'll try that when I get home - I burned CentOS 4.4's live CD and it's working well (albeit a bit slower). I appreciate the info and let you know how it goes!