[Glastonbury] Knoppix install

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 05:55:58AM +0000, tim hall wrote:
> On Thursday 01 January 2004 14:43, peter wrote:
> > Well i hope that every one had a good new-year.
> 
> Hang on, it's only just started :-)
> 
> > I have been playing a little with my laptop that was running Mandrake
> > 9.2 Which i am afraid to say i found a little flakey!
> 
> Mm, had similar experience myself.
> 
> > I wanted to install Knoppix onto it for some time but could not because
> > of the partitions. ( more of which later)
> 
> Doesn't the Knoppix installer allow you to repartition the HD? the Linux 
> version of fdisk should work. Anyway, you're clearly past this point.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Know for the question how do i stop Knoppix logging straight into KDE
> > with out asking for a login?
> 
> There isn't much substitute for getting to grips with the boot sequence here. 
> AFAIK Knoppix is Debian based. In that case boot operations begin with init, 
> which reads /etc/inittab at boot-time. This file should provide you with some 
> of the info you need. First you need to make a note of what your default 
> runlevel is (probably 2, but YMMV).
> 
> The scripts that are linked to from /etc/rc?.d (where ? is the number of your 
> default runlevel, so in this case /etc/rc2.d) define what daemons get 
> launched on start-up. The scripts are all held in /etc/init.d - the login 
> screen is provided by a display manager - one of xdm, kdm, gdm or wdm (I 
> don't know if there are others), which is linked to on my box by a link 
> called /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm - S99 is pretty much the end of the boot sequence.
> 
> You need to find the point at which it calls up KDE and comment it out. If 
> you already followed Nick's suggestion this step may be unnecessary.
> 
> > I have added a user for myself from Kuser running as root.
If you do Ctrl-Alt-F1 from within X, you'll get a command line.

Stuff about root below is also listed in the README IIRC.

Default password for root in Knoppix is either a null password or 
knoppix - I forget which and it may be version specific.

As root, type passwd and CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD :)

Since it's Debian based, if you need to add users at a later date,
use the adduser program (as root).

> 
> It's a really, really good idea not to log in as root if you can at all help 
> it :-] use su or sudo from your normal user's desktop or whatever and stick 
> to the command line. It does make sense. :-)
> 
> I apologise for this not really being much of an answer, without knowing more 
> about the specifics of your system it's the best I can offer.
> 
> cheers
> 
> tim hall
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Glastonbury mailing list
> Glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk
> http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/glastonbury