The method shown in the previous post worked – now posting from system running from USB stick.
This is a hybrid USB file system – partition one is 750M FAT16, partition two is the rest of the 4G USB stick, formatted as ext2, I believe.
Here are some vital stats copied from a console:
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ sudo su
root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:6e:6c:d0:dc
inet addr:192.168.0.185 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:6eff:fe6c:d0dc/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1512 (1.4 KiB) TX bytes:1536 (1.5 KiB)
Interrupt:22 Base address:0x6000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# host host.earthside.org
host.earthside.org has address 67.43.9.226
root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 716M 645M 71M 91% /mnt-system
tmpfs 1.0G 2.8M 1022M 1% /ramdisk
/dev/cloop 1.7G 1.7G 0 100% /KNOPPIX
unionfs 1.0G 2.8M 1022M 1% /UNIONFS
unionfs 1.0G 2.8M 1022M 1% /home
tmpfs 10M 60K 10M 1% /UNIONFS/var/run
tmpfs 10M 0 10M 0% /UNIONFS/var/lock
tmpfs 100M 48K 100M 1% /UNIONFS/var/log
tmpfs 1.0G 12K 1.0G 1% /tmp
udev 20M 56K 20M 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.0G 4.0K 1.0G 1% /dev/shm
root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# cat /etc/fstab
# DEFAULT BASE FSTAB, UNCONFIGURED
proc /proc proc noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda2 /media/sda2 ext2 noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sr0 /media/sr0 auto ro,noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hdd /media/hdd auto ro,noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hdc /media/hdc auto ro,noauto,users,exec 0 0
root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# cat /etc/mtab
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt-system vfat rw,noatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp850,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=winnt 0 0
tmpfs /ramdisk tmpfs rw,size=1048576k 0 0
/dev/cloop /KNOPPIX iso9660 ro 0 0
unionfs /UNIONFS aufs rw,noatime,si=e57182f3,xino=/ramdisk/.aufs.xino,noplink,br:/ramdisk=rw:/KNOPPIX=ro 0 0
unionfs /home aufs rw,noatime,si=e57182f3,xino=/ramdisk/.aufs.xino,noplink,br:/ramdisk=rw:/KNOPPIX=ro 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /UNIONFS/var/run tmpfs rw,size=10240k 0 0
tmpfs /UNIONFS/var/lock tmpfs rw,size=10240k 0 0
tmpfs /UNIONFS/var/log tmpfs rw,size=102400k 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,size=1048576k 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,size=20480k 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,size=1048576k 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=1777 0 0
root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix#
