Knoppix Questions

[Net Llama!]

On 02/11/03 18:20, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> 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!

right click on the device icon for the device you wish to remount, and 
there should be an option to mount it rw.  from there you'll be in 
business, i think.

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