Knoppix Questions

[Net Llama!]

Oh, duh, just occured to me that your problem is that you can't mount 
anything, right?

On 02/11/03 18:40, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> Okay, unfortunately I don't have a device on my desktop for / or any of the 
> other mount points.  It booted to KDE 3.0.  When I tell it to create a new 
> hard disk I only get a choice of floppy or cdrom.  A mount command from the 
> command line shows /dev/root is mounted as / and is rw but I can't do 
> anything with it.
> 
> Knoppix says the system is locked up but don't tell you how to unlock it 
> <G>!
> 
> 
> Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>> 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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