Persistent desktop??”You can use the configuration icon to create a persistent KNOPPIX
home directory on your hard disk or other medium so that you can store and reuse your
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desktop setup information and any data you save from session to session. (See the
???Creating a Persistent Home Directory??? section later in this chapter for details on setting
up a persistent desktop.)
Add swap??”If you are using KNOPPIX from a computer with Linux installed, it
automatically uses a swap partition that is set up there. On DOS and Windows systems,
KNOPPIX enables you to create an extra swap area if you have space on an available
DOS partition. (The mkdosswapfile command is used for this purpose.)
Work with Windows files??”KNOPPIX includes drivers for using Microsoft Windows
NTFS file systems. The drivers enable you to read and write files from your hard disk if
you are booting KNOPPIX from a PC with Windows installed. (Writing to NTFS partitions
from KNOPPIX is still considered experimental, so consider using an NTFS partition
in read-only mode if the partition contains critical data.)
For example, say that you have your entire music collection, images downloaded from
your digital camera, and personal Web pages on your hard disk on a computer that was
set up to be booted by Microsoft Windows XP.
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