[TriLUG] Three questions about Knoppix

[Meyer, David R]

Newsforge recently ran an article on how to install Knoppix on your hard
drive.  Please see the attached link:

http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/1920257&mode=thread&tid=23

Once I free up one of my systems I am going to do this.  I am told by a
few that already have that it works like a charm!

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Portzer [mailto:jeremyp at pobox.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 8:51 AM
To: TriLUG List
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Three questions about Knoppix

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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