Knoppix 3.8.1 is out!

[maxIT]

created boot disk wouldn't boot.

I deprecate it since with knx3.4 you nedd 2 and no more one floppy , but I've discovered this very intersting thread: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...=12520&start=0
It lead you to create a boot floppy with a simple autoexec.bat, or without floppy and without cd, boot knoppix with an yourname.bat file in your hd.
I consider me very newb but I've tryed it with success
Just few keywords, just download a little 32k loadlin file

bye, max

[Digital Parasite]

This is due to a linux kernel change. The very brain of the OS, the Linux kernel version 2.6.x, the internal architechture has changed and this has resulted in USB devices mapped to /dev/uba. Yes this is frustrating but going forward, this may be a permanent change. It is more logical to have USB devices at a /dev/uba1 as opposed to /dev/sda1 because /dev/sd? was created years ago for SCSI devices.

Is it just internal kernel changes? If you take Fedora Core 3 with the latest 2.6.x kernel as well as the custom Linux 2.6 boot CDs I have created the USB drives still get mapped to /dev/sda1. I noticed that Knoppix 3.8.1 does map the devices to /dev/uba1 but not all systems running the 2.6.x kernel acts in this way, so something else must be different as well. Any idea what that is?

[angor]

> I noticed that Knoppix 3.8.1 does map the devices to /dev/uba1 but not all systems running the 2.6.x kernel acts in this way

For those who dare compile the kernel themselves )))
make menuconfig -> device drivers -> block devices -> Low Performance USB Block driver

Quote from "Help":
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB:
This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices
such as flash keys.
Warning: Enabling this cripples the usb-storage driver.
</quote>

You don't have to enable this, but Knoppix obviously chose to do just that.

[ruymbeke]

According to http://distrowatch.com/ Knoppix 3.8.2 is out !!!

An updated version of the KNOPPIX live CD has been released.
From the http://ftp.tu-ilmenau.de/Mirrors/kno...-CHANGELOG.txt V3.8.2-2005-05-05 (update):
dist-upgrade;
kernel 2.6.11 update;
the madwifi drivers are back;
kwifimanager in KNOPPIX/network menu;
OpenOffice 1.1.4 security update;
swapping on knoppix.swp on a NTFS partition should now work;
replaced Fabian Franz' original knoppix-installer with the version from Jörg Schirottke/Kanotix;
fixed SCSI drivers in bootimage.
KNOPPIX 3.8.2 is available for free download from one of its mirror servers: ftp://source.rfc822.org/pub/mirror/k...5-05-05-EN.iso (694MB) or
ftp://source.rfc822.org/pub/mirror/k...5-05-05-DE.iso (694MB).

Hopefully someone will publish a bittorrent as well ...
Why is it not announced in the english forum yet ???
Cheers, Gilles

[Digital Parasite]

>For those who dare compile the kernel themselves )))
make menuconfig -> device drivers -> block devices -> Low Performance USB Block driver

Thanks angor. I never noticed that option before. I am used to building 2.4 kernels so I haven't had a chance to discover all the new features of 2.6 yet.

But why do they call it "low performance" because its speed is much worse than than the "regular" driver?

[tboege]

3.8.2 torrent available from http://www.boegenielsen.dk:6969