does Knoppix support reading AND writing to NTFS paritions? Or is an additional kernel module required?

Cheers,

Read only.
Check here: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3.2

-kwag

I have no idea how the partitions are seen in knoppix, but I gues they yust showup on your kde-desktop.
If you mount as partition as user, that user has control over the partition (if alls well)
unless: knoppix is standard configured to read-only to prevent U (the unexperienced linux user) to screw up your windows instalation. (this is probably the problem) or unless you write partition is NTFS since ntfs-write support is highly unstable.
If you have a dual sytem, the best thing you can do is create a fat32 partition for sharing your files between win and lin.
From the icon on the kde desktop you can set preferences for mounting R or R/W from commandline it's something like:
Wich mount the first partition of the first disk on the /mnt/windows directory.

I'am very glad to see that linux is gaiming interest, but personaly I think that linux usage discussions are a bit off-topic.
There are thousends of news-groups available in different languiges where you can ask questions about linux in general and the usage...

Hello Japie:

You are correct. Perhaps a "linux" thread should be open in this forum and newbies like myself will post there our questions and possible solutions to such linux questions. I am also posting my questions in the linux.iso forum, so far no one has answer the firewire question that I placed there.
As mentioned in an earlier post, Knoppix is seeing, and have mounted hda1 and hda5, but my problem is that it can not see the external drive, nor can it see the dvd recorder; however, I was able to learn that knoppix is seeing the firewire card, but is not using it. I am guessing, that linux wants to see the "drive" for the machines in question, but do not know for sure if this the case.

Sorry for tainting this thread with question regarding linux.

Totonho03

Hi Otto,

Have you looked here ;) http://www.linux1394.org/

-kwag

Will do :)

-kwag

Hi Kwag:

No, I had no idea that this existed. I just took a quick peak at their site, and it appears that they may have the answers that I am looking for. So far, what I know fore sure, is that the usbcore, hte ohci 1394 and the ieee 1394, are being detected by knoppix. However, it appears that USBcore is the only one being used, (I see a 1 under use for the USB, and 0 for the other 2)..

Thank you for the help

Otto

Thank you kwag. This linux OS may just take off.............

Otto

That would be nice, however personaly I alwas prefer a news server, it's a lot faster and needs a lot less bandwith, I already looked for a way to feed the kvcd-bbforum in a local news server but that's not possible :-(
What kind off external drive are you refering to?
In case off the dvd-recorder, normaly any cd/dvd/r/rw is seen as normal cd/dvd read-only drive, you need a program to burn with it.
Fire-wire is a story apart, but I have no clue about that..

Hi japie:

The external drive is a Western Digital, 120 Giga USB/Firewire version. Both the W.D. drive and the dvd writter are connected to the main computer via firewire. If you are interested in firewire for linux, then you should check the link that kwag posted above.

Thanks

Totonho

P.S.- This is going to be my last linux post here. From now on I will use the newly created linux thread. Thanks again kwag.