Knoppix 6.3

[ruymbeke]

...All I have got to do is find a Windows machine with 4GB spare NTFS disk space that will work with 6.3 to confirm your findings...

Hello,
I finally got my hands on one of the Linux Magazine Pro and got the Knoppix 6.3 DVD,
and confirm that both my init ramdisk (c2_minirt_621a.gz and minirt_621c.gz)
initially created for Knoppix 6.2.1 are also working just fine with Knoppix 6.3.
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...=122674#122674
Best Regards,
Gilles

[carolus]

It would be nice to see a package list for the 6.3 DVD. I'm particularly interested in whether gfortran has been added, since it was missing from 6.2.

[klaus2008]

The package list was created with the command

COLUMNS=200 dpkg-query -l > knx630-packages-list.txt

and packed with zip afterwards.

[eco2geek]

I'm particularly interested in whether gfortran has been added, since it was missing from 6.2.

The short answer is, "libgfortran3" is installed but gfortran isn't.

[carolus]

The short answer is, "libgfortran3" is installed but gfortran isn't.

Seeing that maxima is still present, and scilab has been added, the scientific user is still supported. I suppose the missing gfortran is an oversight, or has not yet bubbled to the top of the priority list.

[ruymbeke]

Hello, The mount --bind command allows to remap a tree somewhere else. For some reasons with Knoppix 6.3 (and maybe some other versions of Knoppix) the mount --bind is not working for the data (folders and files) within the root "/" directory (data part of the init ram disk). It works fine for everything else. These examples just fail with the following error: (assuming /toto exists) mount --bind /mnt /toto" mount --bind /static /toto" mount --bind /modules /toto" mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /mnt, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or s but these are working just fine: mount --bind /ramdisk/var /toto" (/ramdisk is a ram disk file system) mount --bind /etc /toto (/etc is a link to the union file system folder /UNIONFS/etc) Any idea ? Thanks, Gilles