Knoppix Tips and Tricks

cosog writes "Robert Storey writes in a thorough review about Knoppix: 'Some people even take a Knoppix disk with them when they go shopping for a new computer, a clever way to ensure that the hardware will be Linux compatible before you purchase it.' His article discusses things like: booting, rescuing, installing on HDD, tips'n'tricks, etc... A nice read for everyone interested in Linux (and Knoppix in particular ;)."

It seems like...

[jdhutchins]

he's running whatever server this article is on off of one of those machines sitting on the store shelf, based on it responsiveness.

KnoppiXBox?

[R33MSpec]

Now all we need is a Knoppix distro that loads automatically onto a demonstration Xbox at your nearest major retailer!

Oh the fun you could have especially if your playing on a big screen surrounded by huge Xbox signage!

Re:Slashdotted?

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you need to fix your redirect script. I have clicked on your link multiple times and not gotten to goatse, tubgirl, lemonparty, etc. once.

Re:I used knoppix at bestbuy

[Anonymous Coward]

Thats why they call them Best Lie.

Dangerous

[flopsy mopsalon]

This Koppix looks like a good way for a hacker to go around taking over computers. In this age of terrorism, an attacker taking over computers at an airport, traffic light control center, or water treatment plant, could be especially dangerous. I hope the developers have put in appropriate safety measures to prevent this from happening.

Re:Dangerous

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, they've thought of that and built in a safety mechanism. On bootup, it asks the user whether they are Evil or not. If they say yes, it just powers down.

Re:What could you steal?

[Goldfinger7400]

I wonder what sort of data you could steal from store PCs with Knoppix and a USB storage device?

h3llo this isa test of word...

Re:Knoppix

[Geek of Tech]

You mean Dungeons and Dragons is a system administration tool also?! Dang! Just when I thought I knew something.... Good thing slashdot is here to correct that....

Oww, you mean the command dd..... right.... I knew that....

Re:I used knoppix at bestbuy

[JonnyQabbala]

I imagine stores that show computers like this have had to deal with their fair share of people trying to break the system.

I used to manage a Tandy store in Australia (Radio Shack for yanks). It seemed to me that some peoples favorite past time was to see how screwed they could make a pc.

Personally, I would have loved to have had a few Knoppix CD's on hand. I would have glued them into the CD-ROM and set the PC to boot CD only. Would have saved me hours of reloading Windows from the stupid compaq restore CD's

Re:I used knoppix at bestbuy

[js7a]

I would be suprized if any of the salespeople noticed.

The rest take 5d20 Damage (n/t)

[PepsiProgrammer]

n/t = no text

Re:Knoppix

[john_smith_45678]

Your hard drive has just crashed. Roll saving throw...

Re:Knoppix

[Guppy06]

"You mean Dungeons and Dragons is a system administration tool also?!"

I can see the list of user rights now...

• has Mountain Dew
• has Cheetos
• can cast a spell
• • can cast "Magic Missile"
  • has materials for "Morton Kiden's Magical Watchdog"
  • has so totally cast "Morton Kiden's Magical Watchdog"

is in the room

• has ogre-slaying knife (+9)

is at the pub

• is getting drunk
• • gets to do girls at pub

Re:Knoppix for nonprofits?

[Anonymous Coward]

Remote, rural nonprofit-run offices with dated hardware ...can't run Knoppix because of not enough RAM.

Re:Knoppix

[Grandmaster Mort]

Jesus saves!...and takes half damage!

Re:It seems like...

[prodangle]

... is on off of one of ... You get 10 points for spectacular use of language.

Re:Knoppix

[kelnos]

gets to do girls at pub

please, this is slashdot. ^_~

Re:Knoppix

[thegreat682]

Porno collection found, roll 12 or better to collect

Doug Gwyn's "Adventure Shell"

[billstewart]

There seems to be a copy of Doug Gwyn's Adventure Shell here [splode.com]. It seems to date from 1986, back when we actually used text to communicate with Unix machines.

You are in a directory. A stairway called .. leads up. There are files here.

Get foo.

Throw foo at /dev/lpr.

Re:There are many limitations to Sysprep:

[jabberw0k]

Does the box include a free HappyFunBall ?

$ history

[Ayanami Rei]

1 find -name '*britney*'
...
10 tar xvfz 70m5-r00t-k17.tgz
...
47 eliza
...
94 help
95 help help
96 del C:\*.*
97 I HATE THIS FUCKING COMPUTER!!!!!!