A couple of Knoppix questions in regard to a few problems.

[CodyOebel]

Note #1: ISP - Cricket Cellular Broadband Internet (Air Card)
-> No available linux drivers or compatability.

Note #2: While in windows I use internet connection sharing to my NIC. If I insert the Knoppix Live DVD. Go to my DVD-ROM drive, and click on QEMU, and start the virtualize Knoppix ONLY THEN CAN I GET MY KNOPPIX DISTRO ONLINE!

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Q1: While in this virtualized environment I could not locate my hard drive which is running my windows environment. Is there a reason for this? The normal hda1 did not show up.

Q2: I installed my distrobution to a USB flash drive, and can boot into my Knoppix via removable media set as the first boot device just fine. However since I cannot get online using my air-card within knoppix. I must do updates via windows, or through QEMU. My problem is while in QEMU(vrtl-Knoppix), or windows. If I want to update my CLAMAV signatures I cant!
I could not locate or make sense of how I could get the most current up to date CLAMAV files.

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MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION
Where is all my programs installed to? Where is their application data? For example if I download while booted into windows a package update. Where do I install it to? Or if I use the dpkg command where do these files go?

I try to google these subjects, but get scattered answers as I am searching for Knoppix related. Maybe this is a generalized linux question? Either way any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[yancek]

I don't know why you are trying to do this but it will be problematical. Knoppix was meant and designed to be run as a Live CD/DVD. The below quote is from the knoppix.net site, to read more click the link below.

Unless you are very familiar with the Debian's packaging model of stable, testing, and unstable, please do not install Knoppix to your harddrive. If you wish to install Linux to your hard drive, try Debian

HD Install Warning not to do it - Knoppix Documentation Wiki

[CodyOebel]

I don't know why you are trying to do this but it will be problematical. Knoppix was meant and designed to be run as a Live CD/DVD. The below quote is from the knoppix.net site, to read more click the link below.

Unless you are very familiar with the Debian's packaging model of stable, testing, and unstable, please do not install Knoppix to your harddrive. If you wish to install Linux to your hard drive, try Debian

I guess in a sense I was choosing to use Knoppix as a linux distrobution. I did not install it on my hard drive. I installed it on my USB 8GB flash drive. I have windows xp pro installed on my primary SATA hard drive.

So would you then suggest I install fedora, or ubuntu to my USB flash drive in the event I then want to install it to my entire SATA hard drive as a better linux distrobution choice?

[yancek]

As stated at the knoppix site, knoppix is not designed to be used as a permanent hard drive installation for the reasons listed there. It is an excellent tool on a flash drive/CD/DVD.

You also asked about where programs you downloaded were installed. If you installed the knoppix Live CD to your flash drive, it was probably not persistent so nothing is saved (you didn't indicate whether you did?). If you download in windows you would not be able to move/copy anything to a Linux drive as windows by default is not capable of writing to Linux without installing some third party software.

If you are looking for a Desktop version of Linux, go to distrowatch. They have a list of the most popular as well as the top 100 and there are links to all where you can get more detailed information on any. If you are thinking about using a particular distribution, go the their website and chech the minimum hardware requirements to see if it will work on your computer.

There are several sites where you can enter information about what you want and they will recommend a distribution based on that. Google Linux chooser or choosing a Linux system.

You can download and try for free or use some Virtual software so you don't have to burn a CD for each.