Re: Knoppix question [HD install inflexibility]

cls_at_truffula.sj.ca.us
Date: 10/29/04

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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:32:03 -0700

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    In article <2Uvt7-24F-15@gated-at.bofh.it>, Paul E Condon wrote:
    > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:46:07AM +0800, Lian Liming wrote:
    >> Hi all,
    >> I wonder if i can install knoppix directly to the hard disk?
    >> I heard that the knoppix is based on debian system. So after
    >> installed the knoppix to hard disk, can i use the "apt " package tools
    >> on it?
    >> Thank you for suggestions!
    >>
    > Yes, you can install Knoppix on hard disk, and make it bootable.
    > The instructions as to how to do it are on the Knoppix disk somewhere.
    > I remember seeing them, but don't remember exactly where.
    > Consider, instead, installing the real Debian. Many people of only modest
    > skill have done it, myself included.

    In a pinch, you can install Knoppix to HD. Get a root shell
    (it's under the fat penguin on the KDE panel) and type
    knoppix-installer

    In older versions of Knoppix, that command was knx-install.

    Be warned, knoppix-installer is not very flexible. It will
    install your whole system in two partitions: one file system
    and one swap. And that setup is buried in the initial ramdisk
    image. Correcting that problem has turned out to be very difficult,
    and I haven't gotten any answers about how to do it from
    the Knoppix.net forums. (How do you make a working Knoppix installation
    with /usr on its own partition?) If you want a Debian system that will
    be easy to maintain and configure, install official Debian.

    See http://gandhi.greens.org/~cls/knoppix***.pdf
    and http://gandhi.greens.org/~cls/knxcd.pdf.
    The latter is in the sleeve when GP of Santa Clara County
    distributes Knoppix. Fold carefully and it will just fit
    in a CD jewel box. 

    -- 
Cameron
http://web.greens.org/~cls/linux/knoppixoffer.shtml
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