Time problems

[sireasoning]

I intalled Knoppix on my harddrive and its great. I have a few problems though and maybe someone can help me out.

1. Everytime I turn on the computer and log on I have to set up the time and date. It's not being saved.

2. I can use the CD Player as root but if I try as knoppix user I get the message: CD ROM read or access error. Please make sure you have access permissions to: /dev/cdrom.

I've only been using Linux for 4 days so sorry if this are stupid questions.

Tovi

Open a root console adduser < user name > cdrom to get access to cdrom by adding your user to the group.
[edit]Add yourself to the floppy group too if you want to write to the floppy.[/edit]

Your system probably has the time on your clock set to CET (central european time) change the time zone to your zone. Right click on the clock in the system tray to change.

two problems with the above approach:

one: knoppix should already have access to cdrom and floppy (although one would have to have 2 cdrom drives for this to be a real issue I would think)

two: You would have to set a root password before you can change the time via the kde taskbar (open a root console and type: "sudo passwd" (without quotes) then enter the root password you want.). Then you would need to kill the kicker process ("ctrl + esc" will bring up the kde task manager) and then rerun kicker ("alt + F2" will bring up a command line and then type "kicker") for the proper time change to be seen on the taskbar. I am also uncertain as to if it will be saved after "save Knoppix configuration" has been run. I don't believe that it is (although the root password will be saved).