hotplainrice:

Can't see why it shouldn't work with a logical, but i'll consider that. As far as the kernel seeing the logical device though, it won't have a problem. And as thats whats only important for referencing the device, i doubt if it would have any bearing. But still, something to consider. Thanks for the clarification.

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Thanks for that Jacky

No real luck as yet ...

I hadn't thought of mounting the partition and then issuing a command after booting in. I'll try that.

It does mean that v5.0.1 is seriously broken though.

I boot with 'knoppix-txt' ... On a 17 inch crt monitor i find the 10pxl, 12pxl default quite horrendous. I just can't read such small fonts (grin). But that seems to be a common thing amongst the distros. One that i call 'gross slackness' .

I also prefer booting to the console and then starting X up manually, usually using a custom script to select a desktop. In v5.0.1 i tend to go for xfce4.

I also got the quirk mentioned above with kde only allowing an image to be saved to a floppy. Which sounds like kde is trying to impose training wheels on the bike, so to speak, for some wierd reason.

Seems to be the way Linux is going in a lot of distros theses days too, trying to make things <cough> simpler </cough> for people. But only making it harder as a result really (grin).

The cheat codes should work. If they don't, then the version is broken. And a person shouldn't have to do a remaster just to hack out start up scripts to make them work properly.

The 'myconfig=' option works fine, but even then i have to be careful how many cli options i use. So i'll just use

knoppix-txt 2 lang=us myconfig=<path-to-dev>

I haven't gone far with it since thursday, but iv'e copied out a few directories, mainly just /etc, to compare the scripts with v4.0. On a preliminary look the knoppix init in /etc/rcn.d does look a little strange around the part that checks for the home= parameter. But i'll have to look further at that.

I'll try your suggestion in the mean time though ..

Thanks for the feed back


jm

Thought :

Are dinosaurs really extinct, or just really good at hiding ?