Okay, I'm just sitting here in awe of Knoppix at the moment, and I have to fire off a message to tell y'all about it.
So I'm ripping my LoTR audio CD's to Speex, and I'm getting random
SCSI errors. Of course, I'm running 2.6.0-test8, and the TEAC CDRW
drive is on the same bus at my Deskstar. Any time pages swap out to
disk while I'm ripping an audio CD, everything goes haywire, and then
it kind of recovers after 20 seconds or so. It's all working anyway
(with occasional pauses and moments of unresponsiveness), but no flaky
kernel issues ever phase me anymore. I persist.
So to make a long story short, my root filesystem gets blown away.
Well, not exactly, but I get funky IOCTL errors on certain files in
on the device, and I can't delete some files as root because I don't
have permission. X starts acting funny, and I can't log in anymore.
fsck says ``everythin's fine and dandy!'' Then I remember why I keep
my root and home partitions separate. ;-)
So I pop in my trusty Knoppix 3.3 CD and reboot. Everything comes to
life. I remake the root partition and run a bad block scan on the
device (no problems). Then I run this cool little knx-hdinstall
program, click a few buttons, watch as everything copies over, and
then reboot.
Before I go on, allow me to explain what the heck I've got on my
system.
- Matrox g450
- LCD monitor
- Sony DVD+-R/+-RW ATAPI drive
- TEAN CD-R/RW ATAPI drive
- Hollywood+/DXR3 TV-out MPEG2 decoder card
- WinTV card
- Webcam Pro EX (usb)
- CMPCI audio chipset (w/ digital audio out)
- USB 2.0
- Advansys SCSI card w/ Artec flatbed scanner
- 400MB Floppy Tape Backup drive (anyone want it? just pay
shipping...)
- Ethernet card
Okay, so now that you have an idea about what I have in there, I'd
just like you to know that *it all worked*. I mean, I just installed
Knoppix, restarted the machine, and everything was working. Audio, 3d
acceleration, WinTV card, everything. I could then apt-get anything
extra I wanted.
I am an official Knoppix convert. From this point forward, I will
*only* be installing Knoppix at install fests. It's Debian, only it's
easy and fast to install and configure...
Mike
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Michael A. Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Security Software Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center
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