knoppix image

[sagar priyadarshi]

hi to all!
i have been using knoppix. In knoppix live dvd,there is a folder 'KNOPPIX' inside which two more folder 'knoppix' & 'knoppix2' are there.Size of each is around 1.9 Gb and file type is shell script.can anyone help me to read the data and information inside those two folders(those are encrypted)..
or help me to get an image reader to read them..
thanx a lot in advance

[Harry Kuhman]

....In knoppix live dvd,there is a folder 'KNOPPIX' inside which two more folder 'knoppix' & 'knoppix2' are there.Size of each is around 1.9 Gb ....

Those are the compressed files that hold all of the gnu applications that are included with Knoppix. Knoppix holds more applications than can normally be included on a CD or DVD by compressing all of the applications into these files (the 700 meg CD has about 2 gig of applications on it). The DVD uses 2 files because one file alone would be larger than the 2 gig filesize limit imposed by ISO9660, the filesystem used on the optical discs.

[sagar priyadarshi]

thanx...
but i actually want to know what is inside those folders..
is there any image reader or something like that..
one more question how the compression and decompression holds here

[sagar priyadarshi]

anyone there to help me plz!!!

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i have been using knoppix. In knoppix live dvd,there is a folder 'KNOPPIX' inside which two more folder 'knoppix' & 'knoppix2' are there.Size of each is around 1.9 Gb and file type is shell script.can anyone help me to read the data and information inside those two folders(those are encrypted)..

This is how I do that (directly from CD iso):

# mount -o loop Knoppix.iso  /mnt
# modprobe cloop
# losetup /dev/cloop0 /mnt/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX
# mount /dev/cloop0 /mnt
mount: block device /dev/cloop0 is write-protected, mounting read-only

# umount /mnt
# losetup -d /dev/cloop0
# umount /mnt

In DVD you have KNOPPIX1 and KNOPPIX2 instead of KNOPPIX file.

-tapsa-