Tim Wilson wrote: > On 9/3/04 8:49 PM, "Scot Jenkins" <scot at thinkunix.net> wrote: > > > A late reply here, but I've found having a Knoppix cdrom can be really > > handy for identifying hardware (such as your raid controller) or for > > figuring out which partition is the / (root) partition. > > Unfortunately in my case, the Knoppix CD I used didn't seem to detect the > RAID hardware in this system. It didn't do much good. > > On a related note... > > The Knoppix CD does a fantastic job of setting up a text-only environment > with perfectly sized text, good color combinations, and a VESA framebuffer. > How can I figure out the settings that Knoppix is using so I can apply them > to this server? Setting up a nice text-only environment isn't something I've > delved into much before. Try mounting the knoppix cdrom and poking around under /etc. Surely there's some config file magic going on in there. I'd start with /etc/profile, /etc/default(s)/*, /etc/init.d/*. Personally, I'm happy with the non-framebuffer 80x25 consoles, but I value my eyesight. "Screen sizes is inversely proportional to font size." (the bigger the monitors are, the smaller the fonts.) -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list