Quote Originally Posted by Kowood
Quote Originally Posted by eco2geek
So, in my experience, and I've done it a bunch of times, when you do a "fromhd" style poor man's install, Knoppix treats the partition you're loading it from as if it were a read-only CD-ROM. It's not a bug; it's a feature.
That's what eco2geek said in the other topic I had on the thing. Is there a way for it to stop treating the partition as a read-only CD-ROM? Because that takes my CD-ROM drive away from me.
No, no, no. You misunderstood him. He said "as if it were" - that's subjunctive. Just because Knoppix creates a "virtual" cdrom drive with the "fromhd" cheatcode - that doesn't have beans to do with your real one. That's the whole point!!! The "fromhd" process PREVENTS the cdrom drive from being locked up while you run knoppix. If it didn't, there would be absolutely no point in using it (other than speed)!! If your cdrom drive configuration is jicked up, it's not because of the "fromhd", and you need to let go of that theory if you want to address the real issue. The "hd mounted to cd" theory has no merit. It is a distraction. eco2geek was trying to help you w/r/t your ability to access the hd. What he offered was in no way addressed to your use of the cdrom.

[Edit] I haven't found it to be the case that running "fromhd" locks up the entire partition where the image is installed. Now, what I HAVE found is that you cannot unmount that partition in the course of a linux session. That stands to reason, right? You can't just jerk the rug out from under your own feet. You can't remove access from the very drive that tells the computer how to remove access.[/edit]

Look, you already said that you can eject the CD. That proves conclusively that your CD is not being locked up. When Knoppix locks up the CD, you cannot even eject it.

Give me a moment to boot into Knoppix and see if maybe I'm missing something. I apologize that I cannot totally duplicate the experiment, because I wiped out all my linux files and configurations to backup a new replacement hd. I'll take a look at your other post as well.

jd