Not a solution, just a coment... If your already going through all this trouble why not jump to Knoppix 3.8? Quoting ec : > Yeah, run that on MY system, but this is the wife's > and she wont run/use any FULLY installed system. She > first learned on Knoppix and that is that! > > SOOO, I need to get a "poor man's Install' which is > basically a boot from cdrom of a mirrored image of the > iso. That is as close to a 'install' as she will go. > We had 3.6, but I made the mistake of giving her a 3.7 > disk. She then got the wild hair to wipe the drive and > put it on there as the only item. > > Somehow, I cannot get the boot process to mirror it > onto the hd! You should be able to do: > > boot: knoppix26 tohd /dev/hde1 > > And then when it prints out the colored stuff (about > 4th line or so) that says something like accessing > cdrom, it then says something like: > > Copying cdrom to hde1, please wait. > > But it just skips right on by that and brings it up > with the usual kernal 2.6.9 and runs off the cdrom. > > The usual thing is that IF it is mirrored, it is > faster, much so, and the cdrom is free'd up right > after the very first two lines after you hit the enter > at > > boot: knoppix fromhd statement. > > That allows you to use the burner and etc. > > But what I am wondering is why it wont see the hd and > just skips over the command without commet/error/etc.? > > Is it something in the setup of the reformatted hd? > Not sure. or what??? It wont write to the logical > partitions... gives errors about writing when you try > to save something even when booted up and running off > the cdrom!! > > Makes me think something is messed up in the > format/whatever. > > I am running a different machine right now booted up > with the very same iso. md5sums checked out okay and > all. > > > --- Mark Jarvis > wrote: > > > > Have you tried Mepis? > > > > -mj- > > > > ec wrote: > > > > > Wife wanted me to wipe out the hd. We copied > > (twice) > > > to cdrom 'her files'. > > > > > > I used three different partition managers and > > cannot > > > get even Knoppix to write to them. > > > > > > Knoppix will 'save config', make swap file, but > > will > > > not write from OO.o or kwrite. > > > > > > This is a Gateway kludge in that apparently there > > is a > > > secondary disk controller similiar to this > > machine. It > > > is built in whereas this one is an addon card for > > a > > > modern hd (not one of the old pio3/4 types). the > > > reason I believe it has a secondary controller is > > > several fold. > > > 1. First drive (primary) is hde1 not hda1 and all > > > 'logicals' are hdeX also. > > > 2. That is the way this ole 350 denotes drives > > also > > > with its secondary controller. (like that promise > > > ultra 66 card that was given away at eastside > > > thursday.) > > > > > > Well, 'the power to be', er, the wife, doesn't > > want an > > > installed system, but rather a 'poorman's install' > > of > > > knoppix. > > > > > > Knoppix boots from cd, but wont copy to hd. > > > > > > Strange that BEFORE I resized and reformatted the > > hd, > > > she had no problems booting to Knoppix3.6 > > 'poorman's > > > install' version. It had a crippled w98 on hde1 > > and a > > > one disk Suse 9 on one partition. > > > > > > I cannot get it to reinstall even that 'poor > > man's' > > > mirrored iso image! It just skips the 'knoppix > > > cheatcode' to do so! > > > > > > Strange! > > > > > > May have to drag it down to ASU Saturday, but > > would > > > love to fix it here. > > > > > > Cyclists should expect and demand safe > > > accommodation on our public roads, > > > just as does every other user. > > > > > > Nothing more is expected. > > > > > > Nothing less is acceptable! > > > > > > Long live Knoppix!! > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! 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