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 <
mark.jarvis@pvmail.maricopa.edu>
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!!
> >
> >
> >
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