On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 07:05:29PM -0400, Jaimie Livingston wrote: > I would be interested in that write up. I'm considering Knoppix on a scratch built > desktop > that I can't seem to get Fedora, Mandrake, or SuSE to install on. All three tend to > lock > the system hard during the hardware detection portion of the install, but Knoppix > boots, > loads, and runs beautifully. Go figure.
Odd that Fedora locks. Knoppix hardware detection is based on kudzu. (WARNING: familiarity with the Debian package system is required for what follows) I checked my notes and they are not accurate. I started cleaning up the notes this AM but quickly realized that without actually running the install again, my notes would be useless. Besides, most of my notes were about what to do _after_ XP and LInux were dual booting. Now I have another project started (like I needed that :-) The overall method was something like this: 1. boot Knoppix and use qparted to partition the disk; I made 3 parts; one for each of: XP 20G, Knoppix 20G, unused 20G format the parts (IIRC) Boot Knoppix 3.3 1. insert CD 2. start or restart 3. Watch bottom of boot screen for message: Press [F2] for SETUP, Press [F12] for boot device selection menu; press F12 as soon as you see this message; it may take you several iterations of steps 2 and 3 4. You should get the gray and blue Boot Menu; arrow down to "CD-ROM/DVD Drive"; press Enter 5. KDE menu->KNOPPIX->Root Shell 6. in Root shell enter: qtparted 7. widen the qtparted dialog box qtparted (WARNING: numbers below are not sync'd to what I said above.) 1. click on /dev/hda1 in the Device box in the lefthand side of the GUI dialog box 2. the system chews on the disk and then the partition info for this device is displayed in the righthand side of the GUI dialog box. 3. select partition 01 (the only one) 4. select "Resize" under the "Operations" menu 5. Enter 5726 MB in the New Size field of the Resize Partition dialog; enter tab; Free space after is now 51505.53 MB; Free space before is 0 MB 6. Click OK 7.Answer YES to are you sure? 8. Progres warning: The partition is fragmented. Try to defragment it, or resize it to 12315MB; press OK 9. do steps 3-4; Enter New Size of 12315 MB; Free space before is 0 MB and Free space after is 44916.53 MB; press OK; press OK to are you sure 10. Note the HD LED on steadily; press OK when progress indicator reaches 100% 11. Note the righthand side of the qtparted dialog box now indicates two partitions 2. Toshiba comes with a Ghostview OS disk for XP; it loads into whatever partition you choose; reload XP; use system management tools to verify partition scheme setup in 1. 3. boot Knoppix; use this method to load to HDD: http://www.distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-knoppix 4. test LILO; hit "enter" to get menu 5. start the clean-up process; convert Knoppix to Debian Sid (google for more info; I didn't do it but have since learned that this is the Right Thing to do); I had a problem with Knoppix loading a braille tty package; it caused ominous and continuous messages after bootup; the solution was to remove the braille tty package. This might be useful; don't know if it's the best method: Set time and timezone 1. as root user 2. ntpdate clock1.unc.edu 3. hwclock --systohc 4. tzselect (answer questions appropriately) 5. as user, edit .profile in user accounts and root accounts 6. add this line: TZ='America/New_York'; export TZ 7. logout/login 8. use date command to verify results Good luck. -- Mike Moving forward in pushing back the envelope of the corporate paradigm. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
