Re: Install on small HDD

From: Maria Ripanykhazova (dontresponddirectly_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:58:58 -0500

But can I not transfer the files from the CD ROM onto this particular hard
drive?

"big-forum.com" <not@for.all> wrote in message
news:FtOdnaHHG-_IK3vcRVn-tQ@comcast.com...
> first of all,
> upgrade your knoppix version to current one - 3.7 and you will enjoy it
more
> :)
>
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> http://www.big-forum.com
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>
> "Maria Ripanykhazova" <dontresponddirectly@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:7sGdnYLBWr2fLXvcRVn-tw@rcn.net...
> >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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