[Quantian-general] Scripts & data

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 17 January 2007 at 11:00, Richard Carter wrote:
| Until Debian 4.0 comes out I want to use Quantian on my AMD64 Mandriva 2007
| Powerpack box.  I  also want to use it on 32-bit Windows boxes.  All these
| PCs have R and gretl scripts and data on their hard drives.  How do I get
| Quantian to "see" these files?

That should happen automagically.  Knoppix is pretty good at finding all
existing partitions and devices.  So if your windoze c:/ and d:/ are, say,
/dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1 on your computer, you should see icons on the desktop.
Just click on the icon, and you're in file browse mode.

Note though that windoze partitions are read-only. You cannot reliably write
to them; supposedly that riddle has been solved in the latest Knoppix but I
haven't tested that yet.

Cheers, Dirk

-- 
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. 
                                                  -- Thomas A. Edison