burn a CD from same CD drive that booted Knoppix

[dvd]

Is there a way to boot Knoppix from a CD-RW drive and then burn another CD from the same drive? I have a laptop with only one CD drive, no floppy, and only NTFS partitions, so I'm looking for a way to save data while using Knoppix.

Thanks,
David

[baldyeti]

Time to invest in a USB key, I'd say ;-)

[dvd]

I read that MandrakeMove allows people to eject the bootable CD and play multimedia CDs. Might a similar mechanism be possible to burn CDs from the same drive that booted Knoppix?

[Cuddles]

DVD,

I don't think you can do it with Knoppix - at least without doing a HD Install.

Problem is, and I had this problem, when you boot the CD, it locks the tray of the CD - that way it can't be removed out from under the "expected" location the OS thinks. (btw - this also is what happens when you install Windoze from the CD, during the install, it locks the drive tray, as well)

You can either install to HD, install another CD-ROM drive, or, use the Poor-Mans install - which from what I hear, you create the CD-ROM image on your hard drive and boot from a floppy disk to point to the hard drive - of any of these three options, any one of them will allow the CD-RW to be used for other purposes.

I went with the HD Install, even though I was using my DVD device to boot, and had my CD-RW unused.

[oscar]

Is there a way to boot Knoppix from a CD-RW drive and then burn another CD from the same drive? I have a laptop with only one CD drive, no floppy, and only NTFS partitions, so I'm looking for a way to save data while using Knoppix.

Thanks,
David

...yes!...if you have enough ram...more than 700mb
use cheatcode toram to load the whole knoppix CD into ram

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...ighlight=toram

[windos_no_thanks]

...yes!...if you have enough ram...more than 700mb
use cheatcode toram to load the whole knoppix CD into ram

You probably need even more since that only covers the image of the compressed filesystem. I guess you could ease the memory requirements by using some remaster from which all the heavy stuff like openoffice etc have been ripped out.

[dvd]

Wow, the whole thing to RAM? Interesting idea. So there's no way yet to implement something similar to MandrakeMove's CD eject, but for CD burning in Knoppix?

-David

[merauder]

Sure you can! All you have to do is open a console and type:

sudo bash -

umount /mnt/cdrom

eject cdrom

voila, pop in the new disk, if its audio, dont mount it, if its a data disk do:

cd /mnt/cdrom

done.

[John3333]

Your suggestions doesn't work for me. Does it work for anyone else, or are there other ways to do it?

[firebyrd10]

Sure you can! All you have to do is open a console and type:

sudo bash -

umount /mnt/cdrom

eject cdrom

voila, pop in the new disk, if its audio, dont mount it, if its a data disk do:

cd /mnt/cdrom

done.

Not a good idea, the entire OS is on the Disk, you remove it and you can't do anything.

Try repartitoning the NTFS drives and creat a fat partiton, (qtparted can safely resize NTFS)
Then when booting, type knoppix tohd=/dev/hda2(its probably 2, change it if needed)
Wait till its done coping, then remove the cd and boot as usual.