Knoppix question

[Leo Mauler]

--- Brian Kelsay <Brian.Kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:

> Define "real rescue disk".  If your drive is fubared
> and swap part. is damaged, then it won't mount it. 

Does it really have that level of detection?  I'd
think it doesn't, and that undetected physical damage
is going to cause problems when it tries to mount the
swap partition in the physically damaged section of
the hard drive.
 
> Brian Kelsay
> 
> >>> Leo Mauler <> 12/30/04 02:18PM >>>
> So to use it as a real rescue disk, you have to use
> the "noswap" KNOPPIX cheat code at the boot prompt.
> 
> --- Brian Kelsay <> wrote:
> 
> > Read the post.  From version 3.3 on, Knoppix
> > auto-detects and uses Linux Swap partitions if
> > found.  No key presses.  If you want to alter the
> > disk, as I said, you have to use "noswap" so that
> > Knoppix runs without a swap file.  If you have
> > anything mounted on the drive, you can't
> > repartition w/ qtparted or parted.


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