Havin_it Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 'Ning Never thought I'd be posting about another distro after only being with Mandy a few months, but hey. Got a nifty 64MB pen-drive for Chrimbo, and currently my own laptop is having battery probs so I was left with my GF's WinME (please god deliver me) laptop. So in a flash (and I do mean that - just a couple hours on Bittorrent ) I'd acquired Knoppix 3.7 to while away the rest of my Sunday. After a few boots and generally loving what I saw, I came to the nitty-gritty issues: storage and internet access. This has not gone so well. The pen-drive mounts okay (provided it's inserted at boot), but when I tried to run through the 'Create persistent home directory' script, the only option the GUI would give me was the HD. I read the bit about specifying the home mount-point at boot, and (though I wasn't convinced this alone would do the trick) set out to try making a KNOPPIX folder on the pen. This didn't work in GUI or shell, because it was mounted as read-only. And modifying /etc/fstab isn't gonna be very persistent, I guess...! So, question 1: how can I make it so I can mount the pen r/w at boot, or in a very simple manner thereafter? So far I haven't figured out how to mount it if I insert it after boot, so I'm not at all sure where to start. Internet - the GF is using a Belkin wifi card, same model as I use effortlessly with MDK10.1 and ndiswrapper 0.8 or whatever is preinstalled with Mandy. (I haven't needed to do all the tortuous old-version removal with 10.1 that I did with 10.0) I've not yet ascertained what version Knoppix is using, but old MDK10.0 problems are coming back to haunt me, namely a total freeze. With 10.0 I'd gotten round this by loading the driver (modprobe ndiswrapper) before inserting the card, but when I use the script provided in Knoppix, then insert the card, it still freezes. Question 2: what (besides the drivers) can I pack onto the pen, to help ndiswrapper load-up without issue? I'd like to be able to store a couple of alternate ifcfg-wlan0 files on there too if possible (just home, work, pub - Edinburgh's not a big place for wifi). I know this is a big and rambling issue, but even if you can take a swipe at one of the above issues, I'd welcome the advice. I love the ease of 'infecting' unsuspecting Winboxes with Linux (MUA-HA-HA) and would like to make a go of this, but Q1 is an absolute must. Q2 is really to keep me sane while I wait to get back to good ol' Mandy. G'night then. Hope you come up with some peals of wisdom! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted January 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 Okay, you can scrap Q1 [i'm just relating this for posterity of course] I went ahead with the home-directory script, and was able to save an .IMG of my /home onto the Windows partition. So, just for once, let's hear it for FAT32-based Win32! I then copied this image onto the pen drive, rebooted into Knoppix with linux26 home=/mnt/uba1 and game on! Note this doesn't make the rest of the pen writeable, but the image (whose size I set to 30MB) is. ndiswrapper is still a problem though. I tried doing the whole setup through shell, but still ended in a panic.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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