On 20120723_110432, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 04:18:07PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I have already downloaded Knoppix v7.0.1, per Chris' suggestion, but > > have not yet found out what to do with it. Does it have memory, > > component test software on it? > > Yes. At boot prompt read help screens. :)
Using the disk I downloaded yesterday and got burnt today, there is a fancy KDE gui, but no help screens about such trivia as getting it working on possibly defective, broken, hardware. I got it working on a different computer and discovered that it uses UNIONFS to overlay an record of changes that one makes to files on the root partition. But even on my better computer, I couldn't find a way to exit from Knoppix gracefully. Shutdown only shut down KDE and left the computer in a state where it was unresponsive to any keyboard keys that I could think to try. I had to do a press-and-hold the power button to recover the use of the computer. When it came back up in Squeeze, the changes that I had made to a file on the root partition were not there. The had not been written to real disk during the somewhat brutal shutdown. One bright spot for the day. The new memtest+ package in Squeeze has a nice feature: It edits grub config to included memtest+ image in the boot menu. With this, one doesn't have to have a working CDROM drive to do a memtest. I have one running now on the problem box. I'll be looking into earlier versions of Knoppix tomorrow. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120723042134.ga3...@big.lan.gnu
