Unmounting Knoppix CD with TORAM

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Originally Posted by drmarathe

In my Toshiba Notebook I have only one CD Writer :) And I have no Hard disk. The disk controller having crashed. Is there any way of using Knoppix so that after starting Knoppix, I can umount the CD and then play music CDs or Video CDs? I have lots of RAM i.e. 256 MB

I tried Toram option. But it doesn't let me eject CD.

You would need 1G of system RAM to use the toram cheatcode. A 500MB .iso would only require 768M of RAM. Perhaps a smaller .iso would even boot toram w/ less system RAM. I have heard of other distros that allow you to eject the cd after boot but do not recall what they are.

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Secondly is there any way to login as Root under KDE. I am having problems accessing data from my Jetflas Stick, if I am not root.

Thanks

Simply open a terminal and issue su and you are root. Then you can launch anything you like as root. To launch Konqueror: konqueror &

Another option would be:
init 3
startx

That *should* start an entire X session as root. I do not have a Knoppix disc handy at this moment to confirm and I am not overly familiar with KDE so perhaps it may not work this way.

Although this is generally considered a bad idea (running X as root or logging in as root) I do understand that your disc controller is not functional so in your case I suppose that no harm can really be done to your laptop. Be careful if you are on a network! :)