I screwed up on fsck.
Went into knoppix and can see hdb2 /home is mounted but permissions have been changed to drwx------ , how can I save my home directory using knoppix , what does knoppix use
as a "root password"
I have a Laptop connected to same network as PC using Knoppix, can I use ssh to move
files from hdb2 /home to laptop
Could I somehow burn files to a CD.

Please help

Jim

As far as I remember knoppix dosn't need a root password.

You could use partimage to make a compressed image of than partition your /home is on and store it either on another partition with enough space or burn it on a cd-rom.

As for the changed permissions, I'm only guessing here, but bear in mind that you're looking at it, not as user "x", but as root in knoppix - not even root on your own system. I don't think you should worry about it.

Thanks linmix.
But I figured it out.
When going into Knoppix om my pc's hard drive, the first thing you have to do is,
1. Right click on partition you want to save and umount it.
2. Right click again on partition goto /properties/device, and uncheck box than say's "Read only" .
3. Then I went into terminal, and did a 'sudo mount /mnt/hdb2 -o remount , rw' /hdb2 was my home directory.
4. Because my home directory premissions where change to drwx...... I did a 'sudo chmod 755 "directory name" ' .
5 Then I did a ' sudo tar -cvf george.tar "directory name" and archived the directoy.
6. I did a 'scp george.tar 172.16.1.38:/tmp' to my laptop and saved it, Becaused the archived file was 9 gig
I couldn't burn it to a CD burner which knoppix can do, I was using Knoppix-3.6 which didn't have DVD burner support.
So moral of this story is when you install Linux on your harddrive always make a /home partition separate, because
most likely it will be the / partition that crashes.
And the great thing about this I could have retreived files from a crashed $Windows install.
Will there you have it , another happy Linux user makes his day.

Jim