Knoppix Questions
Brett I. Holcomb
bholcomb
Mon May 17 11:44:34 PDT 2004
I eventually found some of the answers.
1. Due to Knoppix's security setup you have to sudo commands so sudo
modprobe dpt_i2o installs it. Never would have thunk it <G>!
2. Evidently /etc/hosts is symlinked to something so you have to destrory
the symlink, then create your own file - even as sudo.
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!
>
> Thanks.
>
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Brett I. Holcomb
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