Quote Originally Posted by TekkamanShard
ok, just got knoppix running off cd, how do i go about saving the settings to a floppy?

I need it to save my internet connection settings (now that I have it working) because it is storing them in the ramdisk, I would rather have it on floppy instead...
also how do i get the winamp-like player to save its playlists to a floppy? I made the mistake of overwritting the floppy icon on the desktop with the playlist.... lol.
The simple answer is to archive ~knoppix/.kde and ~knoppix/.xmms somewhere - and unarchive them before you run X.

To do this the "hard way" - after booting Knoppix, do:

init 2

...then unarchive your ~knoppix/.kde and ~knoppix/.xmms (and whatever others might be useful) - then do:

init 5

...this reloads X.

The "easy way" - easy booting that is - is to write a script and put it onto a floppy (as "knoppix.sh") to do the unarchiving before X is even loaded.

That's what I do - except all of my data is stored on a USB drive. When I get done with the scripts, the archives could just as easily be on a hard drive somewhere...