Linked by Binh Nguyen on Wed 7th Jan 2004 18:08 UTC
When Knoppix was first released it was heralded as revolutionary in the Linux world. Its autodetection and configuration capabilities were unsurpassed. Many of my colleagues remarked that if 'KNOPPIX can't do it, Linux can't do it'. Theoretically, one would be able to get a Knoppix CD, pop it into an arbitrary system, run it, save one's data to a partition, USB stick, etc....), reboot and the existing system would be left completely as it was before the CD was placed in the system.
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I was under the impression that Knoppix did automounting of USB drives and the like. This worked for CDs, but when I inserted my USB key, it was not mounted, no pretty like icon appeared on the desktop. I had to type mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 which seems a bit silly to do in 2004. Also, the index.html that pops up when you start Knoppix, excepts to find the knoppix cd on /cdrom, mine was in /cdrom1, so it locked for about five minutes before recovering.