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    Knoppix-STD won't boot on laptop - will boot on desktop

    I'm trying to boot Knoppix-STD on a toshiba tecra 8100. The disk goes in I restart and it keeps booting to Windows 2000.
    Knoppix-STD works fine on the desktop.

    Also Knoppix 5.1.1 live cd works on the laptop.

    Reason is I'm trying to get chntpw.deb to run and I can't. Knoppix 5.1.1 live cd doesn't have that, since Knoppix-STD won't work I'm trying to use knoppix 5.1.1.

    I've mounted both drives and tried to extract the chntpw file from the package on my usb. When I go to run chntpw. it says :bash :chntpw is not a file.
    I'm doing something wrong. Can someone please give me some direction. I'm running this all from root@tty1[]#

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    Partially done

    Okay had a bit of trouble but I think I got most of it. Still can't get the STD cd to work so I worked with 5.1.1

    After I had extracted out the utility from the usb drive. ( I had some trouble mounting /dev/hda1 kept saying nonempty drive but the /dev/sda1 was no problem ) could have been because the usb is FAT and hda1 is NTFS, not sure but anyhow I extracted chntpw.deb like this:

    First had to convert the .deb to .tgz and then put the utility into the /usr/sbin sub directory

    # alien -to-tgz chntpw_<ver>.deb
    # tar xvzf chntpw<ver>.tgz /usr/sbin/chntpw

    Then I could run it. I didn't realize it needed to be in the /usr/sbin directory to function on the command lines. Anyways I was successful and was able to reset my Windows 2000 password on my old laptop.

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