I've have just downloaded knoppix and I now wondering how I log in on the local file system. I have fc3 and winme installed on my computer.
In knoppix, how did I log in as a local user, so i can get read/write access to my files on the computer?

if you use NTFS as the filesystem, when you load up knoppix you have to mount the drive...most likely hda1..

linux doesnt have write access to NTFS, so if you want to mount the drive, you'll only be able to read it..

as for the fc3 partition...i'm gonna assume its hda2 or hdb1 (depending on weather its 2 drives, or one partitioned one) anyway, try somthing like this

mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2

I use ext3 for my fc3 partitions. And I need to get root access to my drive so i can edit some files.

ok so as root mount the drive, it should be pretty simple...type 'df' to find out what partition the ext3 filesystem is on... say its on hda2 then type

mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2

then if you need write access and its not giving it to you right away...change the permissions for the drive...that should be it

Yes it's no problem to mount the filesystem. But how can I get read/write access. CanI use the "chroot" command maybe?

Hello,
no chroot for this
simply

mount -rw /dev/hda /mnt/hda

-rw read write argument

hda add number which you need ie: hda1 or hda2

Nikolay

Thanks that works great..
But I'am still thinking about how I can get the read/write access with out the rootpassword..

ok I see. maybe I understood it wrong.
if you wanna get rw access to your Fedora partition. obviously some directories gonna be locked there. so you want be able to get acces to them.if its what you want you need to:
mount -rw /dev/hda /mnt/hda
chroot /mnt/hda
su (not sure if it will work but it might)
put your root password for fedora (without it I cannot see the solution)
then you can work from there as your / directory
if you wanna run the X based programs you have to
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0

Nikolay

DONT DO WHAT NIKOLAY suggests ..
why chroot ? that's to change the mount point of your root file system.

The issue you most likely have is the user-id's in FC are different than the user ID's on knoppix ..

One way to do it is to go in a root and change the permission on all folders to +666 .. it's dangerous but other solutions are probably
similarly whaky..

second solution is to create another user on FC (when running FC) and make sure it's userID and groupID is same as knoppix user Id you are using
Change ownership of the folders you want accessible to this user (chown command).. now you "might" be able to do it.

DONT CHROOT ...

hmm wasn't sure about it.
just tried it myself
true. didn't work,it was a guess, just in case sorry, as i understand when you su you get Knoppix su permission.which is not the one needed.

Nikolay

It's wired that's ins't easy to log in on a computer. I read on the knoppix site that's it could be used to system rescue, but if you can't get write access....

So I used the fedora rescue CD instead, it's much easy'er. With the rescue CD you also just get read/write access without any password.