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On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 03:13 PM, al johnson wrote:
Today, I got curious and after visiting several websites about Libranet and
Knoppix, I learned a lot of new stuff. the following item from the main
Knoppix site purports to give simple instructions for installing Knoppix on
your hard drive!! I've copied the entire set of instructions for those who
also might be interested in this process:
I just did this on my desktop at work today, having hit an "up2date moment" that caught me in the mood for switching distros.
If you use the English CD, you can cut out a large amount of these instructions, like steps 7 through 14.
Installation Procedure To get Knoppix installed onto your hard drive:
1. Boot the Knoppix CD.
2. When the boot prompt comes up, choose your language.
Most of us speak English, so we'll type:
boot: knoppix lang=en then press ENTER (you don't type the 'boot:'
part, of course)
3. Wait till the system is fully launched, including the KDE desktop
4. Press CTRL-ALT-F1, to get a root console. You should see a shell prompt
5. Type: knx-hdinstall
6. Follow the guided installation menus. This will include:
* Creating a Linux partition (at least 2.5GB
* Creating a Linux Swap partition (at least 256MB)
* 'Mounting' the Linux partition as root
* Initialising the swap partition
* Copying all the required files (automatically)
* Setting up networking
* Setting passwords
* Setting up the bootloader (Note: take care with this stage - it
could render your system incapable of booting into Windows. If you really
need Windows, then it might be a good idea to set up GRUB Bootloader with a
'chainloader' entry, so that you can dual boot. Working this out is an
exercise left to the reader - there are too many possible scenarios for me to
cover in this short guide. Also see man grub and the files in
/usr/share/doc/grub)
* Rebooting (without the CD)
[snip]
15. (Optional) - type apt-get update (followed by ENTER). This will update
your list of available packages, and takes about 5-10 minutes.
16. Hey, presto, you've got a fully installed GNU/Linux desktop
I'm going through the gyrations of getting LDAP authentication working here but so far it looks good. I want to spend more time with Debian because I'm getting ready to deploy a lot of embedded systems that I won't have ready physical access to, and I want something very stable that is easy to upgrade. I'll probably end up using the Pebble Linux distro (another Debian flavor) because it is made to run on flash disk already and it is quite small. I will probably go through some effort to make it smaller still, and focus a bit more on IPv6 services, routing protocols and SNMP. I don't really need these things to run apache or squid or named or anything like that.
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Chris Hedemark
UNIX / Linux / BSD / Mac OS X / Windows consulting available. No job too small!
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