Knoppix Tips and Tricks 496
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 ;)."
Rescue (Score:2, Insightful)
it deserves the hype (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:My Knoppix Problems (Score:3, Insightful)
Hard Drives using the the latest IDE can get 133 Megabyters per second BURST transfers, but even good ones usually only get 50 Megs SUSTAINED transfer.
Despite your screwy numbers, Hard Drives really are much faster for loading operating systems. But the other place you screw up is that you forget what Knoppix is all about - A bootable linux distro would be a lot less convienient if you had to carry it around on a hard drive and open up computers you wanted to use it on.
Re:Dangerous (Score:5, Insightful)
Despite of this obvious threat, Dreamcasts were not banned, nor made to implement stronger security measures. Why? Because if any device on a network, w/o a password or any type of authorization other than its physical location can destroy a firewall, then the network itself has larger problems to deal with. To me, this calls into question the assumption of trusted devices. In short, Knoppix cannot forsee it's use, thus placing the burden on those who create and administer networks to do so in a safe and responsible manner.
Re:Dangerous (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Knoppix (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:7200, 5400 HD RPM and 52X CD-ROM RPM (Score:4, Insightful)
Hence a 52X speed CD-ROM will revolve 10920 and 28028 times per minute on the outer and inner edge respectively
Wait. Did you just say that with a straight face, or am I misreading?
If the inner edge revolves more often than the outer edge, just how are they being held together? How many times a minute is the centre of the disc spinning?
I think you're getting velocity confused with rpms
Taking it to the store??? (Score:2, Insightful)
I haven't bought an off the shelf computer for myself for, gee, 7 years? I quite enjoy putting together the pieces myself, and building a computer that totally meets my own needs, and not the "Smart Business User" or "X-Treme Gamer!" mold. I'm quite capable at building my own computers, I buy and build (usually off the shelf, though) computers for my workplace, and am more computer capable than 99% of the people I know, but I don't use Linux on the desktop. I am slowly but surely acquiring UNIX-like skills by using FreeBSD as a server at home and at work, but I don't have the time nor patience to learn a new desktop OS. It therefore surprises me that users who are confident enough that they will be running a relatively insider-OS (Knoppix as opposed to Redhat/Slackware/whatever) will not be building their own rigs, with full knowledge of the compatibility therein.
Obviously it is so, but it's weird to me. As a programmer, I would definitely recommend you girls get your hands in some hardware (ground yourselves first, of course
-Greg
Re:DD != Ghost (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I used knoppix at bestbuy (Score:5, Insightful)
Anyways, buying computers retail is a bad idea usually. I'm a student worker at the IT dept. of my University and it seems we're always working on student HPs and Compaqs. I'm not sure if thats because its what most people have, or if the people that need help (usually from catching a virus and/or getting loads of spyware) or if its because the machines are crap. Perhaps all of the above.
Re:Knoppix (Score:1, Insightful)
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Re:My 6 year old son likes Knoppix, really (Score:4, Insightful)
And some critics say that Linux is too complicated to be used by adult professionals in the workplace.
You obviously have a very smart son, but the point remains -- Linux is definitely ready for the mainstream, usability-wise.
testing new systems (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Knoppix - let me try again. (Score:3, Insightful)
config NTFS_RW
bool "NTFS write support"
depends on NTFS_FS
help
This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.
The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
so you may find that some very small files (
It is perfectly safe to say N here.
Re:Knoppix firewall (Score:2, Insightful)
I'm tempted to mark this off as firewall cargo-cultism. Barring bugs in the kernel, a port that is not listening cannot accept packets. Given that iptables runs in the same kernel, I'm inclined to believe that it's equally-likely to have a bug that causes it to accept packets it should drop/reject.
With a read-only system such as knoppix, it's extremely hard for a trojan to set up a rogue service on a high port for long enough to be useful to an attacker, and next to impossible to arrange for that to come back next time the system is rebooted.
Re:My best experience with linux (Score:2, Insightful)