[TriLUG] Three questions about Knoppix

[al johson]

Well, I already know of another "easy method" of  installing Debian. It's
called "Libranet", and a review of how easy it was to install was very
glowing in Lockergnome's Penguin Shell Newsletter.
     Apparently there are also some other good GUI installation
distributions of Debian as well, although I haven't memorized their names.
If anyone has info on Libranet or any of the others, I would appreciate
hearing about it. Hope everyone is doing well.
   On another subject, I didn't think I was going to enjoy the last Trilug
program, simply because since I deal with Dbase all the time (once you
become relatively proficient in something that will run on DOS--you just
don't want the hassel of a GUI getting in the way), and a total lack of
interest in the topic. But I was wrong. The program's interest for me was
the fact that Oracle was "forced" to create a version of their software for
Linux. I've also noted that Red Hat's stock has been a lot firmer of late,
no doubt reflecting this and other favorable circumstances. Also the big bad
wolf has started it's howls again against Linux. Stand bye for his "huffs
and puffs" in your brick Linux house!!--Al Johnson.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Meyer, David R" <David.Meyer07 at ca.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 9:05 AM
Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Three questions about Knoppix


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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