Help! I am new to Knoppix

[tombell]

Hello I am new to Knoppix and Linux too. I am totaly confused and frustrated. Not with Knoppix but with myself. I need a place to learn how to do things with knoppix IE down load an app and then actualy install it or play a dvd ect.

[Clinton]

tombell, there's isn't any training school or ebook that I know of. The best way would be to start by reading the documentation - link at the top of this page - and then using the forum search feature to find previous threads discussing problems you've come across that have been resolved in the past.

[OErjan]

as for installing, open synaptic, that is, open a console and type
sudo synaptic
then update library and search in the window, say you want a Audio mixer, search mixer (chances are that one is available) then right click on the check box and choose install. then apply the change. not that hard.

[ndb]

You should also tell us what version of knoppix you have, and if it's CD or DVD. I only have CD myself, as I have no DVD-ROM drive, but I understand (if I'm not mistaken) that the DVD version allows you to create a USB version, which you can use to create a persistent image, i.e. you can install software and keep it for the next time you boot knoppix.

[OErjan]

ndb, I think the 6.2 CD version has that option, I did that a week ago to help rescue files from a friends computer (old laptop), also created a 2G FAT32 partition for the files at first boot with said USBstick.

[meanpt]

Hi, I[m also new to this and opted firsst to learn virtual box. Since then I installed preetty many distros and have been learning with it without any fear of damaging a machine.