344 Part III . Choosing and (Web hosting companies) Installing a
344 Part III . Choosing and Installing a Linux Distribution . Network card From the squished penguin, select Network/Internet.Network card to configure your Ethernet card (assuming you don t just want to use DHCP to get your network address). . ISDN From the squished penguin, select Network/Internet.ISDN to use ISDN to connect to the network. . Wireless Card From the squished penguin, select Network/Internet.Wavelan to use a wireless Ethernet card to connect to the network. In addition to the interfaces available here, you can use the wvdialconf command to create your dial-out connection as described in Chapter 5. Installing Software in KNOPPIX Despite the fact that KNOPPIX includes a wide range of software applications, there may be some special software package you want to use with it that isn t included. KNOPPIX has a feature for installing software while you are running from the CD that is called the KNOPPIX-Live Installer. To use the KNOPPIX-Live Installer, click the squished penguin on the KNOPPIX panel and select Utilities.Install software. After being warned that this is still experimental software, a list of software that you can install with KNOPPIX-Live Installer appears. The list includes software that can t be freely distributed, such as Flash plug-ins for your browser or NVIDIA drivers for your video cards. Select the software package you want to install. KNOPPIX will try to use the Debian installer to download the selected packages and install them on your computer. Remember that the software is being installed in the version of KNOPPIX that is running in RAM. So, the software will disappear the next time you reboot, unless you do something to preserve your data (such as creating a persistent desktop before you install the software you want to keep). Saving Files in KNOPPIX When you reboot your computer with KNOPPIX, you not only lose KNOPPIX itself, but you lose any data and configuration information you may have created along the way. That s because, by default, KNOPPIX runs from your system s RAM and a nonwritable CD or DVD. Using tools and procedures that come with KNOPPIX, there are ways in which you can keep that information going forward. KNOPPIX happily gives you a login name (knoppix) and a home directory (/home/ knoppix), each time you boot from KNOPPIX. You can save files to that directory, as well as change your desktop and system configuration information (which is stored in that directory and in /etc files). The problem is that those directories are in RAM, so they disappear when you reboot.
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