Also, I didn't partition my drive. I used a feature that was specifically designed to do what I wanted, while ensuring (according to the website) that the data remained safe. I have installed Fedora on the same computer with no trouble, so I don't think it is a case of linux-incompatibility. I'm just saying that Knoppix, for all the trouble it's caused me, and possibly others, should be more of a rescue disk. I got a RH8 install (my first experience with Linux) finished in an afternoon, including partitioning.
Just warning others that these things COULD happen.
Andrew
Shawn Grover wrote:
Sounds to me like your problems with Knoppix are directly related to trying to interoperate with Windows. If I want to access or run Windows applications/files, then I run Windows. If I want to attempt to recover a crashed drive or experiment with Linux, then I'll use Knoppix. Normally when I'm using Knoppix, I don't even access my local drive.
In addition, it sounds like your hardware is a little flakey. To say that Knoppix sucks because your computer refused to boot after using it, isn't a direct reflection on Knoppix, but more on either your hardware, or what you (or some other user) was doing when running Knoppix. For instance, if I were to do an su in Knoppix, mount my local drive, then repartition it, would it be Knoppix's falut that my hardware wasn't behaving the way it was before using Knoppix?
I don't mean to be insulting here, and I hope I'm not. But I think you might be a little quick to blame Knoppix for the behavior you are reporting. At the very least I think more investigation needs to be done.
My thoughts....
Shawn
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Graupe Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 7:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [clug-talk] Knoppix Crashed My Computer... well, almost
I recently downloaded and burned a copy of the lastest version of Knoppix (3.4). I gave it a test run on my dual-boot WinXP/Fedora box (instead of my Gentoo box), just to see how it would work. I particularly wanted to test the "safe" NTFS writing capabilities. This version is very similar to the last one, except for the 2.6 kernel and the NTFS write support.
All was going well as I used the included OpenOffice Writer to type my essay. I then ran the NTFS driver detection (to grab the MS drivers from my XP partition). It concluded successfully, and I remounted the XP partition with captive-ntfs. Now, to save my report... I tried to save it in my School folder, but, alas, it gave me an error message; I then saved it to my home directory and copied it to the relevant folder. No error messages. I then tried to view it in Konqueror, and I got this message: "Directory does not appear to exist". I then tried going to it again, but Konqueror showed that My Documents no longer existed! I was now worried, so I saved the essay to a floppy and rebooted.
Message: "Boot failed." I was worried, but it turned out that it was still set to force a CD boot, so that was easy to fix, even if it did spike my blood pressure for more than a second. I booted back into WinXP, and the moment of truth came... My Documents was still there! No harm was done, but I promise you its the last time I'll use Knoppix.
Some other Knoppix horror stories that have happened to me:
While using Knoppix 3.3 on my WinXP computer, it froze up. Not worried, I quickly turned it off. (I was a relative noob at that point, so I might have been able to kill the Xserver and recover it). Much to my horror, when I turned it back on, nothing happened. Not even a boot failed message. I could hear the machine running, but nothing was happening. While slightly nervous, I unplugged and replugged it and it worked.
At my school (where the BIOS are no longer set to boot from CD, and password-protected), my friend (using knoppix 3.3) tried to use WINE to emulate the Command Prompt. For whatever reason, this caused Windows 2000 to not boot. It would load, and then reboot for whatever reason. The machine in question had to be re-imaged, but the saving grace is that, months after, the machine still hasn't had the draconian security polices put back into effect.
The moral of my long message: Knoppix can be good, but, in my experience, it can also be a huge headache. It's much easier to use Partition Magic to set aside a 5GB linux partition than everything I've gone through. I no longer recommend Knoppix.
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-- Why am I scared of Windows? Let's just say I will be glad I have my Knoppix CD.
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