[TriLUG] Three questions about Knoppix

[al johson]

"You'll have to educate me on Knoppix." (quote from a recent Tri-lug email)

OK, I love Knoppix, but I have three questions:

After using RedHat and Mandrake for a couple of years, I was eager to try
the "hard distribution"--Debian. When I discovered that the Knoppix disk was
essentially Debian, I picked up a copy from our table at Rarsfest for two
bucks. I first used it on a very old hard 95 drive which had self-destructed
but still had a lot of good data on it. I was astounded at how solid Knoppix
was and extremely easy to use (as a friend remarked it's hard to crash a
system that's on a CD :-)  But I want to know: (first question)--whether if
you do an installation onto your hard drive, is it as easy to install as the
CD was?? (second question)--and is there anyway you can do such an
installation from the Knoppix CD that I already have?? (third question)--I
was also told by our "staff of experts" at Rarsfest that it was possible to
use the Knoppix disk I have to "rescue" data from another Linux system.
Unfortunately, when I tried to rescue the data from that old 95 hard drive.
I could see and access the files I wanted to save, but I couldn't figure out
how to get the CD-burner software (I believe it was "roast") to burn cd's
that I could put the data on. So my third question is this: Can someone give
me some SIMPLE STEP-BY-STEP instructions how to burn disks using just the
Knoppix disk alone?? If this can't be done, is there another easier way to
get large files off of a crashed hard drive?
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Hope everyone enjoyed the Durham hamfest. If you missed it, never fear there
are TWO more hamfests in our local area before Christmas: Cary's Swapfest
(July 19th-it's air-conditioned!) and Benson's hamfest in early November. If
you haven't been to a hamfest before, you are missing one of the greatest
"geeks gettogethers" you can attend (except of course for our monthly
Tri-lug meetings!!). ---Al Johnson.