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  • Knoppix (Was: Unsettling bash tutorial)

    From gazelle@gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) to comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc on Tue Mar 17 00:56:15 2026
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    In article <n1rl99F5dtcU1@mid.individual.net>,
    rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    ...
    Knoppix is still around. Like Tails I don't think you can install it so I >can't play with it is a VM.

    I assume that by "You can't install it", you mean that you can only boot it from the CD (that is, use it as a "live CD"). But can't you just make an
    ISO from the CD (*) and then install that as a virtual CD under VMware or VirtualBox or whatever and then boot from that and have it be essentially
    the same as booting from a hard disk?

    (*) Or simply use the original .ISO file that you made the CD from in the
    first place.

    Also, the one thing I loved about Knoppix in the old days was when it
    booted into KDE and that version of KDE has the best Sokoban game I've ever seen or played. I miss that game a lot. Do you know if the current
    versions of KDE and/or Knoppix still have that wonderful game?
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc on Tue Mar 17 06:05:09 2026
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    On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:56:15 -0000 (UTC), Kenny McCormack wrote:

    In article <n1rl99F5dtcU1@mid.individual.net>,
    rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    ...
    Knoppix is still around. Like Tails I don't think you can install it so
    I can't play with it is a VM.

    I assume that by "You can't install it", you mean that you can only boot
    it from the CD (that is, use it as a "live CD"). But can't you just
    make an ISO from the CD (*) and then install that as a virtual CD under VMware or VirtualBox or whatever and then boot from that and have it be essentially the same as booting from a hard disk?

    Right. I should try it again.

    https://tails.net/doc/advanced_topics/virtualization/virt-manager/ index.en.html

    The iso runs but I couldn't install it to the virtual disk. It would
    defeat the purpose anyway.
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