VMware/Knoppix/Math HowTo

Booting options
Setting keyboard
Suspend and resume
File sharing with Windows

Booting options

After the BIOS screen is displayed, a booting menu is displayed and you can choose an appropriate one by using up-arrow and down-arrow keys. To modify the selected configuration, press 'e'. To edit the command line options, choose 'kernel' and press 'e'. The editing commands are much like those on UNIX or Windows.

Here are several important options:

lang=name
Set the language, the keyboard and the timezone. Examples of name are ja,cn,de,da,es,fr,it,nl,pl,ru,sk,tr,tw,us.
noregen
On each booting operation, 'ldconfig' and 'depmod' are executed, which take rather long time. These are necessary only after a new application is installed and we can skip them by adding 'noregen' to the command line. Note that these commands can be executed by hand after booting the system.
xscreen=rowxcol
Set the screen size to the specified value. If the specified size is not listed in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, then the setting is void.

After editing the command line, press 'enter' to fix the change and press 'b' to boot the operating system. If you want to change a menu entry permanently, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst after booting the system.

Setting keyboard

If you want to change the keyboard setting, click the flag icon at the bottom-right of the display several times until you find your favorite one. You may also have to change the keyboard model. This is possible by clicking the flag by the right mouse button and invoking the configuration tool.

Suspend and resume

You can suspend the virtual machine by pressing the close button at the top-right of the VMware player window. To resume the suspended virtual machine, simply invoke it from the player. This is very useful when you have to shutdown or reboot Windows.

File sharing with Windows

Then you can read and write the directory '/home/knoppix/samba from Windows. Note that the machine name 'knoppix' is valid only if the network setting is 'NAT'.