A little help with using Linux

I have set up a memory drive for my personal use for at home and work
use. << I find I need my files and stuff at both locations >>

I using the Knoppix 3.3 build CD and am booting with "knoppix
home=/dev/sdb1" for a persistant home directory/drive.

All is well with this setup. It seams to work just like an installed
version except for passwords (USB drive is PW protected (no problem
though)).

At work I am connected to the net through the NAT gateway and through a
firewall. At home I have this computer just dial into my internet
connection. All seems to be OK with this.

My wife's computer is usually connected to the net through this machine
using NAT. Now with knoppix running on it, it no longer passes through
her IP traffic. How can I set knoppix to allow this as a NAT connection
point? I'm trying to stay out of Win2000 as much as possible. Need it
only for games and such.

Also, I could use some application recommendations as to catalogging and
managing OGG (a lot of) and MP3 (only a few) files. I am a registered
user of the JRiver Media Center Version 9. So, those of you who know
this program can understand how spoiled I am about my music catalog. :)

Knoppix has the players for these files but I haven't found anything
that does a good job of catalogging and organizing.

Also, I could use something to replace my "Advanced Disc Catalog"
program too, now that I'm thinking about it.

My main reason for wanting to go more onto Linux is due to all the
viruses and exploits that seem to plague Windows. And I also don't like
what I've been reading about that Longhorn thingy that Microsoft wants
to shove up my ass! That ain't gonna happen, so here I am.

Now that it's on my mind... We REALLY need to find a way to boot
Win2000 or Win98 from a CD. So we can put Linux on the hard drive and
play the Win games from a custom CD.

OK I'm done.

On 2004-04-14, Kenneth Lantrip <nunya@bidny.ok> wrote:[color=blue]
>
> At work I am connected to the net through the NAT gateway and through a
> firewall. At home I have this computer just dial into my internet
> connection. All seems to be OK with this.
>
> My wife's computer is usually connected to the net through this machine
> using NAT. Now with knoppix running on it, it no longer passes through
> her IP traffic. How can I set knoppix to allow this as a NAT connection
> point? I'm trying to stay out of Win2000 as much as possible. Need it
> only for games and such.[/color]

Can't help you with that, I'm not much of a networking expert.[color=blue]
>
> Also, I could use some application recommendations as to catalogging and
> managing OGG (a lot of) and MP3 (only a few) files. I am a registered
> user of the JRiver Media Center Version 9. So, those of you who know
> this program can understand how spoiled I am about my music catalog.
> :)[/color]

I'm 4500+ ogg files strong and growing. Best I've found so far are

[url]http://yammi.sourceforge.net/[/url]

[url]http://madman.sourceforge.net/[/url]

For a different (complementary in my opinion) approach, try

[url]http://lplayer.sourceforge.net/[/url]

This is a semi-random player that computes your ratings of the song to
play the better rated songs more often.[color=blue]
>
> Also, I could use something to replace my "Advanced Disc Catalog"
> program too, now that I'm thinking about it.[/color]

Not sure what you are referring to with that. It may be something like
cdcat or gtktalog. [url]http://freshmeat.net[/url] is your friend when you want to
locate open source projects.[color=blue]
>
> Now that it's on my mind... We REALLY need to find a way to boot
> Win2000 or Win98 from a CD. So we can put Linux on the hard drive and
> play the Win games from a custom CD.
>[/color]
I never really heard about such beast as a windows live system on CD.
Your best approach may be to shrink the windows partition (try parted,
preferably through one of its frontends, such as
[url]http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/[/url]) and install both things in the same
hard drive, with a multi boot system. It's too much to go on in a
newspost, but see the howtos at the Linux Documentation Project (also
one of your best friends):
[url]http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html[/url]

--
Ivan Fernández
[email]ivan.fernandez@vanderbilt.edu[/email]

Ivan Fernandez wrote:

< snipped for brievity >


Ivan, you have been a most excellent help. I have placed your reply
into my Kept Items Folder for permanent reference. Thanks a heap!

Kenneth

Kenneth Lantrip wrote:[color=blue]
>
> At work I am connected to the net through the NAT gateway and through a
> firewall. At home I have this computer just dial into my internet
> connection. All seems to be OK with this.
>
> My wife's computer is usually connected to the net through this machine
> using NAT. Now with knoppix running on it, it no longer passes through
> her IP traffic. How can I set knoppix to allow this as a NAT connection
> point? I'm trying to stay out of Win2000 as much as possible. Need it
> only for games and such.[/color]

You need to set up IP-Masquerading on the Knoppix machine by the sounds
of it. Se the HOWTO at:

[url]http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/index.html[/url]

John-Paul Stewart wrote:
[color=blue]
> You need to set up IP-Masquerading on the Knoppix machine by the sounds
> of it. Se the HOWTO at:
>
> [url]http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/index.html[/url][/color]

That's what I needed. Thanks.