On Wednesday, February 12, 2003 3:27 PM, Keith Watson wrote:
Ian Douglas wrote: ...[snipo]...
I am running Knoppix 3.1 (installed on my hard disk rather than running off a CD)
Hmm... could it be a permissions problem? are all your groups set up correctly and is your user a member?
Or, because the CDROM filesystem is read only the read only permissions might have been transferred when copied on your disk. Similar to when you copy files from a CD in Windoze all the files have the read flag set. What command did you use to copy the CD files to the HD? With luck 'The Wise Ones' who frequent this list will let us know what you need to do to circumvent this ('cause I don't :o) ).
Thanks for your suggestions Keith. I think though perhaps my last message wasn't very clear. My problem is not with installing Knoppix; I installed it onto my hard disk (using the knx-install command) a couple of months ago and have been using it happily every day since. My problem is rather that I noticed XWindows (or more correctly kdm?) would not start when I booted it as normal this morning, then, on checking /var/adm/messages I discovered all the error messages I mentioned in my last posting. It worked ok yesterday, these errors only appeared this morning. I am wondering if these errors are easy to fix, or whether it would be simplest to just reinstall.
Sorry for any confusion folks!
Ian.