Define "real rescue disk". If your drive is fubared and swap part. is damaged, then it won't mount it. If you have a Winders PC and no swap, it won't detect or use one. Where's the problem in that? If you want to repartition or use some bit level recovery tools, use noswap. If the FAT is damaged, then you couldn't use the swap and it wouldn't be detected.
For the average user, with Winders only, no special attention is req'd.
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.
--- Brian Kelsay Brian.Kelsay@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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