Newbie Q: ms-win access to persisent_home file?
Apologies if this is in a faq, or somewhere in the forum. I did have a look.
downloaded, burnt, etc knoppix yesterday. works just lovely, except...
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My main interest in running knoppix is being able to play with the dev tools especially QT / QT designer. I've had it with those nasty MFC macros.
In order to "play" i'll need some disc storage; enter mr. pen-drive.
OK I understand that i need to do the stuff outlined in the persistent_home threads, BUT I don't know how to access the contents of the file created under MS-Windows...
So how do i access the CONTENTS of the "*.img" file under windows. Why do i want to do this? so that i can test out how portable QT is, so that i can try porting open office documents, cause i wanna...
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1. doesn't have a menu driven option for the startup parameters. imho this will put granny's et al off. they won't be able to fathom "just type knoppix fluxbx..." is someone doing a pretty startup menu? maybe something like most bios editing utils.
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2. can't seem to change screen res once kde is started. it may be all very well to detect video hardware and monitor, BUT some people like running at a lower screen res (cause their screen's focus is very puur). Is it possible to change screen res after startup?
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3. can't find out how to set up phone dialer for modem. i've got one of those nasty internal jobs.
Ciao
Stephen
Re: Q: ms-win access to persisent_home file?
Thanks to Knulle and Cuddles,
if lilo can be configured to *just do it* then bring it on...
I appreciate the fact that a mouse driven gui would be a bit hard, but i was thinking more along the lines of what you see in the bios cfg utils.. basically just cascading text menus.
now i know that similar sorts of menus can be crafted without any os present. take a look at the boot-manager by Nagy Daniel
http://www.masterbooter.com/
what i was thinking of was something like the above that is formed at runtime from one of those .sh scripts i was reading about. i'm guessing here but when you get to the "knoppix desktop=xfce" stage the kernel is loaded, right... course it would mean that someones gonna have to code a scriptable cascading menu system. cmon, how har could it be (he says with thumb pressed against forehead -- bags not me)
please believe me that i have no complaint against gnu / linux type os's like knoppix. what i'm really thinking is that these cd based live type distrbs need to make it really easy for ordinary people to use. ordinry people want to be able to save documents straight away without having to jump hoops.
Is there a knoppix derivative that automagically checks the read-write option on fat partitions?
anyways still looking for an answer to the ol "how do i view the .img file in windose?'
ka-kite