Thanks, Roger!  Knoppix s is REALLY COOL.  I suggest it to anyone who's
considering the Switch(tm)... to Real Computing.  It is an impressive
system, and I am curious to know more about what else it is capable of,
when "installed".  My boss has been trying to learn bits-N-pieces of
linux for a while now, and (after recovering some critical data when
nothing else worked) he is finally ready for a dual-boot setup.  Can
anyone suggest some "simplistic" routines for making use of those silly
.pst file backups and also the "Favorites"??  I speak of outlook and
explorer files, for those purists among you.  Maybe some fancy
conversion scripts to make .pst's into mbox's or something?  I think I
can get explorer favorites migrated with a DB bookmark management tool
called bookmark4u (a fabulous sourceforge project)...  Suggestions?

Note on knoppix:  I wanted to do some root operations, right off the
bat, and was a little frustrated (but also pleased) that they didn't
make it easy (for those like me who didn't RTFM to find out the root
password!)... but I could in fact do anything I wanted through the
appropriate GUI:  for example, clicking on a drive mounted it, and
unmounting is also possible from the GUI.

I don't know anything about knoppix, and will surely do some reading
online, but if someone could post a couple links pertaining to
installation of knoppix (so it can save some config files, and hopefully
even emails and documents too, although a designated directory on the
windoze partition will suffice if nothing else, but I'd like to
configure the samba workgroup, web proxy server, etc)

BTW, the recovered system system will be re-installed very soon, so any
info on using knoppix as the linux part of the dual-boot would be
timely; otherwise I'd prolly use redhat since I am familiar...

ciao and cheers, all, thanks for the support!

   Ben

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 15:10, Ben Barrett wrote:
> Tim or Roger, whomever gets to EFN first, I'd appreciate that -- I'll
> swing by in a while and see if I can find it... Thanks a bunch!!
> I should be able to return it tomorrow.  Thanks a lot, guys!
> 
> On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 14:27, Ben Barrett wrote:
> > Howdy folks, I am in need of a knoppix CD ASAP, (am d/ling from the
> > bendug ftp but am only 1/10 done, and have only 650MB blanks here
> > anyway!) so if someone has a copy that they are not using this
> > afternoon, I'd love to prove how useful it is!!! I need to backup a
> > broken machine over the network or to the burner, and the host OS is
> > trashed.  I already tried PLAC (which IS very cool, but doesn't seem to
> > want me to use the PCMCIA network card), and redhat's rescue mode (which
> > doesn't have ssh/scp or samba, bummer)... am trying RIP and LNX-BBC
> > mini-distro's in the meantime.  Please reply to this email with any
> > leads, or feel free to call me at the office:  484.9235, ask for Ben.
> > 
> > Thanks, all!
-- 
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