Installing to Hard Drive From Command Line

[jjohnson0000]

Currently I have a machine with 64 mb of ram on it. Upon booting I am informed that there is not enough ram to run KDE, so I am stuck with command line for now.

My question is, I can work out getting KDE to start once it gets installed on the hard drive because I'll be able to work out using some swap memory for it (or putting more ram in), but my big problem currently is installing to hard drive from the command line (or any other way that this can be done)

IF anyone has any tips or can point me to a link with help on that it would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[UnderScore]

Skip Knoppix & the LiveCDs and go directly to Debian. Debian developers have shipped Debian 3.1 (sarge) Mon June 6.
Debian stable - http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso 108M
The minimal install is about 200-300MB and includes only the basic shell, etc, filesystem programs, apt and dpkg programs so that you can get updates and install more packages.

I hope this helps.
James

[Harry Kuhman]

Absolutely go with Jame's suggestion. Knoppix was never really intended for HD install anyway and causes lots of problems for those who insist on doing it. If you're limited to the command line than there absolutely no incentive to getting all of the Knoppix stuff, which is mainly stuff you need the GUI for. Get a nice clean stable Debian install and add what you need as you need it. You'll learn a lot more about Linux and have a much more stable system.

[tdjokic]

A bit offtopic (mail from friend):

> Note: 3.1_r0 CD image problem
> A bug has been discovered in the 3.1_r0 CD/DVD images: new installs
from these images will have a commented-out entry
> in /etc/apt/sources.list for
> "http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates" rather than an active
entry for "http://security.debian.org/
> stable/updates", and thus will not get security updates by
> default. This was due to incorrect Release files on the images.
>
> If you have already installed a system using a 3.1r0 CD/DVD image,
you do not need to reinstall. Instead, simply edit
> /etc/apt/sources.list, look for any lines
> mentioning security.debian.org, change "testing" to "stable", and
remove "# " from the start of the line.
>
> If you installed other than from a CD or DVD (for example, netboot,
or booting from floppy and installing the base
> system from the network), you are not
> affected by this bug.
>
> These new 3.1_r0a images correct this flaw. We apologise for the
inconvenience.

[UnderScore]

Yeah I noticed the Debian error & that is why I linked it to the 3.1r0a.