Help For Newbie knoppix User

[Dr. Strange]

Hello Group.

I have just finished burning to cd the Knoppix iso, but because I have no
experience of using Linux operating systems, I would like to ask two
questions before using it.

1) Is it true that the Knoppix operating system runs from the cd and does
this mean that no files will be written to my hard disk? This is important
as I don't want Knoppix to mess up Windows Xp, which I have just recently
reinstalled.

2) Are there any websites that inform newbie of how to use Knoppix?

Thanks.

Regards.

 

[Terry]

I have just finished burning to cd the Knoppix iso, but because I have no
experience of using Linux operating systems, I would like to ask two
questions before using it.

1) Is it true that the Knoppix operating system runs from the cd and does
this mean that no files will be written to my hard disk? This is important
as I don't want Knoppix to mess up Windows Xp, which I have just recently
reinstalled.

Yes, this is true.

2) Are there any websites that inform newbie of how to use Knoppix?

Knoppix.com has some basic information, a FAQ, and links to other
sites including HOW-TOs. See, for example,
http://www.knoppix.net/docs/

Terry

 

[dszady]

Hello Group.

I have just finished burning to cd the Knoppix iso, but because I have no
experience of using Linux operating systems, I would like to ask two
questions before using it.

1) Is it true that the Knoppix operating system runs from the cd and does
this mean that no files will be written to my hard disk? This is important
as I don't want Knoppix to mess up Windows Xp, which I have just recently
reinstalled.

2) Are there any websites that inform newbie of how to use Knoppix?

1. Yes - The swap file, which is prominently named and after you can
delete if you want.
2.http://www.marcelgagne.com/KBSODG/knoppixhelp.html

 

[Dr. Strange]

Thanks, Terry.

Yes, this is true.


Knoppix.com has some basic information, a FAQ, and links to other
sites including HOW-TOs. See, for example,
http://www.knoppix.net/docs/

Terry

 

[dszady]

Yes, this is true.

This is wrong.

 

[Vrodok the Troll]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 23:45:12 -0400, in alt.comp.freeware, the personage of
dszady <[email protected]>, courtesy of Message-id

This is wrong.

So (according to you, at least), Knoppix *does* write file to hard-drive?

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BBQ=AB?=]

1. Yes -

The answer really is yes, but your 'yes' response looks a lot like a
'no'.

The swap file, which is prominently named and after you
can delete if you want.

Knoppix does not create a swapfile by default. A swapfile is created
only if the user has a FATxx partition and runs the mkdosswapfile
utility. This is not even possible if the only partition(s) are NTFS,
likely in this WinXP case.

 

[Roger Johansson]

This is wrong.

So (according to you, at least), Knoppix *does* write file to hard-drive?

Knoppix can safely be run from the CD and it will not touch your windows
installation, but it will give you the option to save your knoppix
settings on the hard disk if you want to do that.

If you want to save the settings and allow it to set up a swap file it
will put one or two files on your hard disk, but only if you allow it to
do it.

You can delete these files later without problems, you will just lose
the settings you made in knoppix.

 

[NoWhereMan]

1) Is it true that the Knoppix operating system runs from the cd and does
this mean that no files will be written to my hard disk? This is
important as I don't want Knoppix to mess up Windows Xp, which I have
just recently reinstalled.

Yes, this is true.
This is wrong.

So (according to you, at least), Knoppix *does* write file to

hard-drive?

Knoppix can safely be run from the CD and it will not touch your windows
installation, but it will give you the option to save your knoppix
settings on the hard disk if you want to do that.

If you want to save the settings and allow it to set up a swap file it
will put one or two files on your hard disk, but only if you allow it to
do it.

You can delete these files later without problems, you will just lose
the settings you made in knoppix.

You can access to your ntfs hard.drives but if I were in you I won't try to
write files on them, because - as far as I know - this is still experimental

bye

 

[Roger Johansson]

You can access to your ntfs hard.drives but if I were in you I won't try to
write files on them, because - as far as I know - this is still experimental

I only have experience of Knoppix writing to vfat32, that is definitely
no problem. You may be right about ntfs drives.

 

[Steve]

Knoppix does not create a swapfile by default. A swapfile is created
only if the user has a FATxx partition and runs the mkdosswapfile
utility.

Not 100% true -- it creates a swapfile if you don't have enough RAM,
although it asks for permission to do so. On my old Win98 box this
was the case, and I certainly didn't run "mkdosswapfile" myself.

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

I only have experience of Knoppix writing to vfat32, that is definitely
no problem. You may be right about ntfs drives.

If I'm not mistaken, the latest version of Knoppix (V3.4) includes the
Captive NTFS software which wraps a Windows NTFS driver and thus
allows full read-write access safely.

 

[Mark Carter]

I only have experience of Knoppix writing to vfat32, that is definitely
no problem. You may be right about ntfs drives.

I had XP installed on my machine, and I wanted to give Linux a go. What
I did was:
1. back up my data in XP(!!!)
2. used Ranish partition manager (it's free) to create partitions for
Linux (+inc. a swap), and a partition for windows using FAT32-LBA (and
not NTFS file type)
3. reinstalled XP on the FAT32-LBA partition
4. installed Linux


That way, I can run XP when I want (sadly, this is most of the time),
and play around with Linux. I can read and write to the windows
partition - which IMO is worthwhile.