On Feb 10, 2006, at 2:33 PM, Ed Howland wrote:
> What about USB hard drives. Is that the same as FireWire drives. I
> have
> 2 a ReiserFS and and ext3. The latter has multiple partitions.
Yup. Just about any external device shows up as a scsi device, i.e. /
dev/sd*. And Knoppix will scan those. As for valid filesystems, you
can boot Knoppix and grep for ext3 to find them:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] grep -B 1 ext3 /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig
vfat|msdos|ntfs) MOUNTOPTS="$MOUNTOPTS,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix" ;;
ext3|ext3|reiserfs|xfs) MOUNTOPTS="$MOUNTOPTS,noatime" ;;
So, you can have a PDI on vfat, msdos, ntfs, ext3, reiserfs, and
xfs. Yes, that is a typo (aka bug) in the code: one of those ext3's
should be an ext2. If you have a PDI on an ext2 filesystem, the fix
is to either convert the filesystem to ext3 using tune2fs or boot
Knoppix into emergency mode, fix the code, and then continue
booting. The other workaround is a remaster.
BTW, although it's not mentioned in the book Hacking Knoppix, I wrote
Appendix A under a Creative Commons License. You can view an earlier
version of what is in the book here:
http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?Knoppix/BootProcess
It talks about the boot process and has a few tips, such as using
multiple PDIs. Enjoy.
Regards,
- Robert
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