Knoppix Questions

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I've burned a CD of the latest Knoppix in hopes I could use it to boot my 
PIII system and set up the devices.  The system is a dual PIII 933 with an 
Adaptec 3210S RAID card.  Gentoo's boot CD hardware detection won't let me 
install the module for the 3210s (dpt_i2o).  However, the card shows up on 
boot with it's RAID and hotspare and the RH 7.3 XFS install disk will let 
me install the module.  I can't use the XFS CD because it's missing 
utlities I need so I  wanted to try Knoppix. 

I booted Knoppix to the command line successfully but when I do a modprobe 
dpt_i2o (which exists in the modules directory) I am told the operation is 
not permitted.  I assume that's because everything is mounted ro - I can't 
even save the hosts file if I modify it.  I get an error about can't save 
linked files.

What's going on with this distro - how do I get it to allow me to install 
modules.  I went to the Knoppix English forum and tried to search but the 
results are all in German and I forgot all my German years ago!

Thanks.

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Brett I. Holcomb
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