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 Faq New Questions

Pre-FAQ

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This site is meant as an experiment making a "Pre-FAQ":

Everybody (especially Knoppix/Linux-Newbies) can ask their questions, and the "wise guys" can answer them ;-) This means there can also be Questions without answers here. ATTENTION: But don't be rash. Check first if there isn't already an answer to your Question (KnoppixFaq, KnoppixFaqDeutsch, FullTextSearch).

If a Questions is adequately answered you can move it to the "real" FAQ(en)/FAQ(de).


Diese Seite ist als Versuch gedacht eine "Pre-FAQ" zu machen:

Hier kann jeder (besonders Knoppix/Linux-Neulinge) seine Fragen loswerden, und die "Erleuteten" können sie beantworten ;-) Das heißt hier können auch Fragen ohne Antworten stehen. ACHTUNG: Aber nicht voreilig hier Fragen reinschreiben. Versichere dich vorher ob die Frage nicht schon irgendwo beantwortet ist (KnoppixFaq, KnoppixFaqDeutsch, FullTextSearch).

Ist eine Frage ausreichend beantwortet, kann man sie in die eigentliche FAQ(en)/FAQ(de) übernehmen.


Question example (please don't delete) - Fragenbeispiel (bitte nicht löschen):

Q: What is the FaqNewQuestions Page? (name of the asking one, maybe email)

A: See top of this page. (name of the answering one, maybe email)


QUESTION SECTION / FRAGEN BEREICH

Q: I installed knoppix on the hard disk. I just can't log in. I don't remember my password. Is there a way for me to get in without reinstalling everything?

A:This question has already been answered (read the text above to know what i mean. -> FullTextSearch). Please delete this question and answer after reading.

Q: I am a new user to linux and i just installed KNOPPIX on one partition, but then i installed windows 98 on another partition and now i can't get lilo to come back. How do I make it so lilo will come back?

this Q&A moved to FaqRescue

Q: I need some help on some easy commands to use the vi editior, if you could help me on that, that would be great (by Funtifer).

knoppix 2 it is still running knoppix off the CD but it is just in the text terminal. all it does is not run the "startx" command so it is still the knoppix CD file of lilo.conf not my file lilo.conf , and i don't know how to save the file. it keeps saying "readonly file(use ! to override)" so i press ! and it still does nothing. if you could help me again that would be great (by Funtifer)

  • Just edit the lilo.conf to the settings you need (or mount the previous linux partition and copy its lilo.conf settings to yours) and enter "lilo" to make lilo.conf active.
  • Or see here for an other way: FaqRescue ("My other Linux install is broken and I want to reinstall LILO") This sould work flawlessly.
  • for vi -> press : and then enter x and ! and hit enter (see below).

A: some vi basics:

Start vi with vi insertfilenamehere. In vi there is an command-mode and an edit-mode. You swith between them with i in the command mode and ESC in the edit-mode.

Some command for the command-mode:
Some command for the command-line (confirm with ENTER, exept for ESC)

To learn vi start in your shell "vimtutor"

See also here: httphttp://www.bris.ac.uk/is/selfhelp/documentation/vi-r2/vi-r2.htm and here: httphttp://www.chem.brown.edu/instructions/vi.html

Short (fits on screen) and enough commands to do basic editing in vi: httphttp://students.csci.unt.edu/~chapin/1120/vi_hints.txt

Als Alternative für Neulinge empfehle ich mcedit. Backspace funktioniert, die Cursortasten - Anlernen unnötig.

Q: I intstalled knoppix on to my laptop hard disk and I can't get the sound to work, it didn't work on the cd either. The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 490CDT, the sound is the Yamaha OPL3-SA3. Any assistance on setting this up would greatly appreciated.

A: With Debian (portege 3020ct) I have had the same problem. Run sndconfig, it worked for me.

FOR KNOPPIX CUSTOMIZATION FAQ:

Q How do I change default WM?

Where are files that people might be interested in changing while customizing or "remastering" knoppix, such as what file to change the default window manager/desktop environment and background, how to launch a specific application after loading and making sure it's persistent(such as in KNOPPIX-MAME)?

Q: How to change default language after knx-hddinstall?

A: I am assuming English. The easiest way, on taskbar click German flag changing it to the U.S. flag. Go to terminal and type "kpersonalizer". Change KDE language to English. Then right click flag and configure keyboard to English. Cntl-Alt-Del and pick the top item of three. Log back in and make sure the Flag is U.S., then click arrow to left of flag, and close it.

Q: How do I... (Monitor/VideoCard/Xfree86)

Q: How do I stop kdeinit from trying to launch after changing default WM?

Q: How can I use the wheel of my serial mouse (known as IntelliMouse)? I know how to change the XF86Config but I want to know another way.

Q: How can I save a webpage to one of my hard disk partitions if I really need to using CDROM. I realize they are turned write-off, but I want to use it for work.

Q: Where can I download a ready patched kernel source matching the kernel image on the Knoppix CD?

Q: What seperates a Knoppix question from a Debian question?

A: RFP - It is difficult to know for a Linux newbie. Basicaly it is a Knoppix question if it's a problem that occures on Knoppix, and where you didn't find an answer via Google or something. Basicaly this says: "Do some investigation, if you can't fix it yourself, ask someone on this site", they'll point you to website/manual-page that you can use if it exists.

Q: What are some good debian forums for newbies?

A: httphttp://www.debianhelp.org/

Q: Is there an url I could add to my sources.list in order to update knoppix-related packages via apt without downloading the full iso on each new release?

Q: I am using a siemens-nixdorf PCD-5H (very old Pentium I-64MB) and I tried to boot Knoppix. But after boot: knoppix 2 I only see two more lines and then the Monitor gets black. The CD-Rom drive is still working for 1 or 2 minutes after that, but nothing happens. xmodule=vesa or fbdev or noscsi or fb800x600 did not work. What´s the problem?

Q: Wenn ich bei einer Knoppix-Festplatteninstallation den Kernel neu compiliere, was muss ich tun, damit wieder ein Knoppix-Kernel dabei raus kommt?

Q: I use a Compaq Armada 100s which worked with Knoppix 3.1 but doesn't work with Knoppix 3.2 10th-April-2003. In the hardware recognition process, it displays "using modes "1024x768" ..." alright, and then it says: "Scanning for hardware partitions and creating /etc/fstab ... cardmgr57: +Operation failed. Cardmgs?57: start cmd exited with status 1". It then freezes and that's all I get. I've tried with lang=es at boot prompt. The CheatCodes says I should use some no-something - which something should it be? Is it something else? It worked in Knoppix 3.1 !!!


Comments to this idea are also welcome / Kommentare zu dieser Idee sind natürlich immer willkommen:

The names/emails should also be in the real FAQ. This is good for later references.
Die Namen/Email-Adressen sollten auch in die eigentliche FAQ übernommen werden, für spätere Referenzen.

Frage: Ich nenne ein an und für sich recht gutes Notebook mein Eigen (Dell Latitude X200), doch genau hier liegt mein Problem. Das DVD-Laufwerk der Mobile-Base maskiert sich als (bzw. ist ein) Firewire-Device. Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, Firewireunterstützung schon beim booten zu bekommen? Dankeschön im voraus.


Last edited on April 11, 2003 5:15 pm.