On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Paul E Condon <pecon...@mesanetworks.net> wrote: > On 20120723_110432, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 04:18:07PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: >> > I have already downloaded Knoppix v7.0.1, per Chris' suggestion, but >> > have not yet found out what to do with it. Does it have memory, >> > component test software on it? >> >> Yes. At boot prompt read help screens. :) > > Using the disk I downloaded yesterday and got burnt today, there is a > fancy KDE gui, but no help screens about such trivia as getting it > working on possibly defective, broken, hardware. I got it working on a > different computer and discovered that it uses UNIONFS to overlay an > record of changes that one makes to files on the root partition.
It only saves stuff to physical disk if you tell it to, IIRC. > But > even on my better computer, I couldn't find a way to exit from Knoppix > gracefully. Shutdown only shut down KDE and left the computer in a > state where it was unresponsive to any keyboard keys that I could > think to try. That's called the power-down state. Many live CDs don't have the complete power manager stuff to cover every mobo's way to turn itself completely off. It should have put a message on the screen about it being safe to turn the power off or re-boot, however. > I had to do a press-and-hold the power button to recover > the use of the computer. When it came back up in Squeeze, the changes > that I had made to a file on the root partition were not there. The > had not been written to real disk during the somewhat brutal shutdown. > > One bright spot for the day. The new memtest+ package in Squeeze has a > nice feature: It edits grub config to included memtest+ image in the > boot menu. With this, one doesn't have to have a working CDROM drive > to do a memtest. I have one running now on the problem box. > > I'll be looking into earlier versions of Knoppix tomorrow. > > > -- > Paul E Condon > pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- Joel Rees -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAr43iM7VXbbcmTDw8qEAGLZoZ1HM2y7cjez=V7XOL9=a6r...@mail.gmail.com