[[ s there a way I can run as Root when booted from LiveCD ??
IOW - suppose I want to d/l a file and save it to another partition....or edit a text file on another FAT32 partition (all my HDD partitions are FAT/FAT32).
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--If you don't need a GUI, boot with boot: ' knoppix 2 ' == This boots the livecd into runlevel 2 do an " ls " on ( /etc/rc2.d ) to see which links get run, compare to /etc/rc5.d which is the default. But that is prolly a little advanced.

--When booting the CD normally, after the GUI comes up you merely have to hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a root prompt. Root prompts also exist on F2-F6; Alt-F7 gets you back to X. (This behavior is defined in /etc/inittab; see the "getty" lines.)

--Once you are root, try this:
' mkdir /mnt/tmp ' == Create a mount point
' mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/tmp -orw,uid=knoppix ' == Mount drive C so that the "knoppix" userid "owns" it (has all permissions)

--Then switch back ( alt-F7) and start a konsole / rxvt / xterm, and (as the knoppix user) type:
' touch /mnt/tmp/blah ' == Creates an empty file named blah on /mnt/tmp; this will establish that you have write permission to the drive as a regular user.

--See ' man mount ' for more info.