Re: Re: debian-knoppix digest, Vol 1 #934 - 1 msg

OK ... no ... I don't even know what qemu is.

Boot the knoppix disk.
Go to a root shell and type knoppix-installer

The installation will commence. Fully menu driven.

Ian.

Matthew Yates wrote:

>Maybe I didn't understand the question correctly, but
>you can use qemu to boot up the Knoppix image from the
>hard drive.  It is slow, but it works.  Just:
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>qemu -m 256 -cdrom Knoppix.iso
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>-Matt
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>--- Ian Soutar <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>It is easy to get knoppix to run from the hard
>>drive.   Just boot the CD 
>>and type in a root shell "knoppix-installer".  
>>
>>This will come up with a menu.
>>
>>1/ Run the setup.
>>2/ Run the install ...
>>3/ Bingo you have a Debian system on your HD.
>>
>>Customizing it.
>>1/ Run the setup to create a config file.
>>2/ Save configuration to a file in your home
>>directory.
>>3/ Go to the home directory and modify it as
>>desired.   For example you 
>>can change to reiser file system,  no formatting ...
>>different drive 
>>mapping such as a whole partition just for /home.  
>>It is well 
>>documented ... the configuration script is really
>>well commented.
>>4/ Go back to the knoppix-installer program and load
>>your new configuration.
>>5/ Run the install.
>>6/ You will now boot to a customized Debian.
>>
>>Works great either way.    The computer I am typing
>>on is a Debian 
>>custom created from a knoppix disk.   I use the
>>knoppix disk to maintain 
>>it.   If there is a problem I just save my home
>>directory to an external 
>>serial drive.   Then I run the knoppix disk and
>>re-install it.   It only 
>>takes 20 minutes.   Then put my home directory back.
>>  Easy.
>>
>>Ian.
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>>>  1. Any way to boot Knoppix entirely off NTFS
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>>partition? (eco2geek)
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>>>Message: 1
>>>Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 20:15:08 -0400
>>>From: eco2geek <[email protected]>
>>>To: [email protected]
>>>Subject: [debian-knoppix] Any way to boot Knoppix
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>>entirely off NTFS partition?
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>>>With a stanza like the following in GRUB...
>>>
>>># For booting Knoppix off the hard disk
>>>title Boot Knoppix 3.4 from hard disk
>>>kernel (hd0,0)/KNOPPIX/linux26 \
>>>    bootfrom=/dev/hda1/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX.iso \
>>>    lang=us keyboard=us alsa
>>>initrd (hd0,0)/KNOPPIX/minirt26.gz
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>>>...one can boot from KNOPPIX.iso off an NTFS
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>>partition (given that 
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>>>KNOPPIX.iso, linux26, and minirt26.gz are in
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>>C:\KNOPPIX).  However, it 
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>>>still requires the Knoppix CD to be in the drive.
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>>>I've been playing around with various combinations
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>>of the 
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>>>"knoppix_dir=", "knoppix_name", and "fromhd="
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>>cheatcodes (in GRUB's 
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>>>"kernel" statement), trying to get Knoppix to run
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>>*entirely* from the 
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>>>hard drive, without needing to access the CD, with
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>>no success.
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>>>Has anyone made it work?
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>>>- Andrew Heil
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