Not a solution, just a coment... If your already going through all this trouble
why not jump to Knoppix 3.8?
Quoting ec <
eculbert@yahoo.com>:
> 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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> 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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