Knoppix Pocket Reference Troubleshoot, Repair, and Disinfect Both Linux and Windows

Name: Knoppix Pocket Reference Troubleshoot, Repair, and Disinfect Both Linux and Windows
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ISBN: 9780596100759

ISBN-10: 0596100752

ISBN-13: 9780596100759

Edition: 2005

Authors: Kyle Rankin

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Knoppix is a portable Linux distribution replete with hundreds of valuable programs and utilities -- a veritable Swiss Army knife in bootable CD form. It includes Linux software and desktop environments, automatic hardware detection and hundreds of other quality open source programs. Whether you're a system administrator or power user, you can use Knoppix for many different purposes. Knoppix boots and runs completely from a single CD so you don't need to install anything to your hard drive. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it. What you do need, however, is a comprehensive reference guide so you can benefit from all that…

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List price: $9.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 92
Size: 4.25" wide x 6.93" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.176
Language: English

Kyle Rankin is a system administrator for The Green Sheet, Inc., the current president of the North Bay Linux Users Group, and the author of Knoppix Hacks. Kyle has been using Linux in one form or another since early 1998. In his free time he does pretty much the same thing he does at work--works with Linux.



Introduction


Conventions Used in This Book


How to Contact Us


Cheat Codes


Kernel Modes


Check RAM for Errors with Memtest86+


X Settings


Kiosk Mode


Hardware Codes


Framebuffer Support


Free Up the CD-ROM


Special Knoppix Tools


Persistent Settings


Window Manager Memory Requirements


Swap File Configuration


Network Configuration


Knoppix Terminal Server


Samba Server


Live Software Installer


Create Boot Floppies


Run Programs as Root


Install Knoppix to the Hard Drive


Image or Erase a Drive


Image a Damaged Drive


Securely Erase Drives


Linux Security Response


Check for rootkits


Collect Forensics Data


Linux System Repair


Repair lilo and grub


The grub Command Line


Repair Filesystem Errors


Restore a Partition Table


Chroot into Systems


General Hardware Probing


Windows System Repair


Back Up Important Files


Write to FAT and FAT32


Write to NTFS


Scan for Viruses


Edit the Windows Registry


Remaster Knoppix


Prepare the Source Filesystem


Package Management


Interesting Configuration Files


Make the Master CD Filesystem


Experimental Features


UnionFS


UnionFS Persistence


Final Words


Acknowledgments


Index