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Once you re ready to proceed, place the DVD that came with this book (or aKnoppix CD-ROM) into your DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive and reboot the ma- chine. If you re using the DVD that came with this book, press Enter at the bootprompt. If you don t see a boot prompt, see Appendix B. After you re fully in your Knoppix desktop, complete the following steps. If you re using a newer version of Knoppix than the one that comes with thisbook, the instructions for the latest version are available online athttp://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html. 1.Press the key combination Ctrl-Alt-F1 to exit the GUI and enter command-line mode. You can use F1 through F6 to do this from any version of Linux. Cool, huh? To get back, simply press Ctrl-Alt-F7 or Ctrl-Alt-F8. Whether it s 7 or 8varies from version to version, so try 7 and if that doesn t work, use 8.2.If you see a bunch of colorful text but no prompt (which will look likeroot@tty1[/]#), press Enter to pull up the prompt. 3.Type /KNOPPIX/usr/sbin/knx2hdThe screen turns blue and the Initialisation of Knoppix-Installation screenappears. (Initialisation is the UK spelling of the American and CanadianInitialization.) 4.Press Enter. The Knoppix Main-Menu screen appears. 5.Use your up and down arrows to select Configure Installation andpress Enter. The Choose System Type screen appears. 6.Use your up and down arrows to select Beginner and press Enter. The Creating Knoppix Configuration Step (1/7) screen appears. 7.Use your up and down arrows to select the partition you want toinstall Knoppix in, press the space bar to mark that partition, andthen press Enter. The Creating Knoppix Configuration Step (2/7) screen appears. 8.Type your full name in the format Firstname Lastname and press Enter. The Creating Knoppix Configuration Step (3/7) screen appears. 9.If you don t want to use the suggested login name, change it here andthen press Enter. The Creating Knoppix Configuration Step (4/7) screen appears. 10.Type this login account s password and press Enter. The text box goes blank, but the screen doesn t otherwise change. 385Chapter 21: Ten CoolUses for Knoppix29_