Sex offenders web site - Chapter 21Ten Cool Uses for KnoppixIn This Chapter
Chapter 21Ten Cool Uses for KnoppixIn This Chapter Rescuing files off a dead machine Testing, testing! Carrying around a portable Linux desktop Installing KnoppixUntil you walk a mile in another man s moccasins you can t imagine thesmell. Robert ByrneLiveCDs are a great way to experiment with Linux in general, or a particu- lar distribution of Linux, because many of them offer a live version fordownload or purchase. Because Knoppix is recommended as the LiveCD touse for pre-installation tasks in this book, I thought I would make sure to giveyou some more fun things you can do with this CD-ROM so that you don t feellike you wasted your time burning it! I won t even do what my husband sug- gested and make one of the ten entries being to use the disk as a frisbee, because I d hate for you to feel cheated out of something truly cool. Rescuing Files off of a Machine that Won t BootOne cool use for Knoppix is to recover the important files that might be left ona messed up computer that otherwise won t boot. You can use Knoppix for thistask whether those files are in Linux or Windows (even on an NTFS partition!). Then you can either e-mail the files to yourself you can find a simple e-mailprogram in the main menu where you choose Internet.KMail or attach aUSB storage device to the machine and copy the data onto it.