Using knoppix I get permission denied for device

[Collins Richey]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 22:08:05 -0500
"Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb at charter.net> wrote:

> 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.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it's possible to tar an hd? (ie the entire drive).  What you have is one or more tars of specific directories in one or more hd?n.  It is the hd?n that you need to mount for each untar operation.

If you are concerned about the mbr on hd?, use grub or lilo to rebuild this.  Before I tinker with this, however, I make sure to have a grub/lilo boot floppy handy with current specs to reboot in case it goes bang.

HTH,

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Collins - Denver Area
Gentoo stable plus kernel 2.6.1-mm2