Kanotix 2005-04 Manual

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Content | 1 What is Kanotix? | 2 How to burn a Kanotix-CD | 3 Installation | 4 Configuration | 5 Kanotix Update | 6 Appendix I | 7 Appendix II


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Table of Content

1 What is Kanotix?

2 How to burn a Kanotix-CD
 2.1 Under Linux
 2.2 Under Windows
 2.3 Trouble Shooting

3 Installation
 3.1 Preparation
 3.2 Hard drive configuration
 3.3 Installing Kanotix

4 Configuration
 4.1 Network and Printer
 4.2 Monitor Settings
 4.3 Graphic Cards Driver Installation
 4.4 Sound Configuration
 4.5 Security
  4.5.1 Introduction
  4.5.2 Firewalls
  4.5.3 Antivirus Tools

5 Kanotix update
 5.1 Installation and updates of programs with KPackage
 5.2 Dist-Upgrade and Kernel-Update with the Kanotix-Update-GUI
  5.2.1 Dist-Upgrade
  5.2.2 Kernel-Update
 5.3 Installation of a new Kanotix version while keeping the system configuration: Update-Installation

6 Appendix I
 6.1 Making a Backup
  6.1.1 Backing up the Windows-Partition with Partition Image (partimage)
  6.1.2 Making an Incremental Backup of a Data Partition using rsync
 6.2 Create a /home directory on another partition
 6.3 Kanotix on Laptops
  6.3.1 Suspend to Disk (Hibernation)
  6.3.2 Boot-Up Manager - A Graphical Runlevel Configuration Tool
  6.3.3 Control Power-Saving Mode on AMD Athlon / Duron CPUs
 6.4 What is an MD5 check sum?
 6.5 Help and useful links

7 Appendix II
  Cheatcodes


Content | 1 What is Kanotix? | 2 How to burn a Kanotix-CD | 3 Installation | 4 Configuration | 5 Kanotix Update | 6 Appendix I | 7 Appendix II