[TriLUG] Three questions about Knoppix

[al johson]

Well, yes I thought about that problem (actually when I had Intrex build
this machine and had them put two drives in it)--there's still two drives
but one is for DVD's (and CD's) and the other is the CD-RW, but I just
couldn't get Roast to recognize the burner even though Knoppix was running
from my DVD drive--and yes both the DVD and CD drives will boot the
computer--to answer that question).--Al Johnson.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Leathers" <ryan.leathers at globalknowledge.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Three questions about Knoppix


> 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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