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For those who don't know Knoppix is a live CD linux distro, in other words it runs right off the CD. Never got around to trying then I decided I should, so I did. well I'm impressed. It detected everything correctly, no need to run any obscure command line stuff to get things to work. Just boot off the CD, wait till it loads and everything works, full video, sound, network, everything. Best of all, it comes with firefox. Posting from Knoppix right now, actually. Looks like there's quite a lot of stuff, actually.

Oh, and I found this amusing, you get full read access on NTFS partitions. Who needs NTFS permissions anyway? You can't write to them though, but it might simply be something I activate or something.

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Red Squirrel wrote: For those who don't know Knoppix is a live CD linux distro, in other words it runs right off the CD. Never got around to trying then I decided I should, so I did. well I'm impressed. It detected everything correctly, no need to run any obscure command line stuff to get things to work. Just boot off the CD, wait till it loads and everything works, full video, sound, network, everything. Best of all, it comes with firefox. Posting from Knoppix right now, actually. Looks like there's quite a lot of stuff, actually.

Oh, and I found this amusing, you get full read access on NTFS partitions. Who needs NTFS permissions anyway? You can't write to them though, but it might simply be something I activate or something.

NTFS!?!?

I NEEDED KNOPPIX WHEN MY PC WAS DOWN! I was using PHLAK and that doesn't support NTFS.

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Can't write to it though, well it said there's a way to do so but it will corrupt the entire file system...

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I love knoppix- haven't used it in a while though but would recommend that people at least download it and burn it to cd.

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I haven't used it in a while either, I have 3.6 burned but I am downloading the new 3.9 now.

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well thats good news to hear this . keep this updated Please i have a few people
that want to use lunix but i have as yet to turn them on to one or the other.as i do not have the time to sit down with them .meaning take them by the hand and show them the way . so if this works out and will handle NTFS and find everything .it will be a godsend .post the download link ill download it and burn it to an iso and have to readdy .i even have a blank hard drive on my computer .wait cant have that got to have something on it .doesnt sound right a blank drive yup sure do .guess it will fit right on there .lots of room .

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Yeah there is a way to install it on a HDD, not sure how, but I think I saw an option right on the CD, so it's probably not too hard.

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I didn't care if I could right to it, I was able to access files on it, right? Like view them and upload them to the internet and stuff?

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Yep you can view the files in NTFS. I love the fact that it completely ingores NTFS permissions. So with a knopix CD and physical access to a machine you can pretty much get anything. The password is probably stored in user.dat or another file like that. (encrypted though)

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{encrypted though} well now RED
if my memory servers me right ? might just be away around this small problem .
did i say that ,opps .
nope must of been my evil twin


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Oh I'm sure there is a way, just have not experimented with it yet. Chances are it's been done a million times so all I need is to google on how to do it.

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You know
that might just be a plan
aint ya glad im back again ?

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RED , anyone want to tell me where i can find the DVD copy in something outside of an easy cd creator file format ? that Kinda sucks for me .all i have is #5 and it work for krap on making an inmage file into an ISO, i use nero .or tell me where i can lojack one from lol,that a joke people

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knopix is only 1 CD though, at least I'm pretty sure. If there's more then you probably just need disc 1 since I never had it prompt me to insert another disc and I went through quite a lot of programs and such while messing around.

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I've got that CD i think it's Knopix & could never get it to do anything.

It wouldn't see my printers or internet & I could never figure it out.

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guess i didnt make myself clear
i got the DVD download all 3.08 gigs of it .so i can put this on the empty hard drive RED.
but i have a lot of problem burning it with roxio easy cd creator 5.thats why i use nero .so anyone got a lojack i can use ?
or a better way ,not sure if the live cd will do a install to an empty hard drive even with a boot loader.i think a lot of files will be missing yet

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