Kanotix 2005-04 Manual
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
In the edit mode of the bootloader GRUB the entries of the menu.lst can be changed during the boot. This is also possible when you run GRUB from the "live-CD" though the menu.lst is write protected. To do this push the "e" key two times. Parameters are added at the end of the line. Following is list of start parameters:
| acpi | off |
disable ACPI Bios completely |
| oldboot |
only enable ACPI parts, which are needed for boot |
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| force |
force ACPI Bios initialization |
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| alsa |
enable Sound system ALSA |
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| alsa | es1938 |
install es1938 driver in the ALSA Sound system |
| apm | off |
disable Advanced Power Management |
| BOOT_IMAGE | expert |
interactive setup for ”Experts” |
| bootfirewire |
boot from Firewire CD |
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| bootscsi |
boot from SCSI drive |
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| bootusb2 |
boot from USB drive |
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| desktop | kde |
choose window manager |
| fluxbox (DVD only) |
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| gnome (DVD only) |
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| icewm |
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| larswm (DVD only) |
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| twm |
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| wmaker |
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| xfce (DVD only) |
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| dma |
enable DMA accelleration for all IDE drives |
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| dpi | XX or auto |
specify DPI |
| failsave |
boot in save mode ((almost) no hardware detection) |
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| firewire |
enable Firewire support |
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| floppyconfig |
run knoppix.sh from floppy |
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| fromhd | /dev/hda1 (hda2,...) |
boot from CD image on hard disk |
| home | /dev/sda1/knoppix.img |
mount loopback file as /home/knoppix |
| scan |
automatic search for kanotix /home directory |
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| hsync | 80 (e.g.) |
use 80 kHz horizontal refresh rate for X |
| ide2 | 0x180 nopcmcia |
boot from PCMCIA-CD-Rom |
| keyboard | us |
specify console keyboard |
| lang | ??? |
cn, de, de-utf8 (only in lite version), da, es, fr, it, nl, pl, ru, sk, tr, tw, us |
| mem | 128MB (e.g.) |
specify Memory size in MByte |
| myconf | /dev/sda1 |
load configuration from device (here sda1) |
| scan |
try to find knoppix.sh automatically |
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| noacpi |
skip ACPI detection |
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| noagp |
skip AGP detection |
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| noapic |
skip APIC detection |
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| noaudio |
skip Audio detection |
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| noautomount |
skip auto mount (2005-04 Lite) |
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| noddc |
skip Monitor detection |
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| nodhcp |
skip dhcp/network broadcast detection |
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| nodma |
disable DMA (Direct Memory Access) accelleration for ALL IDE-Drives |
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| nodvb |
do not load DVB drivers (2005-04-Lite) |
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| noeject |
Do not eject CD after halt |
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| nofc |
skip Fritzcard detection (2005-04 Lite) |
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| nofirewire |
skip Firewire detection |
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| nofloppy |
skip Floppy detection |
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| noisapnpbios |
skip ISA Plug and Play |
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| nomce |
disable Machine Check Exception |
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| noml |
skip Monitor modelines detection |
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| nomodem |
skip winmodem detection (2005-04 Lite) |
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| nopcmcia |
skip PCMCIA detection |
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| nopowernow |
disable Speedstep/Powernow |
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| noscsi |
skip SCSI detection |
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| nosmp |
skip symmetric multi processor or Hyperthreading detection |
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| nosound |
skip sound detection |
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| notouchpad |
skip Touchpad detection |
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| nousb |
skip USB detection |
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| nowhell |
force PS/2 protocol for PS/2 Mouse |
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| pci | noacpi |
skip acpi detection for pci devices |
| quiet |
boot in silent mode |
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| resume | /dev/hdaX |
enable suspend mode |
| resume2 | /dev/hdaX |
enable suspend mode |
| screen | 1280x1024 (e.g.) |
use specified screen resolution for X |
| scsiisa |
enable ISA SCSI driver (2005-04 Lite) |
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| testcd |
Check CD data integrity |
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| unionfs |
enable union fille system |
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| vga | normal |
no-framebuffer mode, but X Codes (see GrubVgaCodes* below) |
| vsync | 60 |
use 60 Hz vertical refresh rate for X |
| xmodule | ati |
use generic ATI driver |
| fbdev |
use generic framebuffer driver |
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| i810 |
use generic intel driver |
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| mga |
use generic Matrox driver |
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| nv |
use generic nvidia driver |
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| radeon |
use generic ATI radeon driver |
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| savage |
use generic S3 savage driver |
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| vesa |
use generic vesa driver |
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| xhrefresh | 80 |
use 80 kHz horizontal refresh rate for X (s. hsync) |
| xvrefresh | 60 |
use 60 Hz vertical refresh rate for X (s. vsync) |
| xkeyboard | us |
specify X keyboard |
*GrubVGACodes: vga options and codes:
hex:
| colours | 640x480 | 800x600 | 1024x768 | 1280x1024 |
| 256 | 0x101 | 0x103 | 0x105 | 0x107 |
| 32k | 0x110 | 0x113 | 0x116 | 0x119 |
| 64k | 0x111 | 0x114 | 0x117 | 0x11A |
| 16M | 0x112 | 0x115 | 0x118 | 0x11B |
dec:
| colours | 640x480 | 800x600 | 1024x768 | 1280x1024 |
| 256 | 257 | 259 | 261 | 263 |
| 32k | 272 | 275 | 278 | 281 |
| 64k | 273 | 276 | 279 | 282 |
| 16M | 274 | 277 | 280 | 283 |
VESA:
| colours | 640x480 | 800x600 | 1024x768 | 1280x1024 | 1600x1200 |
| 256 | 769 | 771 | 773 | 775 | 796 |
| 32k | 784 | 787 | 790 | 793 | 797 |
| 64k | 785 | 788 | 791 | 794 | 798 |
| 16M | 786 | 789 | 792 | 795 | 799 |
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