Re: Install on small HDD

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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:20:24 +0530

On 01/13/05 22:59, 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

No, not that easy for a newbie; Knoppix, Mepis and, or Ubunto LiveCD
contain approximately 5 gigabytes of software packages compressed to fit
all that on to 640/700 megabyte CD's. IMHO, upgrading your hard drive is
must, if you really want to enjoy a Linux installation on an HDD; it
will run much faster from a hard drive.

> 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.

By default, Knoppix's auto hardware detection script might be looking
for a DHCP server to configure your WiFi card; you may enter IP,
NETMASK, BROADCAST and DNS entries manually too.

> 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.

No again, because of a limited space available on your hard drive; you
may install any distro excluding X and most of GUI apps, that mean you
will have to live with CLI only.

> 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?

Yes, you can connect it to Internet and, or WiFi net.

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