keninkaty
09-14-2005, 11:35 PM
I have a 20gig hard drive that uses 14 gig for Windows and the remaining for Linux. The linux portion has 2 partitions hda5 and hda6. They are formatted as ext3 (I believe, anyway for Linux). I have loaded and unloaded several different flavors of Linux on these partitions and, though I am not a linux guru, have come to various conclusions regading these different flavors. Then I bought a cd of Knoppix 3.3 and was surprised at how simple the installation was. Everything worked correctly, even the dialup modem went off at the first try. I set my bios to boot from cd first and then second, the hard drive. This works just fine. If I want Linux I insert the Knoppix disk and it boots, and if I want windows I do not put the Knoppix cd in and it boots from the hard drive and thence to Windows. After a session of Knoppix I would save the configuration, and next time at the boot prompt I would type ' myconfig=/mnt/hda6', and it would come up with all the info from the previous session. So everything was great.
Then I decided to give Ubuntu a go (I bought the cd) it did not go for me. Then I tried Peanut ( also bought the cd) aand it was the pits. Next I bought Knoppix 3.9 and that, after configuring the modem and getting it working, it would dial up ok but after disconnecting from the ISP and the trying to dial up again it could not find the modem and would freeze the whole thing up.
So as Knoppix 3.3 had been so good I went back to that. But now I wanted a fresh start so at the boot prompt I just hit 'enter'
Off it went but when it got to the desktop, it had the one that I had changed it to and the whole thing locked up. I reformatted the Liux partitions and tried all sorts of stuff but I cannot get the thing to start with the original desktop. It is getting information from somewhere that I do not want it to have. And why? I do not ask it to look for old configs.
Keninkaty
Then I decided to give Ubuntu a go (I bought the cd) it did not go for me. Then I tried Peanut ( also bought the cd) aand it was the pits. Next I bought Knoppix 3.9 and that, after configuring the modem and getting it working, it would dial up ok but after disconnecting from the ISP and the trying to dial up again it could not find the modem and would freeze the whole thing up.
So as Knoppix 3.3 had been so good I went back to that. But now I wanted a fresh start so at the boot prompt I just hit 'enter'
Off it went but when it got to the desktop, it had the one that I had changed it to and the whole thing locked up. I reformatted the Liux partitions and tried all sorts of stuff but I cannot get the thing to start with the original desktop. It is getting information from somewhere that I do not want it to have. And why? I do not ask it to look for old configs.
Keninkaty