Questions tagged [knoppix]
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Odd memtest86/boot problems on linux machine
I run Debian Lenny 64-bit on an HP server with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It boots with LILO rather than GRUB because it has an XFS root partition. Up until today it had 3 GB (2x 512MB and 2x 1GB) of ECC RAM. I have been getting ECC errors…
Bryan
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Mounting encrypted drive/partition on Linux
I have a Laptop, on which the OS has got corrupted and gives a system32\config not found error.
To recover my data, I can boot it using Knoppix but I am not able to mount my partition.
My partition is NTFS encrypted with McAfee Endpoint encryption.…
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WANem doesn't boot after install
I'm using WANem live cd (based on knoppix) to perform network bandwidth tests. In order to keep the current configuration, I've installed it on hard disk (using the gui installation tool provided since v3) on VMWare ESX. The installation ended up…
Cramix
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Debian ignores static IP assignment
My etc/network/interfaces file originally only included info regarding lo:
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
ifconfig shows me that eth0 is getting an IP from DHCP.
Here's what I want to do instead:
create a bridge…
E C
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When copying VM filesystem over netcat, dd copies double the disk size
I'm attempting to copy the disk of a working headless virtualbox VM (VM1) on one server to a new VM (VM2) on a vCloud server. I don't have access to the host of VM2.
The OS is Windows Server 2003 (32-bit)
I start both VMs with a live Knoppix…
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Slow performance from KNOPPIX
I'm using KNOPPIX to erase some HDs prior to decommissioning PCs. The command to do this is quite simple:
dd bs=4096 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
(Or maybe /dev/sha, depending on what kind of drive it is.)
When I initially boot KNOPPIX, it seems…
MathematicalOrchid
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How can I run a shell script upon system shutdown in a Knoppix Live system?
I want to run a shell script upon system shutdown in Knoppix Live (which runs from a writable USB flash drive) so that I can backup some data and ftp it to a remote server. The script works fine but I'm not sure where to put it so that it executes…
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How to start up bind9 server
I tried everything to start bind9 server and I finally found this> run named -g
I do not know what else to do.
root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# named -g
06-Oct-2020 20:34:13.743 starting BIND 9.11.5-P4-5.1+deb10u2-Debian (Extended Support Version)…
