Using knoppix I get permission denied for device

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Try doing an su.  When I used Knoppix some months ago I found even 
though I was supposed to have booted into root I had to run su to be 
able to do things root can do.


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.