Bugs/5.1.1CD

2007-07-09T00:02:12Z

HylF66:

1) There are two problems with option label dos for loading FreeDos balder.img. There is no memdisk file in /boot/isolinux folder and the isolinux.cfg sintax is wrong

The correct syntax is

LABEL dos

KERNEL /boot/isolinux/memdisk

APPEND initrd=/boot/isolinux/balder.img

2) KNOPPIX incorrectly guesses that my serial mouse uses the "Microsoft" protocol, with the result that my mouse pointer hops around almost at random. It works correctly if I edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf replacing the mouse protocol "Microsoft" with "MouseSystems" or "auto". Since the "auto" protocol would presumably work with a "Microsoft" mouse, too, that would seem to be a better default for KNOPPIX to use.

(see discussion by clicking "discussion" above)

Knoppix 5.1.1's knoppix-autoconfig script has an error with regard to "default" myconfig.
In the case where knoppix has been remastered with knoppix.sh and configs.tbz in the
CD root (/) the test for knoppix.sh is wrong. Line 1310 should be changed from:
MYCONFIG="$(ls -1d /cdrom/KNOPPIX/[Kk][Nn][Oo][Pp][Pp][Ii][Xx].[Ss][Hh] 2>/dev/null)"
To:
MYCONFIG="$(ls -1d /KNOPPIX/[Kk][Nn][Oo][Pp][Pp][Ii][Xx].[Ss][Hh] 2>/dev/null)"
This will allow a default myconfig (e.g. if the myconfig= argument is not given)
to detect the presence of the knoppix.sh script.

--[[User:Hanumant|Hanumant]] 16:04, 14 Jun 2007 (UTC)

Knoppix 5.1.1's knoppix-autoconfig script has an omission with regard to setting the timezone.
The script set /etc/local time around line 557. It should also update the file /etc/timezone:
rm -f /etc/timezone
echo "$TZ" > /etc/timezone

--[[User:Hanumant|Hanumant]] 16:06, 14 Jun 2007 (UTC)

3) rebuildfstab adds the following garbage to /etc/fstab on a system with no hard drive:
# Added by KNOPPIX
noauto,users,exec 0 0
Here is a fix:
--- /usr/sbin/rebuildfstab.orig 2007-06-26 09:16:54.972750170 -0400
/usr/sbin/rebuildfstab 2007-06-26 09:17:42.095435539 -0400
@@ -75,2 75,3 @@
count=0
scanpartitions | \
while read device mountpoint fstype relax; do
@@ -98,5 99,3 @@
echo "$device $mountpoint $fstype $options 0 0"; }
-done >>"$TMP" <<EOT
-$(scanpartitions)
-EOT
done >>"$TMP"
--[[User:Johntobey|Johntobey]] 13:32, 26 Jun 2007 (UTC)

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