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| Thread ID: 53313 | 2005-01-14 00:14:00 | How to install Knoppix Live CD onto a hard drive | chiefnz (545) | Press F1 |
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| 313803 | 2005-01-16 20:28:00 | I-gordon, if you are happy to take the risk that you might accidentally do damage, then run perminantly as root, but make at least one user account for guests or anyone else that you may share the computer with. That way you can make and break things to your hearts content, :rolleyes: but others can't! :D I am sole user on my comp. I have no need to be protected from myself. Secure is great if it protects you from hackers and other users etc. I just get brassed off with all the message windows that pop up. (you dont have permission to do this, that and the other action). My first experience of Knoppix on the hard drive was not good for a newbie. I must have typed in my password at least 25 times in the first hour just to do things I can do in Xandros in a fraction of the time and enter the password 2 or 3 times. Ian |
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| 313804 | 2005-01-16 22:38:00 | Hell yeah!!! Well the sound is going... I don't know how... I just decided to run xmms and my tunes came through. I am still getting the same message when I try to run sndconfig though. At this stage it suits me fine, all I wanted was to be able to play my music. Just busy doing the whole "apt-get upgrade" thingy, system is currently installing all the upgrades. 1) How do I get the speaker icon in the system tray, at the moment I have the big mixer bar.... it's taking up too much space, I would prefer the speaker icon only. I've had a look around but can't find any sort of setting. 2) How do I change my display driver, I can't actually see which driver is being used, from memory when I installed, it was using a generic VESA driver, at startup though the system says "unknown vendor" for the graphics card. It's not a big deal but if I can get a better driver that would be cool. Thanks for all your help ninja. PS: i-gordan.... I haven't had to enter a root password over and over again. However I suspect it's because I've started updating the system from scratch and not do each thing 1 by 1... is that what you were doing... individual updating? I really like the look and feel of the Knoppix system... really smooth and all the things I had a hard time doing with other distros are breeze with Knoppix. Having my NTFS disks recognised and being able to play mp3's from the start is a big bonus. It leaves me more time to explore the power and versatility of the Knoppix system. cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 313805 | 2005-02-09 05:23:00 | I am pleased that it keeps all you linux experts happy., but for learners like me that like to fiddle with things and learn a bit I dont need a secure system, I dont care much if I do wreck it I just try and fix it or reinstall it. No problem! Just log in as root and be done with it. (Of course you throw away a lot of perfectly good security, but you won't have that annoying prompt for the root password) Cheers! |
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