Knoppix Questions

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Douglas J Hunley wrote:

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> Brett I. Holcomb spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
>> I eventually found some of the answers.
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>> 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>!
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> or switch to vt1 and set a password for root. then you can 'su -'

I was on vt1 I thought - I ran command line when I booted, not KDE.
 
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>> 2.  Evidently /etc/hosts is symlinked to something so you have to
>> destrory the symlink, then create your own file - even as sudo.
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> everything in /etc is a symlink to /KNOPPIX . cause that's the "host"
> system

Wierd but I guess it works.  
 
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