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354 Part III . Choosing and Installing a Linux Distribution Testing the CD If you suspect that you have a bad KNOPPIX CD, I recommend you run this from the boot prompt: knoppix testcd If you are still not able to boot KNOPPIX at this point, it might be that your hardware is either not supported or is broken in some way. To further pursue the problem, check out an appropriate forum at www.knoppix.net. Running KNOPPIX from RAM To improve performance, KNOPPIX offers a way to run the entire KNOPPIX distribution from RAM (provided you have enough available) or install it on hard disk and run it from there. Provided that you have more than 1GB of RAM, you can run KNOPPIX entirely from RAM (so you can remove the KNOPPIX DVD or CD and use that drive while you run KNOPPIX) by typing the following from the boot prompt: knoppix toram Installing KNOPPIX to Hard Disk You can run KNOPPIX entirely from hard disk if your hard disk is either a FAT or EXT2 file system type and contains at least 800MB of space. To do this, you must know the name of the hard disk partition you are installing on. For example, to use the first partition on the first IDE drive you would use /dev/hda1. In that case, to copy KNOPPIX to that disk partition, you would type this at the boot prompt: knoppix tohd=/dev/hda1 You can watch as KNOPPIX is copied to your hard disk partition and then boots automatically from there. The next time you want to boot KNOPPIX, you can boot it from hard disk again by inserting the KNOPPIX medium and typing the following: knoppix fromhd=/dev/hda1 With KNOPPIX running from your hard disk, you can safely eject your CD or DVD and use the drive for other things (type eject /dev/cdrom). Refer to the knoppixcheatcodes. txt file for information on other things you can do from the KNOPPIX boot prompt. Using KNOPPIX Rather than go over how to use the features in KNOPPIX that are common to many Linux systems (KDE, Internet tools, word processors, and so on), I ll give you a quick tour of the special features in KNOPPIX. If your computer booted KNOPPIX properly, you should see a screen that is similar to the one shown in Figure 11-1.
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