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eadz
05-03-2004, 10:48 PM
It appears version 3.4 has been released.

* V3.4-2004-05-03 (experimental)
- switched from syslinux to isolinux (no emulation) boot method
- Kernel 2.4.26 (default) and Kernel 2.6.5 (as boot option)
with ACPI enabled (use knoppix acpi=off in case of problems,
knoppix26 to try Kernel 2.6)
- New wireless drivers for: ipw2100 ("Centrino"(TM)), madwifi, hostap
- captive-ntfs installer
- live-installer by Fabian Franz
- KDE 3.2.2
- kdevelop3
- OpenOffice 1.1.1 (german and english)
- gimp 2.0
- Had to remove the entire latex system (101MB) because of space reasons
- Removed KOffice for the same reason
- /dev/modem setup tool supporting serial, USB, bluetooth and irda devices
- gprs connection tool
- lots of improvements in the hardware detection and new boot options, please
check knoppix-cheatcodes.txt.


Download using bittorrent, tracker at http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de:6969/
Remember: Leave your bittorrent client running after the download is finished!

Knopper.net is down on port 80, but https still works. If you are having trouble downloading, try this list of mirrors :

https://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/?lang=en

or you can get knoppix sent to you on cd from these vendors :

https://www.knopper.net/knoppix-vendors/index-new-en.php

eadz
05-03-2004, 10:57 PM
No official announcement yet, but it will be coming.

eadz
05-04-2004, 12:16 AM
Knoppix 3.4 packages list (http://www.knoppix.net/knoppix-3.4/packages.txt)
Knoppix 3.4 cheatcodes (http://www.knoppix.net/knoppix-3.4/knoppix-cheatcodes.txt)
md5sum : 49a62cdac7a3afcee0d2d47ea17daa6f

Crusader
05-04-2004, 12:17 AM
Oooh, wonderful!
Downloading torrent now...

A. Jorge Garcia
05-04-2004, 12:21 AM
Finally! Thank God!

Just one question: when using bittorrent, where do I get the md5sum file?

TIA,
AJG

resistance
05-04-2004, 12:26 AM
this BT is a folder
inside you will get :
KNOPPIX-CHANGELOG.txt
knoppix-cheatcodes.txt
KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso
KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso.md5
KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso.md5.asc
packages.txt
txt.txt

Stephen
05-04-2004, 12:45 AM
Finally! Thank God!

Just one question: when using bittorrent, where do I get the md5sum file?

TIA,
AJG

Everything is usually included in the download directory that is created when you run the BT client. If you have a firewall running make sure that you open/forward the ports 6881,6882,6883,6884,6885,6886,6887,6888,6889 or your download speed will suck.

rduke15
05-04-2004, 12:48 AM
This is certainly great news, but the cheatcodes don't mention how to disable that embarrassing voice during boot and shutdown. Or did that lady follow Koffice?

A. Jorge Garcia
05-04-2004, 12:53 AM
Yeah, my d/l rate is rotten (80 KB/s). How do I improve this? I tried using btlaunchmany once before (recently for overclockix) and had a much faster rate.

Is it just bogged-down because everyone is using it right now? I thought the whole idea behind bittorrent was efficiency increased as the number of clients....

BTW, what does the following mean?

./KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN: Spd: 87.6 KB/19.2 KB Tot: 63.2 MB/45.0 MB [4:09:56 6%]

Does this really mean what I think it does? Is it that I'm only getting 87.6KB/s and have received only 63.2MB of the file and have to wait over 4 hours to finish at this rate? Tell me I'm reading this wrong!

TIA,
AJG

resistance
05-04-2004, 12:56 AM
http://down
for next 3hours

my direct UPs is more than BT
direct >>100- 1MB/s
BT>> no more 100KB/s

A. Jorge Garcia
05-04-2004, 01:15 AM
A lot of people must be using

http://220.108.103.85:8001

as I'm only getting 12KB/s! So forget 3 hours, it will take 20!

What kind of bandwidth do you have?

TIA,
AJG

resistance
05-04-2004, 01:21 AM
i'm runing BT at console too uping 60KB/s right now
& this public share is uping 300KB/s
(7 connections)


CD burned few seconds ago..... i can't wait more time... :P


hey guys we have 17 seeders at moment, stopping BT now !
the public share stay running!

resistance
05-04-2004, 02:28 AM
i'm setting up another machine to run public share....homelan

220.108.xxxxxx going down to hdinstall, resume at:

http://21xxxxxxx


people is logging there,...218.4xxxxxx
get out 220.xxxxxxxxxx by yourself :lol:


Time Over....................

iwod
05-04-2004, 02:55 AM
thx............ is other FTP / mirror going to be updated with the same ISO as well? Coz my bt is dl @ 1kbps.

kovk
05-04-2004, 03:13 AM
Ok so I've downloaded 3.4 and did a hard drive install after booting with the knoppix26 option. a uname -r reveals that I'm still using the old 2.4.26 kernel, why wasn't the new kernel installed? More importantly, how do I install it again with the new kernel?

Thanks to all of you developers for all your hard work, you guys rock.

resistance
05-04-2004, 04:14 AM
mine is fine

when boot from CD used cheatcde "knoppix26" ?

spiritwing
05-04-2004, 05:04 AM
FYI downloads are slow because:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/03/2244203&mode=thread&tid=106&tid=185&tid=190&tid=90

That didn't take long! Come on peoples, let all the people who have been patiently reading the forums for the release to get the CD before releasing the Slashdot Hordes upon the torrent.


;0)
Silas

aay
05-04-2004, 05:16 AM
FYI downloads are slow because:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/03/2244203&mode=thread&tid=106&tid=185&tid=190&tid=90

That didn't take long! Come on peoples, let all the people who have been patiently reading the forums for the release to get the CD before releasing the Slashdot Hordes upon the torrent.


;0)
Silas

Yes I saw that too. Looks like the /. hordes are hard at work.

patelbhavesh
05-04-2004, 05:51 AM
Here are the links if you want to download using other p2p networks like edonkey/gnutella/kazaa etc.

Gnutella
magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:HSKNSU6D57XW7A6Y7ID5DWU3BX463I L3&dn=KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso

edonkey
ed2k://|file|KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso|729880576|93356e4d37bf7301cf800fbabcb3e3fc|

Kazaa/grokster/imesh
sig2dat://|File: KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso|Length: 729880576 Bytes, 712774KB|UUHash: =pXEQz/qtyruR10lkr1NSPH+Icpc=|

----------------------------------------------------
Free Software , Free Speech , Free Society
http://bhavesh.freeshell.org

barl0w
05-04-2004, 05:53 AM
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! and THANK YOU!

I am soooo happy that this got included. It is what I've been waiting for. Where do I donate!?

Scott

stonent
05-04-2004, 05:53 AM
I've been downloading for about 2 hours now. I've downloaded 61mb and uploaded 127mb, thats not right :(

kovk
05-04-2004, 06:21 AM
I've tried installing it twice using "knoppix26" to boot, after getting into the live environment I did a uname -a and it indeed said I was running the 2.6.5 kernel. However after using "knoppix-installer" and using the beginner mode hardware detection which is a new addition that redetects all hardware each reboot yet everything else is the same (not a knoppix style install). after booting into my installed system uname -a says I'm using 2.4.26

Could it be that using the beginner mode is messing it up? I might try installing it debian style but I think you get the most flexibiliy from the beginner mode.

I really appreciate all the work the developers have done and the helpfulness of these forums thanks all of you.

NikiBob
05-04-2004, 06:22 AM
ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/knoppix/

Speed : 230 KB/s

spiritwing
05-04-2004, 06:22 AM
I've been downloading for about 2 hours now. I've downloaded 61mb and uploaded 127mb, thats not right I've been downloading for about 2 hours now. I've downloaded 61mb and uploaded 127mb, thats not right I've been downloading for about 2 hours now. I've downloaded 61mb and uploaded 127mb, thats not right :(

Yes it is! Slashdot ( http://slashdot.org ) found out about the release. Look at the number of leachers on the tracker ( 2125 and growing as of this post ). <sarcasm>Good thing there are only 251 seeders!</sarcasm>

;0)
Silas

agent_smith
05-04-2004, 07:37 AM
This is my best Tuesday for quite some time now.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Does anyone know when it will be available at the mirrors? Right now I cannot use bittorent. :( The link already available is literally "infested", and leeches with 4kbps.

So long team - once again, THANK YOU!

Agent Smith

stonent
05-04-2004, 08:19 AM
I wonder if they are using NPTL? If not I'm strongly considering trying to remaster (never done it before)

I don't have the download complete yet, but anyone who does, can you try this:


Aurora root # /lib/libc.so.6
GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.3, by Roland McGrath et al.
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled by GNU CC version 3.3.2 20031218 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r5, propolice-3.3-7).
Compiled on a Linux 2.6.3 system on 2004-03-16.
Available extensions:
GNU libio by Per Bothner
crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
NPTL 0.60 by Ulrich Drepper
BIND-8.2.3-T5B
NIS(YP)/NIS+ NSS modules 0.19 by Thorsten Kukuk
Thread-local storage support included.
Report bugs using the `glibcbug' script to <bugs@gnu.org>.
Aurora root #

If you see NPTL .... then it does. NPTL seems to help quite a bt in the overal performance of Gentoo on my laptop, so I might try to add it in to the 3.4 cd if it doesn't have it.

StyleWarz
05-04-2004, 08:23 AM
ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/knoppix/

Speed : 230 KB/s
Also downloading from this one... ~18.75 kb/s.... Hunting for more mirrors... 8)

SKINUT
05-04-2004, 08:34 AM
I have been getting about 150 KB/s average on the original bittorrent link. Of course it took me about 45mins to figure out how to use BT.

konfused
05-04-2004, 08:55 AM
ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/knoppix/

Speed : 230 KB/s
Also downloading from this one... ~18.75 kb/s.... Hunting for more mirrors... 8)

I was getting about 120 KB/s, but now its really about 30. I'm thinking of going back to BT.

StyleWarz
05-04-2004, 08:59 AM
@konfused
Too bad BT is blokked on my universtiy network... :cry:

max_payne
05-04-2004, 10:14 AM
@konfused
Too bad BT is blokked on my universtiy network... :cry:

Fast download here (http://portal.fsn.hu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5936&mode=nested&order=0&thold=0)

StyleWarz
05-04-2004, 10:51 AM
Fast download here (http://portal.fsn.hu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5936&mode=nested&order=0&thold=0)
Viva Hungary!!!! :D
Thanks a lot m8, this one is fast... wow... ~107.81 kb/s... that's my connec maximum... Great... thanks a lot!!! :D

max_payne
05-04-2004, 11:06 AM
Fast download here (http://portal.fsn.hu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5936&mode=nested&order=0&thold=0)
Viva Hungary!!!! :D
Thanks a lot m8, this one is fast... wow... ~107.81 kb/s... that's my connec maximum... Great... thanks a lot!!! :D

:-)

thomas_fr
05-04-2004, 11:21 AM
..369ks at the moment :-)

Fabianx
05-04-2004, 11:54 AM
I've tried installing it twice using "knoppix26" to boot, after getting into the live environment I did a uname -a and it indeed said I was running the 2.6.5 kernel. However after using "knoppix-installer" and using the beginner mode hardware detection which is a new addition that redetects all hardware each reboot yet everything else is the same (not a knoppix style install). after booting into my installed system uname -a says I'm using 2.4.26

Could it be that using the beginner mode is messing it up? I might try installing it debian style but I think you get the most flexibiliy from the beginner mode.

I really appreciate all the work the developers have done and the helpfulness of these forums thanks all of you.

Well I'm confused.

At boot you should have a lilo boot menu, where you can choose one of the available kernel, which worked for me ...

cu

Fabian

ZeroKun
05-04-2004, 12:54 PM
I finally installed it. I had the iso when i was using the 3.4 remaster and for some reason it froze when i clicked on my cd device to mount it and screwed up my hd (it checked it and said some stuff and i got confused), so i installed 98 downloaded the new 3.4 installed and everything is cool. Hope it doesnt freeze when i try to mount it again......

VirUZI
05-04-2004, 01:05 PM
Not to be a PITA, but where is the source code? I would really like to look at the new GPRS-scripts and the new hardware detection for my own Live-cd ViruX (http://foo.unix.se/virux/) (Shameless plug) and since i only got 56k-modem right now i would rather not download the whole thing. I can't find anything new at http://developer.linuxtag.net/knoppix/sources/, is there a new site for the source or will it be updated soon?

TimWhite
05-04-2004, 07:22 PM
Grabbed the 3.4 iso from planetmirror and the md5sum worked out as:


md5sum KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso
6a418719f9d920804bb0e1b13288f0ea KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso

Checked it against the md5 file:


cat KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso.md5
49a62cdac7a3afcee0d2d47ea17daa6f *KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso

So my question is. Is the .md5 wrong, is my .iso corrupted, or has the iso been tampered with?

What have others seen?
--
TimW

SolarCat
05-04-2004, 07:38 PM
Will there be a boot.img file available somewhere? There wasn't one on the CD. I tried using images from Knoppix 3.3 and the CeBit 3.4 version, and those would boot the overall CD but not all the hardware recognition... If anyone knows where I can get an image file to boot from a floppy, please let me know. Thanks.

at88mph
05-04-2004, 07:47 PM
Has anyone else seen a Segmentation Fault when probing megaraid.o while booting into knoppix26? I'm running a Pentium 4 with an ASUS P4P800 motherboard.

Gracias.

henla464
05-04-2004, 07:57 PM
yes I also got the segmentation fault when trying 2.6

PirataSV
05-04-2004, 08:39 PM
Yeah, I also got sementation fault with megaraid.o, but I used the noscsi option and it worked wonderfully on my desktop. I wasn't so lucky with my laptop as my cd-rom is scsi.

Regards

devilotx
05-04-2004, 09:02 PM
I had an issue where setting a static IP with netcardconfig would reset (!) when the computer was rebooted, restarting the netcardconfig program at each boot and selecting No to DHCP would restore my settings (one step at a time) this was the Topiso Knoppix installed the debian way, hopefully this one won't have the same issue.

Installing on a Gateway lappy with a netgear pcmcia card.

SUOrangeman
05-04-2004, 09:13 PM
> Will there be a boot.img file available somewhere?

With the move to isolinux, I didn't think there will be any more boot floppies.

-SUO

SonGoCHaiN
05-04-2004, 09:14 PM
Yeah, I also got sementation fault with megaraid.o, but I used the noscsi option and it worked wonderfully on my desktop. I wasn't so lucky with my laptop as my cd-rom is scsi.

Regards
I've the same problem to trying to boot with linux26... :( I want to probe the new kernel :roll: Also I've tried linux26 acpi=off
Any idea to resolve this problem?

agent_smith
05-04-2004, 09:15 PM
@konfused
Too bad BT is blokked on my universtiy network... :cry:

Fast download here (http://portal.fsn.hu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5936&mode=nested&order=0&thold=0)

To my surprise, the portal requires user+password to allow download... Any clue why guest+anonymous does not work? Or perhaps a direct FTP link to this source?

Thanks man, :)
Agent Smith

Bernd Blaauw
05-04-2004, 09:23 PM
the command
"knoppix noscsi" (without quotes) causes megaraid.o not to be loaded.

I need to find out how to enable networking.
Knoppix does not seem to find the VMware (AMD PCNET) driver.
in previous KNOPPIX releases, Mozilla could connect to the internet by default.
Now only 127.0.0.1 shows up with "ifconfig" command.

spiff1281
05-04-2004, 09:26 PM
bittorrent sucks...it doesn't work...

the net is sick... :(

come on guys, share it!

spiff1281
05-04-2004, 09:36 PM
ok, downloading from ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN/

pretty fast ~100Kb/s

(max user 530)

wget is makein' me happy :-)

perry
05-04-2004, 09:43 PM
mirror @ 100mbit up at http://paducktions.net/filemgmt/singlefile.php?lid=27

renderedbrian
05-04-2004, 10:02 PM
Neato!

Funilly enough, I bought a 10 pack of 700mb CDRW discs today for when knoppix 3.4 got released. Got home and found it had been released!

Which was nice.

--
Brian

hkfczrqj
05-04-2004, 10:04 PM
mirror @ 100mbit up at http://paducktions.net/filemgmt/singlefile.php?lid=27

nice, thx...

downloading @ 100 kB/s

spiritwing
05-04-2004, 11:05 PM
Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 6:22 pm
Grabbed the 3.4 iso from planetmirror and the md5sum worked out as:
Code:

md5sum KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso
6a418719f9d920804bb0e1b13288f0ea KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso

Checked it against the md5 file:
Code:

cat KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso.md5
49a62cdac7a3afcee0d2d47ea17daa6f *KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso

So my question is. Is the .md5 wrong, is my .iso corrupted, or has the iso been tampered with?

What have others seen?
--
TimW

Yes it looks as though you have a corrupt or tampered with ISO. Mine checks out ok. I get 49a62cdac7a3afcee0d2d47ea17daa6f for the ISO and the burnt CD. I would download the ISO agian with bittorrent.

Cheers,
Silas

=0)

TimWhite
05-04-2004, 11:36 PM
Cheers Silas

--
TimW

Crusader
05-04-2004, 11:38 PM
I don't know what's up with the official tracker. I downloaded and left my torrent open all night at 16 people/ 128kb/sec max, and when I woke up there were tons of people leeching and I was sending 1kb/sec to perhaps 3 of them (and never to some poor soul who was stuck at 99.9% done for at least two hours...) I'm behind a firewall, but I was sharing like crazy last night.

patik
05-04-2004, 11:50 PM
10Mbps mirror

http://128.113.197.247/pub/KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN/

Runs 9am-12am EST

Wackjabbit
05-05-2004, 06:24 AM
just wondering if there will be a DVD version of this coming out at any time? As you can see there have been many people offering to host the iso and also Bittorent could handle it I think.

GREAT WORK by the way!

TyphoonMentat
05-05-2004, 06:54 AM
One question about boot floppies - if there's no longer a boot floppy, how do those people who do remasters boot their remasters off the hard drive, thus saving many CDs?
Also, will a boot floppy ever be available for older machines?

bfree
05-05-2004, 07:24 AM
One question about boot floppies - if there's no longer a boot floppy, how do those people who do remasters boot their remasters off the hard drive, thus saving many CDs?
Also, will a boot floppy ever be available for older machines?
Two things come to mind. First is fromhd which will let you boot your cloop file from the hard disk. Second is that you could setup syslinux (I havn't done it yet) so you can boot from hard disk, pretty much identically as from syslinux on cd. Third choice (I know I said two) is to use a cd-rw and just swap in a 0 byte KNOPPIX file and use fromhd (when you are changing the stuff outside the cloop).

linuxfan
05-05-2004, 07:25 AM
One question about boot floppies - if there's no longer a boot floppy, how do those people who do remasters boot their remasters off the hard drive, thus saving many CDs?
Also, will a boot floppy ever be available for older machines?
As 3.4 provides cheatcodes for specifying the KNOPPIX compressed file to load, also for an .iso to boot from, this would not be a problem. Boot from the original and pass the parameters to go. Err, boot floppies would be nice to boot textmode some older stuff btw...

max_payne
05-05-2004, 07:33 AM
@konfused
Too bad BT is blokked on my universtiy network... :cry:

Fast download here (http://portal.fsn.hu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5936&mode=nested&order=0&thold=0)

To my surprise, the portal requires user+password to allow download... Any clue why guest+anonymous does not work? Or perhaps a direct FTP link to this source?

Thanks man, :)
Agent Smith

We was under heavy attack :-) (too many simultaneous connection)

BTW: currently no require user/pass for download until the server's responsiveness is fine

linuxfan
05-05-2004, 07:36 AM
@konfused
Too bad BT is blokked on my universtiy network... :cry:

Fast download here (http://portal.fsn.hu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5936&mode=nested&order=0&thold=0)

To my surprise, the portal requires user+password to allow download... Any clue why guest+anonymous does not work? Or perhaps a direct FTP link to this source?

Thanks man, :)
Agent Smith
As the owner of that site wrote (in Hungarian): Web server reached its max_client limit, so he password-protected that dir. Ask for a pass at hup dot hu. Mail user trey. (U can put the mail address up, yeah? Split for the sake of email-gathering robots.) Requests will be served in chronological order according to the actual load.

sikah2000
05-05-2004, 08:10 AM
I have a little problem... I just downloaded the Knoppix 3.4 and I usually test it in VmWare. But it seems to get stuck right after I hit enter at Boot:.

Anyone can help me? I am using VmWare 4.5.1 Buld 7568.

Thanks for any help.

sikah2000
05-05-2004, 08:27 AM
It doesn't work :cry:
I also tried knoppix noscsi but nothing... I just burned it and still doesn't work.

Help...

Sendak
05-05-2004, 08:50 AM
Since there are still few mirrors with 3.4 and BitTorrent seems to have died here are two good mirrors:

ftp://ftp.quicknet.nl/pub/Linux/ftp.knoppix.org/

http://dsbl.zonnet.nl/KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN/

Stephen
05-05-2004, 09:35 AM
There is a torrent working here.

http://www.tlm-project.org/torrents/knoppix/3.4/

perry
05-05-2004, 09:44 AM
http://paducktions.net/filemgmt/singlefile.php?lid=27 is still up :D

---

Gerhard "Miserable Failure" (http://gerhard.paducktions.net/) Duesten

ZeroKun
05-05-2004, 11:11 AM
I had that one thing with the 2.6 kernel, but it doesnt happen when i boot from my hd. So far so good, only wish syphleed was preinstalled.

charlesfan
05-05-2004, 11:38 AM
I've found some bugs in Knoppix 3.4 20040503

1. I have to boot with "noscsi" parameter under my old notebook (celeorn w/ Intel 440 chipset) and another desktop PC (P-III w/ Intel 815 chipset)

2. the same "time zone bug" in the C'T edition as well as knoppix 3.3 2003-02-09 is back again.

3. the XHTML editior display germany on the english edition

but there's also good news, the new Knoppix 3.4 now can detect my Buffalo LPC3-TX-CB PCMCIA lancard (which didn't work with the C'T edition before)

* how do I report a bug ? I didn't have any bugzilla account............ :roll:

Fabianx
05-05-2004, 11:57 AM
I've found some bugs in Knoppix 3.4 20040503

1. I have to boot with "noscsi" parameter under my old notebook (celeorn w/ Intel 440 chipset) and another desktop PC (P-III w/ Intel 815 chipset)

2. the same "time zone bug" in the C'T edition as well as knoppix 3.3 2003-02-09 is back again.

3. the XHTML editior display germany on the english edition

but there's also good news, the new Knoppix 3.4 now can detect my Buffalo LPC3-TX-CB PCMCIA lancard (which didn't work with the C'T edition before)

* how do I report a bug ? I didn't have any bugzilla account............ :roll:

http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/Bugs/3.4

I did add your bugs to there and did respond ...

I think the Wiki is nicer for doin with Bugs I found bugzilla was an overkill and made more work, than it solved ...

cu

Fabian

tx
05-05-2004, 12:14 PM
Well-seeded torrents on a dedicated tracker:

http://tracker.tx.se/KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-DE.torrent
http://tracker.tx.se/KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.torrent (first release)
http://tracker.tx.se/KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.2.torrent (second release)

See http://tracker.tx.se/ for info.

.-tx

charlesfan
05-05-2004, 12:19 PM
http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/Bugs/3.4

I did add your bugs to there and did respond ...

I think the Wiki is nicer for doin with Bugs I found bugzilla was an overkill and made more work, than it solved ...

cu

Fabian

Thankyou Fabian :oops:

I was in hong kong and was not possible to get a hand on the 3.4 CeBit edition before :roll:

and too bad I didn't know how to fix those bugs,

here is the previous time zone bug solution from Tim Pope

(which already applied on knoppix v3.3-20040216)

http://mailman.linuxtag.org/pipermail/debian-knoppix/2003-December/004288.html

charlesfan
05-05-2004, 12:38 PM
well also with the "Resize and Rotate" 0.5 on the lower right conner Under KDE,
it's great but if you choose to switch to a smaller screen size (let's say 1024x768 to 800 x600)

you won't see the KDE Panel (the button bar) again...

should I consider this another bug ?

(I have to press <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <Backspace> to kill X)
(but ofcouse, I could still press <Alt> + <F1> to get the Application Menu)

also problem when using Java applet to communicate, you couldn't login using ICQ2GO
(http://go.icq.com) as in Knoppix 3.4 C'T edition

* well but we still have Gaim

hmm now I should get a Bugzilla account.. :twisted:

charlesfan
05-05-2004, 03:10 PM
hi guys, It's me again,

Actually I was thinking If we could have another Knoppix 3.4 in the short comming future, could we have apache 2 ?

Since Linux Kernel 2.6 features NPTL which will provide a Unix standard library for Multi-threading, should also use with the upgraded Multi-threaded Apached 2

guys, how's that ? :D

eadz
05-05-2004, 03:28 PM
http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/Bugs/3.4

I did add your bugs to there and did respond ...

I think the Wiki is nicer for doin with Bugs I found bugzilla was an overkill and made more work, than it solved ...

Fabian

I think you are right.. not only that but becasue of the perl it brings down the server. I have redirected /bugs/ to the wiki page from now on.

kakakoka
05-05-2004, 03:35 PM
As im new to bt, im wondering, how can I make sure that the version of knoppix I got is the original and hasnt been tampered with? Is there a place to get the official md5 hash or something?

hkfczrqj
05-05-2004, 04:16 PM
As im new to bt, im wondering, how can I make sure that the version of knoppix I got is the original and hasnt been tampered with? Is there a place to get the official md5 hash or something?

Altough I'm just speculating, the Kaiserslautern 'mirror' (is it a mirror?) might be a trusted place to look for the mds:

8e9cd4d310ad8381d1ec3326c6caae2b *KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso

Damn, It's not the one I have :(...
Wait... My copy has:

49a62cdac7a3afcee0d2d47ea17daa6f KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso

Which is the one published in this thread. What's going on here?

Jack_
05-05-2004, 04:33 PM
I have the 49a... one as well

DLed from:

ftp://ftp.quicknet.nl/pub/Linux/ftp.knoppix.org/KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso

and the site md5 matches it.

kakakoka
05-05-2004, 04:50 PM
Which utility can I use under windows to check out md5 sums?

eadz
05-05-2004, 05:12 PM
Which utility can I use under windows to check out md5 sums?

http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/FaqDownloading

ruymbeke
05-05-2004, 05:32 PM
http://www.etree.org/md5com.html

kakakoka
05-05-2004, 05:59 PM
I get :

ef6883b0bd74f70100dac1749344c46a *KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN_badmd5sum/KNOPPIX-CHANGELOG.txt
8cdceb2e1522117e15ea80b9e63f36ae *KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN_badmd5sum/knoppix-cheatcodes.txt
fb40d29d65ad955a3d4b259f32d16d65 *KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN_badmd5sum/KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso
21edcc6d299855c18afa5ee6b7cb734c *KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN_badmd5sum/KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso.md5
66fc767b0a0008b16aca58a542499963 *KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN_badmd5sum/KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso.md5.asc
a51bce710ac5ae0ca258345b3d99789b *KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN_badmd5sum/packages.txt

Should I re-download it from elsewhere? I got this one from tracker.tx.se. Could tx comment on this? Can anybody else recommend a different bt?

eadz
05-05-2004, 06:06 PM
kakakoka - what is in the file

KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN_badmd5sum/KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso.md5 ?

What is in it should match the md5sum of
KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN_badmd5sum/KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso

If not, then it's a bad download.

kakakoka
05-05-2004, 06:10 PM
In the .md5 file there is

49a62cdac7a3afcee0d2d47ea17daa6f *KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso

so I guess I got a bad download.

Can anyone suggest a bt location which will work better?

eadz
05-05-2004, 06:18 PM
In the .md5 file there is

49a62cdac7a3afcee0d2d47ea17daa6f *KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso

so I guess I got a bad download.

Can anyone suggest a bt location which will work better?

Is there something wrong with the official one? http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de:6969/

kakakoka
05-05-2004, 06:25 PM
I tried it an hour ago but it seemed dead (no download for 15 minutes or so).

Ill give it another shot.

Sigmatador
05-05-2004, 07:02 PM
i d/led the iso file with all server posted here, and i get the right md5sum.

TimWhite
05-05-2004, 07:14 PM
Second time lucky on the first mirror posted gave me the 49a md5sum (which is the one in the .md5). I guess the load the servers are under caused the corruption.
--
TimW

darrylo
05-05-2004, 08:02 PM
There are at least two versions of 3.4. The two signatures that I've seen appear to have been released by Klaus. However, I have no idea why both are identically labeled: "V3.4-2004-05-04".

One has the signature 49a62cdac7a3afcee0d2d47ea17daa6f. This version was signed:


gpg: Signature made Mon May 3 14:28:49 2004 PDT using RSA key ID BA8F038D
gpg: Good signature from "Klaus Knopper <knopper@linuxtag.org>"
gpg: aka "Klaus Knopper <knopper@linuxtag.de>"


Another version has the signature 8e9cd4d310ad8381d1ec3326c6caae2b. This version was signed:


gpg: Signature made Tue May 4 15:07:09 2004 PDT using RSA key ID BA8F038D
gpg: Good signature from "Klaus Knopper <knopper@linuxtag.org>"
gpg: aka "Klaus Knopper <knopper@linuxtag.de>"


So, it appears that the later one is probably the one that people want.

zentu
05-05-2004, 09:48 PM
If you have a problem, but are able to use the BT do it, since part of BT uses MD5sums, so you really don't need to check it. Still do though, it only takes a few minutes at most, and it verifies that the file is accurate.

P.s. if you DL it from a location not listed by knoppix, you should DL the md5sum from a verified server, or ask for it on the forums, that way you aren't DL something that is malware. I do this whenevery I am unsure about the source, and I want to save the main site some bandwith...


P.s. anyone else having problems with 2.6 and an Nforce2 chipset?

ruymbeke
05-05-2004, 10:41 PM
There are at least two versions of 3.4. The two signatures that I've seen appear to have been released by Klaus. ...
So, it appears that the later one is probably the one that people want.

1) What is the difference ?
2) Where can I dowloand the latest ?
3) Any newer release availabale/planned ?

Thanks, Gilles

TimWhite
05-05-2004, 10:46 PM
Dunno about nForce, but I get a kernel panic trying to boot the 2.6 kernel on my Thinkpad 600.

PsaltyDS
05-05-2004, 11:44 PM
There are at least two versions of 3.4. The two signatures that I've seen appear to have been released by Klaus. However, I have no idea why both are identically labeled: "V3.4-2004-05-04".

One has the signature 49a62cdac7a3afcee0d2d47ea17daa6f. This version was signed:


gpg: Signature made Mon May 3 14:28:49 2004 PDT using RSA key ID BA8F038D
gpg: Good signature from "Klaus Knopper <knopper@linuxtag.org>"
gpg: aka "Klaus Knopper <knopper@linuxtag.de>"


Another version has the signature 8e9cd4d310ad8381d1ec3326c6caae2b. This version was signed:


gpg: Signature made Tue May 4 15:07:09 2004 PDT using RSA key ID BA8F038D
gpg: Good signature from "Klaus Knopper <knopper@linuxtag.org>"
gpg: aka "Klaus Knopper <knopper@linuxtag.de>"


So, it appears that the later one is probably the one that people want.

I downloaded the "...aa6f" version myself. Should I be concerned and trying to fing the "...ae2b" version instead? This seems very odd. :?

Neo-Rio
05-06-2004, 01:42 AM
I'm having trouble getting Knoppix working flawlessly on my desktop.

Thing is, I have one of these new fangled ASUS motherboards which is currently has both a SCSI card and is using the built in SATA RAID (two drives).

Booting in with the 2.4 kernel is fine, except that while my system detects my Creative Audigy 2 card, there is NO SOUND.

Trying to boot in with the 2.6 kernel, first off the SCSI detection tries going for the megaraid.o, then has a segmentation fault and then crashes (Much like some of the others have complained of). Now, even when I issue "knoppix noscsi", it skips SCSI detection and goes for the RAID driver. However, when It gets to setting /etc/fstab.... the installer crahes.

I'm pretty sure the problem lies within the RAID on my mobo. In the Linux kernel, these ASUS mobos with RAID really don't get handled well, if at all, and especially if they are formatted for use under Windows.
Similarly, Fedora doesn't work on my system either thanks to the Sil driver. Alan Cox calls these things "winraid" and as such, Linux doesn't support them yet (if at all).
I just wish there was an option to skip detection of the sata RAID.

Abehome
05-06-2004, 02:01 AM
There are at least two versions of 3.4. The two signatures that I've seen appear to have been released by Klaus. However, I have no idea why both are identically labeled: "V3.4-2004-05-04".

One has the signature 49a62cdac7a3afcee0d2d47ea17daa6f. This version was signed:


gpg: Signature made Mon May 3 14:28:49 2004 PDT using RSA key ID BA8F038D
gpg: Good signature from "Klaus Knopper <knopper@linuxtag.org>"
gpg: aka "Klaus Knopper <knopper@linuxtag.de>"


Another version has the signature 8e9cd4d310ad8381d1ec3326c6caae2b. This version was signed:


gpg: Signature made Tue May 4 15:07:09 2004 PDT using RSA key ID BA8F038D
gpg: Good signature from "Klaus Knopper <knopper@linuxtag.org>"
gpg: aka "Klaus Knopper <knopper@linuxtag.de>"


So, it appears that the later one is probably the one that people want.

I downloaded the "...aa6f" version myself. Should I be concerned and trying to fing the "...ae2b" version instead? This seems very odd. :?
I just downloaded the latest Knoppix version (...ae2b) from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/knoppix/ which is a Knoppix mirror.
I have cable and was getting between 100-370KB/s using Konqi.
I think the mirrors are getting populated with this version.

darrylo
05-06-2004, 02:41 AM
There are at least two versions of 3.4. The two signatures that I've seen appear to have been released by Klaus. However, I have no idea why both are identically labeled: "V3.4-2004-05-04".

One has the signature 49a62cdac7a3afcee0d2d47ea17daa6f. This version was signed:


gpg: Signature made Mon May 3 14:28:49 2004 PDT using RSA key ID BA8F038D
gpg: Good signature from "Klaus Knopper <knopper@linuxtag.org>"
gpg: aka "Klaus Knopper <knopper@linuxtag.de>"


Another version has the signature 8e9cd4d310ad8381d1ec3326c6caae2b. This version was signed:


gpg: Signature made Tue May 4 15:07:09 2004 PDT using RSA key ID BA8F038D
gpg: Good signature from "Klaus Knopper <knopper@linuxtag.org>"
gpg: aka "Klaus Knopper <knopper@linuxtag.de>"


So, it appears that the later one is probably the one that people want.

I downloaded the "...aa6f" version myself. Should I be concerned and trying to fing the "...ae2b" version instead? This seems very odd. :?

My guess is that the 49a62cdac7a3afcee0d2d47ea17daa6f one is probably an early release candidate (or Klaus noticed a mistake, and fixed it in the later one). So, we probably do want the 8e9cd4d310ad8381d1ec3326c6caae2b one (the later one), just in case. It appears to be made around a day later than the earlier one. However, I have no idea as to what the differences are.

renderedbrian
05-06-2004, 07:22 AM
My guess is that the 49a62cdac7a3afcee0d2d47ea17daa6f one is probably an early release candidate (or Klaus noticed a mistake, and fixed it in the later one). So, we probably do want the 8e9cd4d310ad8381d1ec3326c6caae2b one (the later one), just in case. It appears to be made around a day later than the earlier one. However, I have no idea as to what the differences are.

Hmm, in that case I'll download the newer version while I'm at work. I wouldn't have know there was a newer version!

Downloading from ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/
60.4KB/s (not bad for 576k adsl)

--
brian

madoka
05-06-2004, 09:23 AM
My guess is that the 49a62cdac7a3afcee0d2d47ea17daa6f one is probably an early release candidate (or Klaus noticed a mistake, and fixed it in the later one). So, we probably do want the 8e9cd4d310ad8381d1ec3326c6caae2b one (the later one), just in case. It appears to be made around a day later than the earlier one. However, I have no idea as to what the differences are.

The following files are different:

\KNOPPIX\md5sums
\boot\isolinux\f2
\boot\isolinux\f3

It's obvious why the first file changed, but I don't know what the other two files do.

abittner
05-06-2004, 10:15 AM
dont worry, only the help page in the isolinux bootloader/cheat-code screen has been modified. the text still showed knoppix 3.3.

be sure to read the knoppix mailinglists to get max information

http://mailman.linuxtag.org/pipermail/debian-knoppix/2004-May/005132.html

if u got the first knoppix 3.4 iso from some days ago, thats just fine, nothing to worry about.

no need for more net traffic congestion :)

thats also why the isolinux files f2 and f3 are different like madoka said before.

Snow
05-06-2004, 12:34 PM
Whats up with the knoppix.com sight. It has been down for days. Any ideas as to when it might be coming back up.

rangerelf
05-06-2004, 03:16 PM
Is anybody planning on remastering 3.4, taking out the 2.4 kernel and putting in KOffice and TeX?

I know, it's the exact reverse of Knopper's decisions, but I like KOffice and TeX, and don't see much benefit in having two kernels.

-gus

j.drake
05-06-2004, 03:45 PM
Is anybody planning on remastering 3.4, taking out the 2.4 kernel and putting in KOffice and TeX?

I know, it's the exact reverse of Knopper's decisions, but I like KOffice and TeX, and don't see much benefit in having two kernels.

-gus

May be premature. Much as I want to go straight to 2.6 and leave 2.4 behind, kernel 2.6 has been giving me and a number of other users problems, and I'm not willing to rely upon it. Meanwhile, v.3.4 with the 2.4 kernel is the closest thing to flawless that I've ever seen. It's easy for me to mess about with 2.6, because I'm just playing now. But I wouldn't even THINK of doing a HD install of Knoppix 3.4 with the 2.6 kernel, even just for fun, until it works a little better, and there is NO WAY that I would be willing to rely upon it for anything important yet. Many people rely on these distributions for very important things in their lives, and while I would trust 3.4/2.4 with the very most important things in my life, I'd sooner rely on WinMe than Knoppix 3.4/2.6. Hopefully, the bugs will be resolved soon, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a new release before the end of May. Once 2.6 proves to work as reliably as 2.4, then I wouldn't be surprised to see the 2.4 kernel come out. Of course that doesn't mean that your apps will be replaced, necessarily - I'm betting that the freed space will be either reserved for expansion (to delay the necessity of DVD distribution) or allocated to a non-redundant app. But, hey, whaddoIknow??

eadz
05-06-2004, 03:54 PM
For those wondering about md5 sums. There were 2 released versions. One was released prematurely and has knoppix 3.3 in the boot loader.

apart from that they are the same. The 2 valid md5sums are :
8e9cd4d310ad8381d1ec3326c6caae2b <-- newest
and
49a62cdac7a3afcee0d2d47ea17daa6f <-- older with wrong version number

http://mailman.linuxtag.org/pipermail/debian-knoppix/2004-May/005138.html

SUOrangeman
05-06-2004, 04:36 PM
I think the main torrent contains to the "old" ISO. Any chance that it would be updated?

-SUO

Sivananda
05-06-2004, 04:53 PM
I think the main torrent contains to the "old" ISO. Any chance that it would be updated?


Well, I've been trying to seed a torrent of the newer iso, but I can't seem to get the built-in tracker in Azureus (my BT client) working properly. If anyone has a tracker they'd be willing to let me post the torrent to I'll give that a try.

I only have a DSL connection however, and if it hogs too much bandwidth I'll need to kill it after a few hours, so please keep your BT clients open to help reseed!

EDIT: Ok, I THINK I have this setup right if anyone wants to give it a shot...

http://sivanandas.homeip.net:6969/

I've got the tracker passworded. Username is 'knoppix', password is 'netforum' (no quotes).

btw this is actually a folder with the iso, md5sum, cheatcodes etc...

Hope it works. This is my first attempt at hosting a torrent... :? :lol:

vulcanidiot
05-06-2004, 05:05 PM
Re: Upgrading

ID10T error: insufficient knowledge for upgrade

I just downloaded and did a hdinstall about a week ago of 3.3.
Now, wanting to be current, I want to "upgrade" to 3.4. Do I need to just blowaway existing 3.3 on the hard disk and do a fresh install or is there an upgrade script of some kind. I would love to just upgrade/repair/replace/etc whatever the changes are, but didn't know if this was possible.

Thanks for helping the idiot

:)

Fabianx
05-06-2004, 06:21 PM
well also with the "Resize and Rotate" 0.5 on the lower right conner Under KDE,
it's great but if you choose to switch to a smaller screen size (let's say 1024x768 to 800 x600)

you won't see the KDE Panel (the button bar) again...

should I consider this another bug ?


Well as it works under SuSE (confirmed myself) well yes we should consider it a bug ...

But I dunno how they do it ...

Perhaps I will have some contact to them soon, so I caould then ask ... :)

cu

Fabian

PS: Please add it to the Docs/Bugs/3.4

chrisb
05-06-2004, 10:35 PM
But I wouldn't even THINK of doing a HD install of Knoppix 3.4 with the 2.6 kernel, even just for fun, until it works a little better, and there is NO WAY that I would be willing to rely upon it for anything important yet.

The HD install includes both 2.4 and 2.6 and defaults to 2.4.

I installed it today on a new Dell laptop and changed the default to 2.6 to get more hardware recognised: there are good reasons for using 2.6!

c_cinq
05-06-2004, 11:30 PM
i just downloaded the iso from ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/

thanks.

RogersPL
05-07-2004, 01:14 AM
[snip]

EDIT: Ok, I THINK I have this setup right if anyone wants to give it a shot...

http://sivanandas.homeip.net:6969/

I've got the tracker passworded. Username is 'knoppix', password is 'netforum' (no quotes).

btw this is actually a folder with the iso, md5sum, cheatcodes etc...

Hope it works. This is my first attempt at hosting a torrent... :? :lol:

Didn't work for me. I now have 700MB of 0x00's. I'd be willing to try again.

ruymbeke
05-07-2004, 02:05 AM
[snip]

EDIT: Ok, I THINK I have this setup right if anyone wants to give it a shot...

http://sivanandas.homeip.net:6969/

I've got the tracker passworded. Username is 'knoppix', password is 'netforum' (no quotes).

btw this is actually a folder with the iso, md5sum, cheatcodes etc...

Hope it works. This is my first attempt at hosting a torrent... :? :lol:

Didn't work for me. I now have 700MB of 0x00's. I'd be willing to try again.

Same for me ...

sklynn
05-07-2004, 02:19 AM
Having problems getting to the buy web sites..

Sivananda
05-07-2004, 02:19 AM
Didn't work for me. I now have 700MB of 0x00's. I'd be willing to try again.

Well THAT certainly sucks. I'm very sorry if it's a problem on my end. :oops: Unfortunately if it is I have no idea what the trouble might be. I haven't burned a copy of the image yet, as I'm out of media at the moment, but I did mount it to my local filesystem and everything appears to be intact.

Anybody familiar with the Azureus BT client and know what, if anything, I might be missing?

oscar
05-07-2004, 03:50 AM
kernel 2.6 still has no support for serial mouse :(

charlesfan
05-07-2004, 05:07 AM
Well as it works under SuSE (confirmed myself) well yes we should consider it a bug ...

But I dunno how they do it ...

Perhaps I will have some contact to them soon, so I caould then ask ... :)

cu

Fabian

PS: Please add it to the Docs/Bugs/3.4

Thanks Fabian, I've already added it there, BTW, I've found more bugs when doing a HD-INSTALL with the new knoppix-installer :D I'll post it there too.

I did my harddisk installation by booting with kernel 2.6 using the "fromhd=" parameter
1. during installation, there were some file missing error (some .mozilla configuration files)
2. after installation, it won't boot
3. after trying to manually modify lilo.conf I found that it boots with lang=de on a english knoppix by default.
4. lilo won't run and saids that the partition table is different compare to "/proc/partitions"

* I might do another hd-install again by booting kernel 2.4.26 later... now I have to catch up with my school course schedules :? my course professors are unhappy with my the results with previous course assignments.

cu Charles from Hong Kong :D

patik
05-07-2004, 06:19 AM
Now posting to alt.binaries.warez.linux

timread
05-07-2004, 08:38 AM
I have installed knoppix 3.4 to my hard disk and am now trying to install VMWare but it informs me that:

Your kernel was built with "gcc" version "2.95.4", while you are trying to use
"/usr/bin/gcc" version "3.3.3". This configuration is not supported and VMware
Workstation cannot work in such configuration. Please either recompile your
kernel with "/usr/bin/gcc" version "3.3.3", or restart /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
with CC environment variable pointing to the "gcc" version "2.95.4".

How comes the gcc version is different from the version used to compile the kernal? Can I do anything to solve this? Is it possible to install gcc 2.9.5 and not have problems.

Thanks,

Tim

Stephen
05-07-2004, 08:51 AM
How comes the gcc version is different from the version used to compile the kernal?


That is the current version in Sarge/testing thus it is installed and a lot of people still compile their kernels with the older version of gcc as does Klaus.


Can I do anything to solve this?


ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-2.95 /usr/bin/gcc as root should do it.



Is it possible to install gcc 2.9.5 and not have problems.


It is already installed and yes it works with no problems except for the symbolic link with some software.



Thanks,

Tim

Your welcome.

cron1
05-07-2004, 01:10 PM
Hello!

I started knoppix with the 2.6 kernel on my labtop
(the ct' editions 2.6 didn't load). As reported by others I got
a scsi-error and a segfault. Loaded with option "knoppix noscsi" and worked.

Started knoppix-installer in debian-mode and rebooted.
"uname -a" showed the 2.4 kernel again.
However the knoppix-installer configured /etc/lilo.conf
with boot options for the 2.4 and 2.6.5 kernels.

I opend lilo.conf and looked for the entry /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5
which has:
append="ramdisk_size=100000 ... ... ... "
changed it to
append="ramdisk_size=100000 ... ... ... noscsi"

now I run "lilo" and rebooted.
Nice lilo boot-menu, now I can choose the 2.4 kernel or the
2.6.5 kernel.

Stephan

scottknl
05-07-2004, 04:31 PM
I used the following command to set gcc to version 2.9.5.
export CC=/usr/bin/gcc2.95

Then just run the vmware install.

When installing vmware with the knoppix 3.4 version note that kernel headers are required to compile the video driver module. The new version of knoppix only contains kernel headers for the 2.4.26 kernel and not for the 2.6.5 kernel. You will have to boot from the 2.4.26 kernel in order to finish the vmware install.

I've had a problem with 2.6.5 kernel starting in VMware (knoppix26 nobootscsi) and then once the desktop comes up, the keyboard doesn't respond. Hitting Shift-Insert seems to cure it.

I just wanted to mention that I really like the new scripts for bluetooth access and use them often. Thanks knoppix developers.

Does anyone know where I can get the 2.6.5 kernel headers from the 3.4 version of knoppix? I'll probably make trouble if I install the ones from debian as the kernels aren't identical.

:P

Fabianx
05-07-2004, 10:49 PM
I'm having trouble getting Knoppix working flawlessly on my desktop.

Thing is, I have one of these new fangled ASUS motherboards which is currently has both a SCSI card and is using the built in SATA RAID (two drives).

[...] Creative Audigy 2 card, there is NO SOUND.

Kernel 2.6: [...] However, when It gets to setting /etc/fstab.... the installer crahes.



Hi,

for the first problem:

- knoppix alsa will do

For the second one:

You can be the first one that can try the new "nofstab" cheatcode ;-).

You can also boot with "knoppix26 modules-disk" to just choose your SCSI-controller... (the name is misleading)

cu

Fabian

PS: If this information is helpful to you, please add it to somewhere in the docs (!).

amigaman2
05-07-2004, 11:32 PM
hi;
i just d/led it from the knoppix site and 2.6 doesn't get past scsi prob
said failed ????(i forget then went on to st100 and just sat there.
I didn't wait long though may not be stuck.
2.4 still works with my hardware useing it now to write this.
my hardware is:
ecs k7s5a
amd 1400 cpu
nvidia geforce 2 mx 64meg
ms optical mouse
gerneric keyboard
lg combo dvd/cdrw drive
maxtor 40 gig
256 sdram

Fabianx
05-07-2004, 11:47 PM
Well I hope despite to the bugs you guys are satisfied with the release anyway :-)

cu

Fabian

charlesfan
05-08-2004, 02:02 AM
Well I hope despite to the bugs you guys are satisfied with the release anyway :-)

cu

Fabian

hi Fabian,

I think I just found that I have to use the "noscsi" boot parameter on any PC (no metter AMD or intel, new or old, event inside the latest vmware 4.5.1) to boot with kernel 2.6

and as reported by someone on the Knoppix taiwan branch, and tested by my self the cdrom automount feature didn't work with kernel 2.6 (but floppy was fine)

anyway I think most of us still enjoy the latest 2.4.x kernel and KDE 3.2.2 and other new features :D

robwelch100
05-08-2004, 02:20 AM
I too have not been able to load the 2.6 kernel on the live cd boot I get the megaraid segmentation fault and then it freezes. On the hd install I can boot 2.4 flawlessly and 2.6 fails to load the scsi drivers. Otherwise it works ok. I do the expert26 boot option and the ncr53c8xx.o driver is not an option. However 2.4 loads this for my card.

Now for the good news...... my 5 button mouse works now.

Now off to get the realtek 8180 wlan card working.

I'm sure this SCSI issue will be fixed in the updated 3.4. Thanks for all the hard work getting the eagerly awaited 3.4 release out to the masses.

rob

robwelch100
05-08-2004, 02:20 AM
net problem ended up posting twice, sorry.

j.drake
05-08-2004, 02:26 AM
Well I hope despite to the bugs you guys are satisfied with the release anyway :-)

cu

Fabian

RU Kidding??? This thing is AWESOME. You guys outdid yourselves this time. I set Linux aside until I could check out 2.6.

I've seen four major accomplishments in Linux that will pave the path toward more widespread desktop acceptance: GUI (KDE), a competitive office suite (OpenOffice), Live disk implementation to serve as a transition (Knoppix), and NTFS compatibility. Linux is almost a viable desktop option for non-geeks now.

This is so cool.

charlesfan
05-08-2004, 05:00 AM
yes knoppix 3.4 is great ~!

and dear all, if you see "megaraid segmentation fault" message and stop when booting kernel 2.6, try using boot parameter "noscsi" :D

*well sorry for those who want to try it with an SCSI connected PC..

and Fabian, trust me we all love this new Knoppix 3.4 :-D if we don't we won' t spend our time testing it.. :P

we just want things to became better and better

*(actually I guess some bugs are from the new 5 months old kernel it self, also do you think the hardware detection program also needs to adapt to the newer kernel and new C++ compiler ??)

best regards to you all
here from charles :lol:

Tunes
05-08-2004, 02:39 PM
HI there,

3.4 works fine on cd, i've just have to add noscsi with linux26.

When i install to hd in begginer mode, i get no network card(PCMCIA) working with kernel 2.6.5

If i install in Knoppix mode, everything works fine...

How can i solve this problem????

Tks

Superstoned
05-08-2004, 05:19 PM
Re: Upgrading

ID10T error: insufficient knowledge for upgrade

I just downloaded and did a hdinstall about a week ago of 3.3.
Now, wanting to be current, I want to "upgrade" to 3.4. Do I need to just blowaway existing 3.3 on the hard disk and do a fresh install or is there an upgrade script of some kind. I would love to just upgrade/repair/replace/etc whatever the changes are, but didn't know if this was possible.

Thanks for helping the idiot

:)

hi idiot ;-)

you have hdinstalled as debian, i guess? now you have a debian GNU/Linux system. this means you can get info about installation and upgrading your system everywhere. to start, I'd suggest you read about apt-get (the advanced packet manager) which can be used to upgrade your system. on this site is alot info available.

good luck...

reagle
05-08-2004, 06:11 PM
I fear I just reinstalled my system for naught! Is there no loop-aes support in the 2.6 kernel?

hkfczrqj
05-08-2004, 07:43 PM
*well sorry for those who want to try it with an SCSI connected PC..
I did. And it worked. Maybe it was just plain luck. It was a PC with fairly standard hardware (and an Adaptec SCSI controller).

Anyway, at home I had no option but to use 'noscsi'.

Cheers...

ruymbeke
05-08-2004, 08:16 PM
Knoppix 3.4 rocks, Thanks !
How can I add the gigabit Realtek 8169 in the network bootstrap process ?
I can boot knoppix from the network (pxe, tftp, nfs, ...) using other network cards but this one. I suppose I have to recompile the miniroot.gz ... Thanks for any help, Gilles

PS: Sorry, stupid question, I didn't read the manual...
I just had to enable the right network modules when starting the Knoppix Terminal server to compile the right miniroot.gz and it works just great.
Thanks Klaus !

EmDee
05-08-2004, 10:39 PM
hi;
i just d/led it from the knoppix site and 2.6 doesn't get past scsi prob
said failed ????(i forget then went on to st100 and just sat there.
I didn't wait long though may not be stuck.
2.4 still works with my hardware useing it now to write this.
my hardware is:
ecs k7s5a
amd 1400 cpu
nvidia geforce 2 mx 64meg
ms optical mouse
gerneric keyboard
lg combo dvd/cdrw drive
maxtor 40 gig
256 sdram
Funny, I have the same exact hardware that you have there:-) Well ok, got a different cd writer and harddisk. The "noscsi" cheatcode did the job for me, so you might wanna try again with the 2.6 kernel!

Da_Brain
05-09-2004, 01:02 PM
Well I hope despite to the bugs you guys are satisfied with the release anyway :-)

cu

Fabian

As a newbie that fell in Love with Knoppix 3.3, I can only say that over all IM tickled Pink--))))

IM running a P-4 2.6 Gig, over 700 Meg of RAM, nVida GeForce TI 4200 and I have installed 3.4 to a 80 Gig Drive that I use just for Linux.

Both kernel's boot fine.

I have had very monior problems and they are:

Over all sound notifications in 2.4 will not work, yet sound in individual apps function fine--)))

In 2.6 I have the known mouse wheel problem where it just don't function.

My Nvidia card isn't recoganized for driver installation, which I beleive is due to Nvidia not being open source. I have d/l the latest install pkg from Nvidia. Have not installed it yet. IM chicken--)))) I dont want to hose all the work I have done so far. So that should be a good indication how much I like and value the 3.4 distro--)))) I don't understand enough to attempt to install yet, but will soon--)))

Shockwave/Flash, no plugins by default for cruising the web with either Mozilla or Konqueror.

IM reading my butt off try to learn debian and Linux overall. My goal is to migrate completey off of windows. Im loving this open source software.--)))

This to me would not be in my forecast if it were not for Knoppix! So a Big Thanks to You and Klauss for making this possible!

I just can't express enough my appreciation to ALL involved in creating Knoppix and this latest Distro!--)))

Finally in closing, I got my Net Gear PS101 Wireless Printserver working via Cups and my HP Laserjet workhorse 6p prints like a charm!

Thanks again!!!!!!!!

agent_smith
05-09-2004, 10:23 PM
Hi team!

I bumped into a most bizzare issue with the 3.4. release...

I tried installing 3.4 on to a Compaq DeskproEN (1Ghz PIII, 256 RAM, ATI AiW 128 Rage Pro 32 MB). After trying the
linux26 option,
it didn't work until I added
linux26 noscsi.
So far - so good.

What I did next was to launch #knoppix-installer. Weird thing is that I DID enter passwords for both root + user (regardless of how nagging the full name request is), and as soon as I rebooted, I could NOT login to the system neither through kdm, nor through tty1 console. Regardless of how I tried, I never got to enter the system :( KDM does display the root and user accounts, but does NOT accept passwords. At first I thought I had the CAPS on during install or something, but after trying virtually all possible combinations (caps on/off), gave up.

I am pretty sure it is my fault. I mean it is my first time trying the knoppix-installer. Any idea?

Smith
p.s. where did the good-ol' knx-hdinstall go???

oscar
05-10-2004, 12:45 AM
try knoppix single or linux single at boot time.
If it works then
passwd (to choose a new password))

timread
05-10-2004, 12:52 AM
I used the following command to set gcc to version 2.9.5.
export CC=/usr/bin/gcc2.95

Then just run the vmware install.


I think that depends upon the VMWare version. Doing what you suggested I was also able to install the version 4.0.5 but not the newer 4.5.1 which gave me an error:

make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
bridge.c: In function `VNetBridgeReceiveFromVNet':
bridge.c:346: structure has no member named `sk_wmem_alloc'
make: *** [bridge.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
Unable to build the vmnet module.

Never mind ... the version 4.0.5 works fine.

Thanks,

Tim

Neo-Rio
05-10-2004, 02:53 AM
- knoppix alsa will do

For the second one:

You can be the first one that can try the new "nofstab" cheatcode ;-).

You can also boot with "knoppix26 modules-disk" to just choose your SCSI-controller... (the name is misleading)


Thanks for the tips. I'll report back when I've tried it out.

Neo-Rio
05-11-2004, 01:03 PM
- knoppix alsa will do

For the second one:

You can be the first one that can try the new "nofstab" cheatcode ;-).

You can also boot with "knoppix26 modules-disk" to just choose your SCSI-controller... (the name is misleading)


Thanks for the tips. I'll report back when I've tried it out.

OK, here's the deal.
My cheatcode line was'-

linux26 knoppix alsa noscsi nofstab

Everything went to plan on bootup.... 2.6 kernel, alsa detected, scsi and fstab skipped completely.
On booting, KDE threw up an error though: Kmix crashed and threw the signal 8 (SIGFPE)
And sound still doesn't work

Neo-Rio
05-11-2004, 01:16 PM
Even in Linux2.4, sound doesn't work. I'm laying the blame on the shoddy SiI SATA RAID drivers and my mobo. Any chance of a "nosata" cheat code?

Also, some of the games that require full screen, like enigma and the nethack Falcon's eye are completely borking my display. I'm running at 1280x1024, and the screen is turning into a pile of lines, all out of sync.

Jack_
05-11-2004, 03:33 PM
Suggestions for 3.4 5-10 HD Install issue?

Here's the output after a restart into a HD beginner install:

root@knoppixlt:/home/jack# netcardconfig
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
Xdialog: Error initializing the GUI...
Do you run under X11 with GTK+ v1.2.0+ installed ?


Any ideas never had an issue with 3.3?

Jack_
05-11-2004, 03:35 PM
Heres another, it only happens with root , not my user id?

root@knoppixlt:/home/jack# glxinfo
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Error: unable to open display (null)

Ideas?

valonso
05-11-2004, 05:03 PM
I DID enter passwords for both root + user (regardless of how nagging the full name request is), and as soon as I rebooted, I could NOT login to the system neither through kdm, nor through tty1 console. Regardless of how I tried, I never got to enter the system KDM does display the root and user accounts, but does NOT accept passwords.

Try pushing the key to activate the numbers at the alphanumeric keys.

It happend something similar to me with a compaq notebook.

Regards

A. Jorge Garcia
05-11-2004, 10:28 PM
I always use the Debian hdinstall. Could someone please explain the differences between that and the beginner/knoppix way?

TIA,
AJG

ewanrg
05-11-2004, 11:38 PM
Let me know if the following is covered somewhere else, but...

The 3.4 May 10th release does not recognize my Linksys WUSB V2.8 wireless device. Since it is hooked up to a desktop, and the system is upstairs, I'd like to avoid having to carry everything up and down to get Knoppix going.

I installed to the HD using the recommended option, thinking that I could then build the Atmel Drivers from the Belios site, and got a nice Debian system. However, the source for the kernel is mislinked (everything points to the 2.4 stuff even though booting into 2.6), and so I am unable to compile the Atmel drivers to enable the network card.

Any way to setup the proper 2.6 directories and links? I assume I need to DL some headers and other files? Seems like I have a bit of a catch-22 here and would appreciate some help.

Thanks in advance!

scottknl
05-12-2004, 02:38 AM
Yeah Where are the kernel headers for the 2.6 kernel?

Anyone????

dbrower
05-12-2004, 07:37 AM
Knoppix 3.4 rocks, Thanks !
How can I add the gigabit Realtek 8169 in the network bootstrap process ?
I can boot knoppix from the network (pxe, tftp, nfs, ...) using other network cards but this one. I suppose I have to recompile the miniroot.gz ... Thanks for any help, Gilles

PS: Sorry, stupid question, I didn't read the manual...
I just had to enable the right network modules when starting the Knoppix Terminal server to compile the right miniroot.gz and it works just great.

Which manual are we talking about? I haven't found one yet, and it seems anything but simple. I am having a heck of a time trying to get a 3.4 terminal server working. The newly booted machine is not getting its interface together, which prevents it from mounting the KNOPPIX. It appears that it is trying to use the af_packet module to get the nic, but there doesn't seem to be anything binding it to eth0. What I see first is that the ifconfig eth0 in linuxrc fails, first because there is no /sbin/modprobe; and if I remaster the miniroot to get one, then it can't find an eth0. Then, ignoring that, linuxrc appears to ignore the nodhcp option that is given in the pxelinux.cfg/default file, and tries to dhcp.

I'd like to think that I'm blind and have just missed the doc that explains
how one needs to reconfigure the miniroot so that you get the right network drivers, but I haven't found it yet. The <a href=http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/FaqPXE> FaqPXE </a> page doesn't seem to touch on this. I don't want a floppy at all, or have to configure the miniroot -- I'd like it to pick up the UNDI PXE driver for the initial NFS mount, then if needed discover the better driver once more of the system is up. Perhaps this is implausible?

thanks,
-dB
[/quote]

ruymbeke
05-12-2004, 09:19 AM
Knoppix 3.4 rocks, Thanks !
How can I add the gigabit Realtek 8169 in the network bootstrap process ?
I can boot knoppix from the network (pxe, tftp, nfs, ...) using other network cards but this one. I suppose I have to recompile the miniroot.gz ... Thanks for any help, Gilles

PS: Sorry, stupid question, I didn't read the manual...
I just had to enable the right network modules when starting the Knoppix Terminal server to compile the right miniroot.gz and it works just great.

Which manual are we talking about? I haven't found one yet, and it seems anything but simple. I am having a heck of a time trying to get a 3.4 terminal server working. The newly booted machine is not getting its interface together, which prevents it from mounting the KNOPPIX. It appears that it is trying to use the af_packet module to get the nic, but there doesn't seem to be anything binding it to eth0. What I see first is that the ifconfig eth0 in linuxrc fails, first because there is no /sbin/modprobe; and if I remaster the miniroot to get one, then it can't find an eth0. Then, ignoring that, linuxrc appears to ignore the nodhcp option that is given in the pxelinux.cfg/default file, and tries to dhcp.

I'd like to think that I'm blind and have just missed the doc that explains
how one needs to reconfigure the miniroot so that you get the right network drivers, but I haven't found it yet. The <a href=http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/FaqPXE> FaqPXE </a> page doesn't seem to touch on this. I don't want a floppy at all, or have to configure the miniroot -- I'd like it to pick up the UNDI PXE driver for the initial NFS mount, then if needed discover the better driver once more of the system is up. Perhaps this is implausible?

thanks,
-dB
[/quote]

Well, by manual, I meant selecting the right network cards AND deselecting the unused ones to avoid any conflict during the Knoppix Terminal server script which creates the miniroot.gz. I got it working with both the Realtek 8169 and Intel E1000 gigabits cards. I used grub and/or grub4dos to load the pxe module of the non pxe 8169 card. The intel includes the pxe rom. I noticed that the Terminal server script works better when using 2 network adapters (wan+lan) and then knoppix works also as a router and do the nat on the lan. After running the script you may need to reenable the card(s) using "ifconfig eth0(1) up" or reconfigure the adapter using the knoppix menu. You can verify that knoppix recognized your card by using "ifconfig -a" and check if the card is up with the right ip. I actually transferred the cd content and the boot files on my OpenBSD server with nfs and tftp running to boot knoppix from it. I hope this will help and that you can get your config up and running.
Cheers, Gilles
:wink:

dbrower
05-12-2004, 06:32 PM
I understand now. I had not run through the complete server config,
and when I copied the /tftpboot stuff to the actual machine that is my
dhcp/pxe server, it was unconfigured with the unmodified contents of
/tftpboot, which would not work.

I do not like having to pre-configure the network drivers. I think it would
be better to have a bigger miniroot that contained all the net drivers
and did its own detection, as the cdrom version does. I may whack
that together. Since we're going to end up copying 100 MB of stuff
eventually, copying the additional 6M of more network modules in
the miniroot doesn't seem like much of a burden.

thanks,
-dB

ruymbeke
05-12-2004, 07:53 PM
I understand now. I had not run through the complete server config,
and when I copied the /tftpboot stuff to the actual machine that is my
dhcp/pxe server, it was unconfigured with the unmodified contents of
/tftpboot, which would not work.

I do not like having to pre-configure the network drivers. I think it would
be better to have a bigger miniroot that contained all the net drivers
and did its own detection, as the cdrom version does. I may whack
that together. Since we're going to end up copying 100 MB of stuff
eventually, copying the additional 6M of more network modules in
the miniroot doesn't seem like much of a burden.

thanks,
-dB

I agree, but when trying to get a miniroot including all the network drivers, the system locked up in some driver (which obviously I didn't need) and I couldn't get the system to boot. I had to go back to a "raisonnable" set of drivers to get a "working" config. So I understand Klaus wich allow each one of us to customize his miniroot according to his needs. But it would be good to have a default which includes all the drivers mostly used and known to work well together with a good and fast auto-detection and without any lock up.
Gilles

dbrower
05-12-2004, 11:43 PM
when trying to get a miniroot including all the network drivers, the system locked up in some driver (which obviously I didn't need) and I couldn't get the system to boot. I had to go back to a "raisonnable" set of drivers to get a "working" config.

I don't mean to put all the drivers into the kernel, which would be the result of including them all at the moment. What I mean is to include them all in the miniroot, and then change the linuxrc script to do real detection of them and only install the correct one(s). What is does now is load everything you have in the miniroot, which is why it is awkward to include them all. Since the good autodetection is already around, the terminal server should use it as well as the CD system. This is what I'm thinking about putting together -- a changed linuxrc that will autodetect the net driver needed to nfs mount the KNOPPIX.

-dB
[/quote]

ruymbeke
05-13-2004, 12:16 AM
Since the good autodetection is already around, the terminal server should use it as well as the CD system. This is what I'm thinking about putting together -- a changed linuxrc that will autodetect the net driver needed to nfs mount the KNOPPIX.
-dB

I am 100% with you then.
BTW, I have trouble accessing page 11 of this news/topic. Page 10 is the last one I can access from the top of the page (Goto page ...). Is there a limitation to 10 pages in this forum ?
GvR

timread
05-13-2004, 11:36 AM
I installed K 3.4 on my hard disk the day it came out and have been using it since then. I have, however, encountered three problems which I would like to know if anyone else has had, and know if anyone knows how to solve them?

1. Even though I have run the network card configuration script and successfully configured the card, every time I restart the computer the network doesn't work. On the startup screen I can see it backgrounding the DHCP server (which I do not need because I have a fixed IP). When I re-run the script, all my values are there, and I just click on OK, and then the card works fine. But I have to do it by hand every time...

2. By default cupsd doesn't start. I have to su to root and start it by hand. I have tried dkpg-reconfigure cupsys but the daemon will not start automatically.

3. The strangest of all. When I first did the installation, K 3.4 put a load of icons on my desktop that I did not need, so I deleted some of them and changed the name of others to more meaningful names, and everything is fine, but when I reboot (or plug in my USB pendrive), I loose all the changes I have made and get all the original icons? Strange.

Any suggestions would, as usual, be very well received.

Tim

Fabianx
05-13-2004, 01:13 PM
Suggestions for 3.4 5-10 HD Install issue?

Here's the output after a restart into a HD beginner install:

root@knoppixlt:/home/jack# netcardconfig
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
Xdialog: Error initializing the GUI...
Do you run under X11 with GTK+ v1.2.0+ installed ?


Any ideas never had an issue with 3.3?

No bug.

Please add it to Bugs/Installer-Bugs though ...

I'll explain:

Root is no longer allowed to access the users display due to security reasons.

Just do:

su - # creates new environment for root

and use netcardconfig in text modus.

Or:

use:

kdesu netcardconfig

cu

Fabian

Fabianx
05-13-2004, 01:34 PM
I installed K 3.4 on my hard disk the day it came out and have been using it since then. I have, however, encountered three problems which I would like to know if anyone else has had, and know if anyone knows how to solve them?

1. Even though I have run the network card configuration script and successfully configured the card, every time I restart the computer the network doesn't work. On the startup screen I can see it backgrounding the DHCP server (which I do not need because I have a fixed IP). When I re-run the script, all my values are there, and I just click on OK, and then the card works fine. But I have to do it by hand every time...

2. By default cupsd doesn't start. I have to su to root and start it by hand. I have tried dkpg-reconfigure cupsys but the daemon will not start automatically.

3. The strangest of all. When I first did the installation, K 3.4 put a load of icons on my desktop that I did not need, so I deleted some of them and changed the name of others to more meaningful names, and everything is fine, but when I reboot (or plug in my USB pendrive), I loose all the changes I have made and get all the original icons? Strange.

Any suggestions would, as usual, be very well received.

Tim

Hi,

please add al bugs to the bugs-page / knoppix-installer

1. is a bug. I added some code to make sure this won't happen. Obviously it did not work.

2. fixed in new version and same as 1). "Workaround" for now: as root do:

update-rc.d cupsys defaults

3. Hm, well you need to change mkdesktophdicons and disable it somehow ...

Its a feature not a bug ...

I don't know how to fix that yet though ...

cu

Fabian

timread
05-13-2004, 03:28 PM
Hi Fabian:

I'd just like to take the opportunity to thank you for the good work on Knoppix, I would support the idea of paying you guys for your work, but that is another thread.



please add al bugs to the bugs-page / knoppix-installer


I would love to, but when I connect to the Bugs section I am asked for another login and password - is their a FAQ about how to use the Bugs mechanism? It would be useful to know so that we can all help make Knoppix better.



1. is a bug. I added some code to make sure this won't happen. Obviously it did not work.


Ok, it's not the end of the world to re-run the script when I reboot the machine, since K 3.4 is so stable, I don't do it that often :wink:



2. fixed in new version and same as 1). "Workaround" for now: as root do:
update-rc.d cupsys defaults


Worked like a charm...



3. Hm, well you need to change mkdesktophdicons and disable it somehow ...

Its a feature not a bug ...

I don't know how to fix that yet though ...


Well, maybe it is a bit ugly but I found that:

chmod 0 /usr/bin/mkdesktophdicons

Seems to have done the trick, at least my desktop does not change without me asking it to do so.

Thanks.

Tim

j.drake
05-13-2004, 09:15 PM
To add anything to the WIKI, scroll to the bottom, type your forum username in the box, and click Edit, which should be just above and to the left of that name box. If the screen is asking for both a login and password, back up to the previous screen. No password is necessary - just name and Edit.

PatrickAmf
05-13-2004, 10:14 PM
Klaus, Fabian and everybody else responsible for Knoppix, in one word:

BRILLIANT :D :D

Boot with kernel 2.6 and toram (1Gb Ram), it's fantastic. In 5 minutes listening to music, browsing Internet and chatting. Installed the Flash plugin and looked at the flash page of my club 8)

Vielen dank fur dieser Knoppix 3.4.

Superstoned
05-14-2004, 08:58 AM
Hi Fabian:

I'd just like to take the opportunity to thank you for the good work on Knoppix, I would support the idea of paying you guys for your work, but that is another thread.


3. Hm, well you need to change mkdesktophdicons and disable it somehow ...

Its a feature not a bug ...

I don't know how to fix that yet though ...


Well, maybe it is a bit ugly but I found that:

chmod 0 /usr/bin/mkdesktophdicons

Seems to have done the trick, at least my desktop does not change without me asking it to do so.

Thanks.

Tim

;-)
Not realy a clean way to do it, you just made it impossible to run the script at all. you should try to find out where it is started, and remove that line. but I dunnow where its started, it must be some knoppix-script somewhere maybe in init.d or init.rc.

JockVSJock
05-23-2004, 03:02 PM
I just d/l Knoppix 3.4 from linuxiso.org and it had 2.6.6 kernel.

Burned iso to disk and have booted into 2.6 kernel just as a test run, and everytime I boot, it lock up the screen. I can move the mouse and that is about it.

Anyone else experience this? I am doing this with a very new laptop.

thanks

deepfrozenbrain
05-31-2004, 09:01 PM
[quote=scottknl]
I think that depends upon the VMWare version. Doing what you suggested I was also able to install the version 4.0.5 but not the newer 4.5.1 which gave me an error:

make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
bridge.c: In function `VNetBridgeReceiveFromVNet':
bridge.c:346: structure has no member named `sk_wmem_alloc'
make: *** [bridge.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
Unable to build the vmnet module.

Never mind ... the version 4.0.5 works fine.


I changed "sk_wmem_alloc" to "wmem_alloc" within the vmnet.tar (-> bridge.c) and then it runs fine. (There exist a compability macro to do this automatically but it seems not to work proper)

--
Gerald

Lino
06-14-2004, 11:38 PM
I can't start a new topic, but anybody knows where I can buy this new DVD version? I think Knoppix.net should sell it right on their site - I want to buy this DVD from the Knoppix team directly to support the development.

Lino
06-14-2004, 11:42 PM
The Subject doesn't show up (but why it is there then?). What I wanted was this:

KNOPPIX 3.5 LinuxTag 2004 DVD Edition

Who knows where I can get it (other than going to Linux Tag 2004)?

nvgringo
06-15-2004, 02:14 AM
Looks like it is pretty clear that linux-tag is the only way. Maybe one of our German friends can translate the linux-tag website and see if they will be available for purchace. I would like a copy of this one myself! In the mean time here is a link to an iso that you can download in the DVD forum. It seems to be based on 3.4 Cebit. I am working on a dvd remaster myself. But I am still a noob and I am learning how to tweak the window managers. The menus start to get a little cluttered with 5 gigs of stuff :)

deepfrozenbrain
06-15-2004, 10:17 AM
Maybe one of our German friends can translate the linux-tag website and see if they will be available for purchace.

"The 3.5 DVD is *exclusively* available on LinuxTag for 10€ and comprises the DVD, a Day-Ticket and one LixuxTag pin."

charlesfan
06-15-2004, 01:10 PM
I think this means another Knoppix 3.4 with kernel 2.6.7 :)

New Linux Security Hole Found

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1817&e=4&u=/zd/20040614/tc_zd/129564&sid=96120751

Mon Jun 14, 1:08 PM ET

Add Technology - Ziff Davis to My Yahoo!

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - eWEEK

A Linux (news - web sites) bug was recently uncovered by a young Norwegian programmer that, when exploited by a simple C program, could crash most Linux 2.4 or 2.6 distributions running on an x86 architecture.

Torvalds already has the problem well in hand, he said. "I fixed it in my [source code] tree a few days ago, so it's in the current snapshots, and if I wasn't in the middle of a move [to Portland, Ore.] I'd have released a 2.6.7 already. As it is, I'll hopefully have it done by tomorrow [June 15].

nvgringo
06-16-2004, 01:23 PM
Maybe one of our German friends can translate the linux-tag website and see if they will be available for purchace.


"The 3.5 DVD is *exclusively* available on LinuxTag for 10€ and comprises the DVD, a Day-Ticket and one LixuxTag pin."

Looks like it says the same thing in German as it does in English :wink:

locutus
06-22-2004, 07:34 PM
As I re-posted in the v3.4 C't Edition thread, there is still a problem with the 2.6 kernel boot process which will look for the Knoppix CD on IDE bus when it's really on the SCSI bus.

Is there anyway to force it to look on hte SCSI bus or do I need to copy the CD to the hard disk and have it look/run from there? TIA.

dobell
06-23-2004, 09:11 AM
Hi everybody

I have some news but can't post new topic in news forum, so I do it here.

A spanish linux magazine "Todo linux" is featuring Knoppix 3.4 in may release, so if you buy this magazine, you can get your knoppix 3.4 Cd. You can see more visiting:
http://www.iberprensa.com/productos/revistas/todolinux/todolinux.htm

Tea_Fiend
06-23-2004, 05:29 PM
If the 3.5 DVD kit is only avbailable at LinuxTag, is there any way thaty those of us who can't get there can get hold of a copy? I'd rather have that than download 3.4.

ruymbeke
07-05-2004, 02:15 PM
1) Did someone successfully have boot knoppix from the ISO file image ?
If yes how ? The cheat code bootfrom=/dev/hda1/*.iso did not work for me.

2) Did someone successfully have boot knoppix from a NTFS partition
having in its root either the loopback file /knoppix/knoppix or the iso file?
If yes how ? I tried to add the ntfs.o and add some debug in the linuxrc in the miniroot.gz
but it still doesn't work and I cannot figure it out yet ...
Please advise, Thanks...

oscar
07-05-2004, 05:33 PM
1) Did someone successfully have boot knoppix from the ISO file image ?
If yes how ? The cheat code bootfrom=/dev/hda1/*.iso did not work for me.


You need WMware (windows or linux)or MS Virtual PC (windows only)

ruymbeke
07-05-2004, 07:31 PM
1) Did someone successfully have boot knoppix from the ISO file image ?
If yes how ? The cheat code bootfrom=/dev/hda1/*.iso did not work for me.


You need WMware (windows or linux)or MS Virtual PC (windows only)

I already know and use vmware on an other systrem.
But I need to run knooppix on a stand alone system without cdrom and without changing the mbr nor the single ntfs partition. Using grub4all I can boot the kernel and ramdisk from the xp ntfs boot loader but knoppix cannot access properly the ntfs file system to continue the boot...

goldmoon
07-22-2004, 03:49 PM
When can we expect an update to the 2.6.7 or 2.6.8 kernel? :?:

Several security issues and serious bugs have been corrected in the kernel since Knoppix 3.4 was released :!: