Re: Help with reformatted hd

We should have a copy or two of 3.8 at the Installfest... But then again we
will have a quite a few 3.7's as well :)

And only two of the north american sites have 3.8 but almost all the british
sites do (go figure)

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, ec wrote:

> 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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> just as does every other user.
>
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>
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