Re: Install on small HDD

From: big-forum.com (not_at_for.all)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:56:39 -0500

first of all,
upgrade your knoppix version to current one - 3.7 and you will enjoy it more
:) 

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"Maria Ripanykhazova" <dontresponddirectly@nowhere.com> wrote in message 
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>I have used knoppix 3.1 with varying degrees of success (finding it a
> user-friendly system?) and now have a
> Compaq Armada M700  Pentium 111 with only a 700 Meg hard drive.
>
> I was wondering if I could install this OS from the CD onto the hard drive
> somehow OR if this was the best version of Linux to do this with OR if it
> was the best version of Knoppix to do it with? (I tried asking on the
> Knoppix board but there wasn't anyone there who knew or could speak
> English?) I am a bit worried that whereas it does work from a 700 meg 
> CDROM,
> there is an install process for getting it onto a hard drive which says 
> you
> need to have 3.` gig of space to do this, whatever that means
>
> I tried one later version which says it is network-enabled as 3.1 seems to
> see and install my WiFi card (a Buffalo WILL-PCM-L11GP which it seems to
> recognise as a generic Orinoco card which I cant figure out how to get to
> connect to my network??) but I have never managed to get the later version
> to get past some screen with a tiger's face on it, describing itself as 
> some
> type of network screen.
>
> Can Knoppix be put on a hard drive or are there better Linux distributions
> for this purpose which are as user friendly?  The only other one I have
> which I have never dared to install is the Mandrake 10.1 from Personal
> Computer World which says it is only an upgrade to an already existing
> installation of 10.0.
>
> BTW if I am a newbie to all this,   is it VERY UNLIKELY INDEED that I am
> going to be able to network this computer into either my XP network 
> through
> my WiFi installation or connect to the Internet with it?
>
>
>

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