Haven't found 3.8 on an ftp site. I haven't figured
out bittorrent yet! Low end 'it' person here..er, dah,
dah, dit type almost.
You know, the one's you hackers need to dumb down
linux for!! Hehehe.
---
Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu wrote:
> 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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