Tom Cook wrote:
On 0, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote: [snip]Unless the machine is low on RAM (32MB for non-GUI mode I believe; 96 or so for KDE mode), forcing Knoppix to use the hard drive for swap space, the hard drives are mounted read-only in my experience. Once in, you can remount them rw.What the... How can a swap partition be read-only? How can a disk be used as swap without overwriting (probably FAT32) partitions on the disk? Tom
It appears you misread the sentence; here it is again, restated.The hard drives are mounted read-only in most cases. But in the event that the machine is low on RAM, the hard drive is mounted read/write so that a swap file (not partition) can be created/used by Knoppix.