Re: Install on small HDD
From: Dave (NO_SPAM_drobbins_at_drobbins.net)
Date: 01/13/05
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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:55:14 -0500
Why don't you install a distro that is intended to be put on your
hard-drive?
Knoppix is a great tool, but it's specifically configured to run off a CD
I use redhat/fedora and during the install it shows you a list of different
packages and lets you pick what you want to install and tells you how much
space it takes. I'm sure other distros do similar.
check out
some distro's are specifically configured to run on small hard-drives
Maria Ripanykhazova wrote:
> 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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