Re: Install on small HDD

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

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:14:41 -0500

yes, u can:
http://big-forum.com/viewtopic.php?p=44#44 

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"Maria Ripanykhazova" <dontresponddirectly@nowhere.com> wrote in message 
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> 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
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>> 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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