Using knoppix I get permission denied for device

[Alma J Wetzker]

Joel Hammer wrote:
>  I want to use Knoppix to rescue a lindows installation.
>  I have good backups, and have reinstalled the OS from
>  disk. Now, I have to untar my backups.
> 
>  I hesitate to do this on a running system, since I have
>  bad memories of system files being overwriten by such an
>  approach and that is not good.
> 
>  So, I want to untar these files while running knoppix,
>  not lindows.  I need (I think) to run lilo after all the
>  untaring is done.
> 
>  So, I booted knoppix, chroot'd, and made the necessary
>  devices in /dev (hda,hda1,hda3). 
> 
> I made the new devices (mknod) as permissive as I can
> (chmod 777), and all looks well with ls -al.  They are
> block devices.  However, when I run lilo, I get permission
> denied for /dev/hda or some such nonsense. /dev/hda is
> the boot sector in my lilo.conf.
> 
> Any insight appreciated,
> 
This is silly, me offering suggestions, but, when I run knoppix 3.3, I see the 
existing drives/partitions on the desktop and need to change then to 
read/write.  Did they not show up for you?

     -- Alma