Re: RFE: a "testcd" (a la knoppix) option for the debian DVD?

2020-08-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
tures of the files on the fly when they notice you are trying to get out of "your jail" ... If you have the signatures right on the DVD as knoppix does and that write-once media you can test off line, that would make things much harder for them. One of the "technical" problem

Re: RFE: a "testcd" (a la knoppix) option for the debian DVD?

2020-08-13 Thread Albretch Mueller
It always amazes me when computer people rely on syntactical devices for any kinds of tests (like everything is so obvious, right? ;-)); let alone, integrity, security, "privacy" related ones (or that thing they used to call "privacy"). > The testcd option for Knoppix is c

RFE: a "testcd" (a la knoppix) option for the debian DVD?

2020-08-12 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 8/12/20, Albretch Mueller wrote: > >

Re: installing knoppix or debian on hard list

2017-03-11 Thread Joe
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 18:38:52 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 04 February 2017 13:16:23 Richard Owlett wrote: > > I have never had any contact with Knoppix so do not know if a > > similar procedure could be followed. > > Knoppix is intended primarily as a Live CD,

Re: installing knoppix or debian on hard list

2017-03-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 04 February 2017 13:16:23 Richard Owlett wrote: > I have never had any contact with Knoppix so do not know if a > similar procedure could be followed. Knoppix is intended primarily as a Live CD, and last time I tried was quite tricky to install. Lisi

Re: installing knoppix or debian on hard list

2017-02-04 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/03/2017 02:53 PM, John Culleton wrote: I have my existing OS on /sda3. I want to leave it untouched. > I also have an OS on /sda4 that I am willing to overwrite. The easiest path for me is to fire up Knoppix 7.6 and write it to hard disk. But I need assurance that I won't disturb

Re: installing knoppix or debian on hard list

2017-02-03 Thread Kent West
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 2:53 PM, John Culleton wrote: > I have my existing OS on /sda3. I want to leave it untouched. I also > have an OS on /sda4 that I am willing to overwrite. The easiest path > for me is to fire up Knoppix 7.6 and write it to hard disk. But I need > assurance

installing knoppix or debian on hard list

2017-02-03 Thread John Culleton
I have my existing OS on /sda3. I want to leave it untouched. I also have an OS on /sda4 that I am willing to overwrite. The easiest path for me is to fire up Knoppix 7.6 and write it to hard disk. But I need assurance that I won't disturb /sda3 in any way. -- John Culleton Wexfordpress

Re: [OT] Grub2: grub.cfg for live Knoppix running from USB-card

2012-09-19 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 18 Sep 2012 at 17:28:22 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> There'll hopefully be someone here who'll know and reply but it seems >> too specific to Knoppix to expect an answer here. (I understand your >> account p

Re: [OT] Grub2: grub.cfg for live Knoppix running from USB-card

2012-09-18 Thread Brian
On Tue 18 Sep 2012 at 17:28:22 -0400, Tom H wrote: > There'll hopefully be someone here who'll know and reply but it seems > too specific to Knoppix to expect an answer here. (I understand your > account problem though!). > > Looking at the url that you posted earl

Re: [OT] Grub2: grub.cfg for live Knoppix running from USB-card

2012-09-18 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:45 AM, T Elcor wrote: > From: Tom H >> >> Don't you think that you;e more likely to find Knoppix users on a >> Knoppix list like debian-knoppix or in a Knoppix Forum like >> http://knoppix.net/forum/ ? > > I think you're right

Re: [OT] Grub2: grub.cfg for live Knoppix running from USB-card

2012-09-18 Thread Brian
On Tue 18 Sep 2012 at 05:57:54 -0700, T Elcor wrote: > Am trying to create a bootable USB card running Knoppix, which I use > as a recovery tool in case if there are problems with my main Debian > system. To satisfy our curiosity: what does Knoppix on a USB device as a recovery tool

Re: [OT] Grub2: grub.cfg for live Knoppix running from USB-card

2012-09-18 Thread T Elcor
- Original Message - From: Tom H > Don't you think that you;e more likely to find Knoppix users on a > Knoppix list like debian-knoppix or in a Knoppix Forum like > http://knoppix.net/forum/ ? I think you're right, of course. I simply don't have an account there

Re: [OT] Grub2: grub.cfg for live Knoppix running from USB-card

2012-09-18 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:57 AM, T Elcor wrote: > > Am trying to create a bootable USB card running Knoppix, which I > use as a recovery tool in case if there are problems with my main > Debian system. > > I succeeded creating a bootable USB-card based on grub1 but am > havin

[OT] Grub2: grub.cfg for live Knoppix running from USB-card

2012-09-18 Thread T Elcor
Hi, Am trying to create a bootable USB card running Knoppix, which I use as a recovery tool in case if there are problems with my main Debian system. I succeeded creating a bootable USB-card based on grub1 but am having problems with grub2, see http://knoppix.net/wiki/USB_Based_FAQ for

Re: knoppix vs grml (free software mini pi)

2012-02-17 Thread Joe
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:56:44 -0600 green wrote: > Joe wrote at 2012-02-16 13:50 -0600: > > A lot of the time, Knoppix will run a 'difficult' bit of hardware, > > but using mainstream modules that the Debian installer has not seen > > the need for. It is (mostly

Re: knoppix vs grml (free software mini pi)

2012-02-16 Thread green
Joe wrote at 2012-02-16 13:50 -0600: > A lot of the time, Knoppix will run a 'difficult' bit of hardware, but > using mainstream modules that the Debian installer has not seen the > need for. It is (mostly) then a matter of tweaking the Debian > installation to match. D

Re: Knoppix and debian

2011-05-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 03 May 2011 21:34:13 +0300, David wrote in message <201105032134.13546.d_ba...@012.net.il>: > > Knoppix can be installed to a hard drive, but that is not > > recommended, and I can confirm it is unmaintainable. You throw it > > away and install the next version. S

Re: Knoppix and debian

2011-05-04 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 05/03/2011 05:04 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Alex Mestiashvili wrote: run from time to time update-pciids Is that something to do in old stable as well? I just checked cron jobs and nothing is there to do this. don't think that it has something to do with cron . sometimes lspci doesn't

Re: Knoppix and debian

2011-05-03 Thread David Baron
> Knoppix can be installed to a hard drive, but that is not recommended, > and I can confirm it is unmaintainable. You throw it away and install > the next version. Some people claim this is also necessary with Ubuntu. I started with Knoppix, liked it, did the HD install. Was just fine.

Re: Knoppix and debian

2011-05-03 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 03 May 2011 16:51:20 Chen Wei wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 03:29:20PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > just a simple question: I discovered the hardware recognition on the > > KNOPPIX- DVD is very good. > > > > Is this a personal development by Klaus

Re: Knoppix and debian

2011-05-03 Thread Camaleón
;> >> > just a simple question: I discovered the hardware recognition on >> >> > the KNOPPIX- DVD is very good. >> >> > >> >> > Is this a personal development by Klaus Knopper? Is it also used >> >> > by debian? And if not,

Re: Knoppix and debian

2011-05-03 Thread Camaleón
h wrote: >> >> > just a simple question: I discovered the hardware recognition on >> >> > the KNOPPIX- DVD is very good. >> >> > >> >> > Is this a personal development by Klaus Knopper? Is it also used >> >> > by debian? And if no

Re: Knoppix and debian

2011-05-03 Thread Chen Wei
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 03:29:20PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > just a simple question: I discovered the hardware recognition on the KNOPPIX- > DVD is very good. > > Is this a personal development by Klaus Knopper? Is it also used by debian? > And if not, why not? Do y

Re: Knoppix and debian

2011-05-03 Thread Lisi
he hardware recognition on the > >> > KNOPPIX- DVD is very good. > >> > > >> > Is this a personal development by Klaus Knopper? Is it also used by > >> > debian? And if not, why not? > >> > >> I think that the difference is only that knoppix , g

Re: Knoppix and debian

2011-05-03 Thread Joe
On Tue, 3 May 2011 15:29:20 +0200 "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > Hi all, > > just a simple question: I discovered the hardware recognition on the > KNOPPIX- DVD is very good. > > Is this a personal development by Klaus Knopper? Is it also used by > debian? And if n

Re: Knoppix and debian

2011-05-03 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > On Tue, 03 May 2011 15:45:36 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 May 2011 15:07:03 Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > >> On 05/03/2011 03:29 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > >> > just a simple question: I discovered the hardware rec

Re: Knoppix and debian

2011-05-03 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Alex Mestiashvili wrote: run from time to time update-pciids Is that something to do in old stable as well? I just checked cron jobs and nothing is there to do this. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: Knoppix and debian

2011-05-03 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 03 May 2011 15:45:36 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 03 May 2011 15:07:03 Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >> On 05/03/2011 03:29 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: >> > just a simple question: I discovered the hardware recognition on the >> > KNOPPIX- DVD is very good. &

Re: Knoppix and debian

2011-05-03 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 03 May 2011 15:07:03 Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > On 05/03/2011 03:29 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > just a simple question: I discovered the hardware recognition on the > > KNOPPIX- DVD is very good. > > > > Is this a personal development by Klaus Knopper? Is

Re: Knoppix and debian

2011-05-03 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 05/03/2011 03:29 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi all, just a simple question: I discovered the hardware recognition on the KNOPPIX- DVD is very good. Is this a personal development by Klaus Knopper? Is it also used by debian? And if not, why not? Greetings Hans run from time to time

Knoppix and debian

2011-05-03 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, just a simple question: I discovered the hardware recognition on the KNOPPIX- DVD is very good. Is this a personal development by Klaus Knopper? Is it also used by debian? And if not, why not? Greetings Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Cmake on Knoppix

2011-03-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 28 mar 11, 09:17:42, John Culleton wrote: > > I assume I can use aptitude as an ordinary user, and not root. Of course, but it will fail on any command that requires root privileges. For simple searches apt-cache will be faster though ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among De

Re: Cmake on Knoppix

2011-03-28 Thread John Culleton
On Sunday 27 March 2011 17:44:22 Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:56 PM, John Culleton > wrote: > > Knoppix is a Debian derivative so I am asking here. I want to > compile > > > svn versions of programs such as Scribus. Scribus has switched > > from

Re: Cmake on Knoppix

2011-03-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/03/11 07:56, John Culleton wrote: > Knoppix is a Debian derivative so I am asking here. I want to compile > svn versions of programs such as Scribus. Scribus has switched from > conventional ./configure, make, make install sequence to a cmake based > system. I can't s

Re: Cmake on Knoppix

2011-03-27 Thread Wayne Topa
On 03/27/2011 04:56 PM, John Culleton wrote: Knoppix is a Debian derivative so I am asking here. I want to compile svn versions of programs such as Scribus. Scribus has switched from conventional ./configure, make, make install sequence to a cmake based system. I can't seem to be ab

Re: Cmake on Knoppix

2011-03-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:56 PM, John Culleton wrote: Knoppix is a Debian derivative so I am asking here. I want to compile > svn versions of programs such as Scribus. Scribus has switched from > conventional ./configure, make, make install sequence to a cmake based > system. I can

Cmake on Knoppix

2011-03-27 Thread John Culleton
Knoppix is a Debian derivative so I am asking here. I want to compile svn versions of programs such as Scribus. Scribus has switched from conventional ./configure, make, make install sequence to a cmake based system. I can't seem to be able to download cmake using apt-get. Is it cata

Re: Screen width on Knoppix install.

2010-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
not sure I can see the whole picture. I think you need help from Knoppix experts about this. > Another person might have a different experience. But when I > popped a Knoppix disk in my wife's laptop and got a wireless > connect with no grief I was sold. Don't mess with success

Re: Screen width on Knoppix install.

2010-06-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Culleton wrote: On Wednesday 02 June 2010 02:49:18 you wrote: On Ma, 01 iun 10, 22:33:26, John Culleton wrote: I ask here because my message to the Knoppix list has not yet appeared. I assume you missed my reply [1] to your previous message so I am CCing you now. [1] http

Re: Screen width on Knoppix install. Progress report.

2010-06-02 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 10:57:01AM -0400, John Culleton wrote: > On Wednesday 02 June 2010 02:49:18 Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Ma, 01 iun 10, 22:33:26, John Culleton wrote: > > > I ask here because my message to the Knoppix list has not > yet > > > appeared. > &

Re: Screen width on Knoppix install. Progress report.

2010-06-02 Thread John Culleton
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 02:49:18 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 01 iun 10, 22:33:26, John Culleton wrote: > > I ask here because my message to the Knoppix list has not yet > > appeared. > > I assume you missed my reply [1] to your previous message so I am CCing &g

Re: Screen width on Knoppix install.

2010-06-02 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 06/02/2010 10:04 AM, John Culleton wrote: Thanks for your reply. I used Knoppix because it was very easy to install and came with a lot of useful software already, such as Open Office. The install program is called 0wn which stands for zero work needed. My earlier experiences with e.g

Re: Screen width on Knoppix install.

2010-06-02 Thread John Culleton
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 02:49:18 you wrote: > On Ma, 01 iun 10, 22:33:26, John Culleton wrote: > > I ask here because my message to the Knoppix list has not yet > > appeared. > > I assume you missed my reply [1] to your previous message so I am CCing > you now. > &g

Re: Screen width on Knoppix install.

2010-06-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 01 iun 10, 22:33:26, John Culleton wrote: > > I ask here because my message to the Knoppix list has not yet > appeared. I assume you missed my reply [1] to your previous message so I am CCing you now. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/05/msg02551.html Regard

Screen width on Knoppix install.

2010-06-01 Thread John Culleton
I installed Knoppix, a Debian derivative, on my stepson's computer. Everything runs fine. But the screen background does not cover the entire area of his flat screen monitor which measures roughly 17 1/2 inches x 9 7/8 inches. The bottom button bar extends all the way to the left but sto

Japanese KNOPPIX is a laucher of "virtual appliance" for Debian and Ubuntu

2009-12-14 Thread Kuniyasu Suzaki
Dear, Japanese KNOPPIX6.2DVD includes "OS Circular" which is a kind of "virtual appliance". http://www.rcis.aist.go.jp/project/knoppix/knoppix62DVD-en.html OS Circular offers disk images of Debian and Ubuntu with LBCAS (LoopBack Content Addressable Storage). It enables

Re: Final Divorce from Knoppix HDinstall

2009-06-24 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 01:00:13 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > I started out with a hd install of Knoppix 3.3. This was excellent, > > simple to install (though getting sound a ADSL pptp was tricky at first!) > > I used that happily until I discover

Re: Final Divorce from Knoppix HDinstall

2009-06-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-06-23 21:23 +0200, David Baron wrote: > I started out with a hd install of Knoppix 3.3. This was excellent, simple to > install (though getting sound a ADSL pptp was tricky at first!) I used that > happily until I discovered apt-get updates and upgrades. The system has been &

Final Divorce from Knoppix HDinstall

2009-06-23 Thread David Baron
I started out with a hd install of Knoppix 3.3. This was excellent, simple to install (though getting sound a ADSL pptp was tricky at first!) I used that happily until I discovered apt-get updates and upgrades. The system has been steadily upgraded to Sid, 2.6.30 custom kerenel, KDE 4.2.2, etc

Re: All New rc2.d Scripts get Ignored. Debian from KNOPPIX Solved!

2007-08-31 Thread Martin McCormick
Sometimes, I don't exactly feel like the brightest bulb on the tree, ( insert your favorite euphemism for dull-wittedness.) When I originally posted my problem and said that the only thing the scripts that refused to run had in common was that I had put them there, I was very close

Re: All New rc2.d Scripts get Ignored. Debian from KNOPPIX

2007-08-30 Thread Martin McCormick
"Douglas A. Tutty" writes: > If you have a paralell port you could print to a printer with a paralell > port and find a way to get that read. Or, if the box has USB, you could > hook up a usb/serial adapter and use that. See the > remote-serial-console-HOWTO for details. Great ideas. The

Re: All New rc2.d Scripts get Ignored. Debian from KNOPPIX

2007-08-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:53:42AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > When I usually install Linux, I use a serial console. > That is not an option as there are no native serial ports on > this system. I need every screen message to go to a file > somewhere and that may tell me something new.

Re: All New rc2.d Scripts get Ignored. Debian from KNOPPIX

2007-08-30 Thread Martin McCormick
as the daemons fire up. On this system, /etc/init.d/ssh does, in fact, echo such a message but that's one of the 2 scripts I can't get to start during boot. Something is still happening to those 2 scripts when the sequence reaches them and there is no log trace anywhere as to what it

Re: All New rc2.d Scripts get Ignored. Debian from KNOPPIX

2007-08-28 Thread Bob McGowan
Martin McCormick wrote: I installed the newest and probably last Oralux KNOPPIX distribution from a live CD to the hard disk on a laptop and it almost works right. I must not have the right magic touch because I needed to add 2 more startup scripts in /etc/rc2.d in order to start a

All New rc2.d Scripts get Ignored. Debian from KNOPPIX

2007-08-28 Thread Martin McCormick
I installed the newest and probably last Oralux KNOPPIX distribution from a live CD to the hard disk on a laptop and it almost works right. I must not have the right magic touch because I needed to add 2 more startup scripts in /etc/rc2.d in order to start a software speech synthesizer and

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Kent West wrote: > Nope; the BIOS is not shutting down the laptop. > I paused the memtest for five minutes, and then let it continue; the > shutdown occurred five minutes later than it had been shutting down. How unfortunate because that would have been easier to handle. > So I restarted the mem

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-05 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Kent West wrote: Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes of testing. If that is consistently 35 minutes then it makes me wonder how the BIOS

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:56:27PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > OT for Debian, but you folks are knowledgeable ... > > Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. > No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes > of testing.

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:49:51PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. > > No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes > > of testing. > > If that is cons

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-03 Thread Kent West
Bob Proulx wrote: Kent West wrote: Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes of testing. If that is consistently 35 minutes then it makes me wonder how the BIOS power saving

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-03 Thread Kent West
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kent West wrote: OT for Debian, but you folks are knowledgeable ... Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes of testing. I am no expert in this

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Kent West wrote: > Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. > No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes > of testing. If that is consistently 35 minutes then it makes me wonder how the BIOS power saving settings are confi

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kent West wrote: > OT for Debian, but you folks are knowledgeable ... > > > Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. > No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes > of testing. > I am no expert in this ar

OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-03 Thread Kent West
OT for Debian, but you folks are knowledgeable ... Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes of testing. The laptop does not power off when sitting at the Knoppix prompt (I enter some

Fwd: Re: Writting on encrypted partion with Debian sarge reading with Knoppix

2006-12-28 Thread Rainer Dorsch
, which is attached as well. I case you find something out, please let me know. For me the issue is not terribly pressing, because it is just my backup and if really goes something wrong, accessing it from a sarge system instead of a Knoppix disk would be less convenient, but I would not have data

Re: Writting on encrypted partion with Debian sarge reading with Knoppix

2006-11-27 Thread Rainer Dorsch
t the > > file system. > > > > With losetup /dev/loop0, I got on Knoppix > > > > /dev/loop0: [0011]:9556 (/dev/sda5) encryption=CryptoAPI/blowfish-cbc > > > > On the sarge machine, which can mount the encrypted file system > > correctly, I got > > >

Re: Writting on encrypted partion with Debian sarge reading with Knoppix

2006-11-25 Thread Max Vozeler
Hi Rainer, On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 04:05:30PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I did specify the -H rmd160, but it did not change anything, > passphrase was ok, but same error message, when I tried to mount the > file system. > > With losetup /dev/loop0, I got on Knoppix > &

Re: Writting on encrypted partion with Debian sarge reading with Knoppix

2006-11-18 Thread Rainer Dorsch
losetup -k 256 -e blowfish /dev/loop0 /udev/mdisk5 > > <...> > > > When it comes to knoppix now, I tried > > > > losetup -e blowfish256 /dev/loop0 /dev/sda5 # did not accept -k > > parameter mount -t ext3 /dev/loop0 /mnt/crypto > > > > Then I got t

Knoppix NTFS file rescue tricks ?

2006-10-15 Thread Al Dykes
I'm about to play with a windows laptop that seems to have had a disk malfunction. I've used Knoppix to recover files from working disks but this case may be more serious. Is there a HOW-TO for NTFS file recovery in Knoppix of is there even another bootable distro that has reco

Re: Knoppix/Debian HD Install problem

2006-09-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 21 September 2006 11:25, John Graves wrote: > I took what appears to be an unwise shortcut and installed Knoppix on > the harddrive of a spare laptop. It now appears that some portion of > what is installed is in german. Is there an easy way to either fix my > ins

Re: Knoppix/Debian HD Install problem

2006-09-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
John Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I took what appears to be an unwise shortcut and installed Knoppix on > the harddrive of a spare laptop. It now appears that some portion of > what is installed is in german. Is there an easy way to either fix my > installation or re

Knoppix/Debian HD Install problem

2006-09-22 Thread John Graves
I took what appears to be an unwise shortcut and installed Knoppix on the harddrive of a spare laptop. It now appears that some portion of what is installed is in german. Is there an easy way to either fix my installation or reinstall in English? -- Regards, John Graves Dynamic Devices

Re: Writting on encrypted partion with Debian sarge reading with Knoppix

2006-08-22 Thread Max Vozeler
Hi Rainer, On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 06:46:22PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > What I did: > > On the Sarge side: > > modprobe blowfish > modprobe cryptoloop > losetup -k 256 -e blowfish /dev/loop0 /udev/mdisk5 <...> > When it comes to knoppix now, I tried > &g

Writting on encrypted partion with Debian sarge reading with Knoppix

2006-08-19 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, for backup purposes I want to write on an encrypted partition with my Debian Sarge system and read from that partition with Knoppix or another live-cd Has anybody a similar setup running? What I did: On the Sarge side: modprobe blowfish modprobe cryptoloop losetup -k 256 -e blowfish

mouse work realy slow unless i open kmplayer in knoppix

2006-08-15 Thread Jabka Atu
Hello... i hope it is didn't bad thing to post here some thing about knoppix (afafik knoppix=tiney debian). so if it wrong plz say where can i post it . here is the issue : knoppix 5.0.1 on amd 2200 usb mice. the system starts and the mouse works really slow (like i have nobody_cared i

Re: Failed to boot, wants to acces harddisk via knoppix

2006-05-22 Thread Will Twomey
number, type hda: max request size ... hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 ie some information about the disk and it's partitions. If the disk is detected by Knoppix you should also find your partitions in the /etc/fstab Knoppix created for you. On this boot with knoppix, the /dev/hda was detected and mount

Re: Failed to boot, wants to acces harddisk via knoppix

2006-05-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On this boot with knoppix, the /dev/hda was detected and mounted, but with plenty of room. df [EMAIL PROTECTED] df hda* Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root

[SOLVED]: Re: Failed to boot, wants to acces harddisk via knoppix

2006-05-22 Thread severino
Quoting Will Twomey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i guess this should be considered a "bad answer" from the system: # mount /dev/hda9/ /mnt/drive mount: /dev/hda9 is not a valid block device hinting to

Re: Failed to boot, wants to acces harddisk via knoppix

2006-05-22 Thread severino
. hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 ie some information about the disk and it's partitions. If the disk is detected by Knoppix you should also find your partitions in the /etc/fstab Knoppix created for you. On this boot with knoppix, the /dev/hda was detected and mounted, but with plenty of room. df [EM

Re: Failed to boot, wants to acces harddisk via knoppix

2006-05-22 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i guess this should be considered a "bad answer" from the system: > # mount /dev/hda9/ /mnt/drive > mount: /dev/hda9 is not a valid block device > > hinting towards a very damaged HD! > I don't believe you want the / at the end of /dev/hda9. Also, you might fsck that

Re: Failed to boot, wants to acces harddisk via knoppix

2006-05-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ial number, type hda: max request size ... hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 ie some information about the disk and it's partitions. If the disk is detected by Knoppix you should also find your partitions in the /etc/fstab Knoppix created for you. Maybe the cable is slightly loose. You could try to carefully

Re: Failed to boot, wants to acces harddisk via knoppix

2006-05-22 Thread severino
omputer suddenly freezed, No response from keyboard, that >> is, I could not switch to tty and shutdown / reboot from there. >> >> I did it the hard, turning of the power. Tried to reboot, but no succes. >> >> I have now booted up with knoppix, and would like to have ac

Re: Failed to boot, wants to acces harddisk via knoppix

2006-05-22 Thread Mihira Fernando
cces. > > I have now booted up with knoppix, and would like to have access to the > harddrive. How do I mount it (if possible -- if it is damaged, there is > little hope)? > Knoppix usually identifies harddrives and mounts them by default unless the file system is one t

Re: Failed to boot, wants to acces harddisk via knoppix

2006-05-22 Thread Will Twomey
m there. I did it the hard, turning of the power. Tried to reboot, but no succes. I have now booted up with knoppix, and would like to have access to the harddrive. How do I mount it (if possible -- if it is damaged, there is little hope)? TIA /severino -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Failed to boot, wants to acces harddisk via knoppix

2006-05-21 Thread severino
Yesterday the computer suddenly freezed, No response from keyboard, that is, I could not switch to tty and shutdown / reboot from there. I did it the hard, turning of the power. Tried to reboot, but no succes. I have now booted up with knoppix, and would like to have access to the harddrive. How

Fwd: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-21 Thread Hex Star
-- Forwarded message --From: hugo vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Mar 21, 2006 11:01 AM Subject: Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing elseTo: Hex Star <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>So if you install lilo, have it installed, you get ascript "mkrescue" with

Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-03-16 06:24:59, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: Hi list, I have a new SATA drive (WDC WD800JD-60LUA0) that I have problems with getting recognized by Sarge. I have this 80 GByte drive too and the WDC WD360GD (Raptor) If Knoppix has absolutely no problems, I

Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-03-17 06:19:58, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: sudo: unable to lookup Knoppix via gethostbyname() LILO version 22.6.1, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2004 John Coffman Released 17-Nov-2004, and compiled at

Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-20 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:08:43 +0100 Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2006-03-16 14:01:02, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > > Jacob, let me go over your suggestion: boot the knoppix CD and > > modprobe dm_mod, t

Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-03-17 06:19:58, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: > sudo: unable to lookup Knoppix via gethostbyname() > LILO version 22.6.1, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger > Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2004 John Coffman > Released 17-Nov-2004, and compiled at 12:32:

Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-03-16 14:01:02, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Jacob, let me go over your suggestion: boot the knoppix CD and modprobe > dm_mod, then mount /, meaning the partition that I usually run from? > And then chroot into that mounted partition and run the lilo that I > normally run?

Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-03-16 11:55:20, schrieb Jacob S: > Woody will not recognize SATA drives. I would try a "modprobe dm_mod" > in Knoppix, then mount /, with /boot mounted inside of it, if they are > on different partitions. Now chroot into / and run the installed copy > of lilo. Thi

Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-03-16 06:24:59, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Hi list, > > > I have a new SATA drive (WDC WD800JD-60LUA0) that I have problems with > getting recognized by Sarge. I have this 80 GByte drive too and the WDC WD360GD (Raptor) > If Knoppix has absolutely no prob

Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
steef wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi list, I have a new SATA drive (WDC WD800JD-60LUA0) that I have problems with getting recognized by Sarge. Knoppix finds it OK, I can partition the disk, write to it, no problems. The Debian3.1r1 Debian Installer, finds it

Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-20 Thread steef
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi list, I have a new SATA drive (WDC WD800JD-60LUA0) that I have problems with getting recognized by Sarge. Knoppix finds it OK, I can partition the disk, write to it, no problems. The Debian3.1r1 Debian Installer, finds it, identifies it

Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi list, I have a new SATA drive (WDC WD800JD-60LUA0) that I have problems with getting recognized by Sarge. Knoppix finds it OK, I can partition the disk, write to it, no problems. The Debian3.1r1 Debian Installer, finds it, identifies it, but with installation on

Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
-(...lemme know please if trying lilo 1: 22.6.1-7+b1 from Sid and backporting to Sarge works, thanks! :-) Booting lilo 22.6-1-7+b1 generated from Knoppix with SATA drive connected produces same 999's. :-( We ought to stay in touch off-list. Contact me at hugo van woerkom (all one word)

Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-18 Thread Hex Star
ng this all with Debian Sarge> (suggestions were things like, try running the grub installer from> knoppix, try changing the root (hd..) entry in the menu.lst file, etc> but no dice :-( ...even tried repartitioning and reinstalling both grub> and lilo numerous times (and for lilo, tried

Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
sn't know how to handle properly) seems like there's an issue with Debian and this drive...:-(..was attemtping this all with Debian Sarge (suggestions were things like, try running the grub installer from knoppix, try changing the root (hd..) entry in the menu.lst file, etc but

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