metavoid
06-28-2004, 11:14 AM
Hi there, I been using knoppix for quite some time now and I really love it as its
so powerfull but there is still so much to learn.
(its a hd-install)
Q1)
When I leave my system to go to lunch, the system closes everything and
I have to log in again??
Even if I have a editor open with non-saved data, it will close it...
And I lose my work..! I know I could just save
but since it has never crashed on me I kinda trust it.
Seems to be some sort of timeout, but I cannot find any settings that controls this.
Any ideas? I want to turn it off.
One strange thing in this context. When I have been autologed-off
my mouse scroll button no longer works.?
I have to log off and restart xserver.
Q2)
Can I script cfdisk or other tool to automate the creation of partitions?
Perhaps Im still too newbee to understand the man pages completely.
I want to have a script that creates the partitions and install knoppix.
Q3)
How do I uninstall things?
Say I wanted to strip my knoppix a bit by uninstalling not used software.
So a partimage file would get smaller.
I am not quite sure what tool, I would use. Perhaps some deb tool.
Maybe I should not be looking for something saying Add/remove programs...:)
Q4)
I have a harddisk with knoppix on. It was installed on a singledisk system.
Now I want to use it as hd2 on the slave controller. The first disk is a xp system.
I know I have to tell it that its no longer hda and change where it boots from,
but I am clueless what files that involves and if I should use lilo for it.
I dont need dualboot ie a menu since I just can choose the hd to boot from so I just
need to make knoppix understand that its now on the slave controller and not the maindisk anymore.
Thanks for your patience with people like me.
so powerfull but there is still so much to learn.
(its a hd-install)
Q1)
When I leave my system to go to lunch, the system closes everything and
I have to log in again??
Even if I have a editor open with non-saved data, it will close it...
And I lose my work..! I know I could just save
but since it has never crashed on me I kinda trust it.
Seems to be some sort of timeout, but I cannot find any settings that controls this.
Any ideas? I want to turn it off.
One strange thing in this context. When I have been autologed-off
my mouse scroll button no longer works.?
I have to log off and restart xserver.
Q2)
Can I script cfdisk or other tool to automate the creation of partitions?
Perhaps Im still too newbee to understand the man pages completely.
I want to have a script that creates the partitions and install knoppix.
Q3)
How do I uninstall things?
Say I wanted to strip my knoppix a bit by uninstalling not used software.
So a partimage file would get smaller.
I am not quite sure what tool, I would use. Perhaps some deb tool.
Maybe I should not be looking for something saying Add/remove programs...:)
Q4)
I have a harddisk with knoppix on. It was installed on a singledisk system.
Now I want to use it as hd2 on the slave controller. The first disk is a xp system.
I know I have to tell it that its no longer hda and change where it boots from,
but I am clueless what files that involves and if I should use lilo for it.
I dont need dualboot ie a menu since I just can choose the hd to boot from so I just
need to make knoppix understand that its now on the slave controller and not the maindisk anymore.
Thanks for your patience with people like me.