[Glastonbury] Questions

tom hayward glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk
Thu Jul 17 07:51:00 2003


On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:56:46  +0000 andrew wrote

>BE AWARE -- if you do boot into Knoppix from CD each time, then most of
>the time you are root - not least because that's the default and there's
>no ready way to add a user to a read only medium :) If you install
>Knoppix to hard disk, then you can add non-root users. Running the
>whole time as root Just Because You Can is a Bad Idea :)
>
>If you're running KDE - which you are by default - and you click on the
>blue window with the shell, then you are just opening up a terminal into
>which you can type commands e.g. emacs helloworld.c
>(which would open the Emacs text editor to start editing a file called
>hello world.c).
>
>If you actually want to create scripts to run a series of commands -
>shell scripting - then you need to read a whole lot of other resources,
>not least the man page for bash / ksh.  Try reading the tutorials linked
>from http://startext.demon.co.uk or search Google for the online version
>of RUTE.
>
>HTH,
>
>Andy


How do you install it to the hard drive?

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