[NTG-context] I can't find the format file `cont-nl.fmt'!

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

> pdfetex is obsolete, it's pdftex now (for quite some time already);
> i don't know where knoppix gets its tex from

You could try symlinking

  /etc/texmf/web2c/pdfetex to pdftex

or maybe the other way round.

That trick worked for me when I was using pdftex 1.30.

-Sanjoy

`Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien)