[Glastonbury] Knoppix install

[peter]

On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 20:11, peter wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 05:55, 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.
> 
> Yes it does but it would not touch the HD when i was running mandrake
> hence i tried again after installing fedora core 1 
> 
> > [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.
> 
> Thanks for the above i will try later and see how i get on. if not i
> will reinstall from CD again and chose Debain look rather than the
> Knoppix look. may be this has something to do with it! 

I have just done a reinstall using choosing the Debain look and this has
done the trick.

> > 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.
> 
> Yes i have gone into the KDE control centre and looked at the bootup not
> to auto login and show the users so i can login normally but this does
> not seemed to have worked 
> 
> > > I have added a user for myself from Kuser running 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. :-)
> 
> Opps sorry should be more specific yes i did an su then kuser. I don't
> run as root normally.
> 
> 
> > 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
> 
> Don't worry anything is a help! 
> 
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peter <colep at nascr.net>