Knoppix Help
 

I am a newbie to Linux, specifically Knoppix 4.0.2 on Live CD, and need some help. Here are my questions:

1. How do you save files on Knoppix?

2. How do you connect to the internet using an existing Belkin wireless internet network?


Thanks!:Pengy:

You can't, at least not easily. Knoppix mounts the filesystem as readonly.

What you can try is:

edit /etc/fstab
Decide which mount you want to make read/write. Change that line, changing ro to rw.
Save.
In a console umount the partition and then issue mount -a
the partition should now be writable.

On the Belkin, sorry can't help. But does Knoppix detect the hardware? That's the first step.

If you want to play at this level I really suggest that you install Linux to a hard disc as otherwise it will be like an arcade game, you have to start from scratch every time.

Not so difficult to write to a partition so long as it is a Linux format ,FAT or FAT 32.
NTFS is a different kettle of fish and probably shouldn't be written to from Linux until the utilities for doing this get better.

To mount a drive from desktop, just click the icon for a drive. This defaults to read-only.

To mount as read-write, right-click a mounted drive, then select "Actions" then "Change read/write mode".

To unmount, right click the drive icon and choose "Unmount".

Well recommended by me for tips and ways of doing things in Knoppix is "Knoppix, pocket reference" from O'Reilly, which I carry around everywhere to help fix Windows systems. :cool:

Happy hunting :)