Where does user data get saved when running Knoppix 5.1 DVD

[FlyBye88]

When I save Bookmarks or download a new nvidia driver etc etc - where does at that in fact get saved on my hard disks - eh - there is no way it will be being written on the dvd or?

I did in fact download a new linux nvidia driver package and then rebooted using the "knoppix 3" cheat to install the driver - but could find the download nowhere? Even here in MS Vista (RC1) when I look for the nvidia download it finds nothing?

So where does user data go in general when running a knoppix 5.1 live from a dvd - I have been trying to get an answer to this question on the German Formum also (I a a Brit living in Berlin-) but have had no response sofar.

rb

[OErjan]

one of the nice things about Kboppix is that is wont acess your disks without you "force" it there, this makes it a "safe" distribution for a beginner.

so if you have not made a permanent home on a FAT formatted USB pendrive or hdd it gets saved in ram, when you reboot it is gone.
Linux has only dangerously unstable NTFS write capabilities so be certain that you only save to FAT formated partition.

you can certainly save to a USB disk (if it is mounted then changed to read write), as with permanent home you must have the disk formatted as FAT (or linux filesystem ext3, reiserfs...), diskette and zip would also work, even burn it on a second cd or dvd burner.

[FlyBye88]

one of the nice things about Kboppix is that is wont acess your disks without you "force" it there, this makes it a "safe" distribution for a beginner.

so if you have not made a permanent home on a FAT formatted USB pendrive or hdd it gets saved in ram, when you reboot it is gone.
Linux has only dangerously unstable NTFS write capabilities so be certain that you only save to FAT formated partition.

you can certainly save to a USB disk (if it is mounted then changed to read write), as with permanent home you must have the disk formatted as FAT (or linux filesystem ext3, reiserfs...), diskette and zip would also work, even burn it on a second cd or dvd burner.

Thanks for your answer but I am still a bit confused. I only have 80GB total in the pc and there is one partition with xp on it (fat32) and another partition with vista RC1 (NTFS) - so If I understand you correctly I can run the knoppix from the dvd live and still write to the (xp-) fat32 disk partition.

BUT... when I boot the dvd knoppix with cheat command "knoppix 3" to start at a unix prompt in userlevel 3 <which seems to be needed to install the nvidia drivers- at least x driver should not be running> - I have no idea how to access the c:/ partition (fat32) where I would try and save the nvidea install package?

short version - how do I save the package to c: and how do I access the package on c: to mount it from within knoppix at level 3 in a unix terminal mode (- or whatever it is called - i.e. with no GUI?)

Sorry to go on and on but I just dont have a clue and am trying hard to learn...!

rb

[OErjan]

you would find installing the package hard, mostly as the DVD is read only,

start it in normal mode. to access the fat partition, just klick on the desktop icon, when the filebrowser has opened you rightclick on the disktop icon and either under actions or directly under the menu you get you have change read write mode.

if you still want to get acess to it under cli, just type

mount -a

then

sudo remount -rw /mnt/partition-name

the partition name can be found with

fdisk -l

minor L not capital i, there you should see something like

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, xxxxxxxxxxx  bytes
yyy heads, zz sectors/track, nnnn cylinders
Units = cylinders of xxxxx * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device      Boot      Start         End      Blocks    Id  System
/dev/hda1               0           0           00000     83  NTFS
/dev/hda2               0           0       0000000+  83  FAT

just use the /dev/ that ends in fat.
to get the file, write

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree8...-9746-pkg1.run

that should get you the latest Nvidia for linux.
have fun