[TriLUG] Three questions about Knoppix

[Ryan Leathers]

How about smb or nfs or ftp or rsync or....

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 08:51, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 11:47, al johson wrote:
> > 
> > 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?? 
> 
> I've heard this is possible, but it requires quite a bit of knowledge of
> Debian anyway.  It's probably more straightforward to install Debian
> itself if you wish to have a Debian-based system.
> 
> > (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?
> 
> 
> Do you have two CD-ROM drives in your computer?  If not, you can't
> backup the old Linux hard drive with Knoppix.  This is because it's not
> possible to unmount the Knoppix CD and insert a blank CD.  But if you
> have two CD-ROM drives, put the Knoppix CD in whichever one isn't the
> CD-RW burner.  Then you should be able to "burn" the files with xcdroast
> or similar tool.  I don't use Knoppix myself so I can't really provide
> step by step instructions without them being wrong. :-)
> 
> --Jeremy
>  
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