chipslayer
12-23-2006, 02:56 PM
Greetings,
I have a hard drive I took out of an old notebook and put into an external USB enclosure. I split it into 2 partitions and knoppix sees them as sda1 and sda2. Here's what I want to do.
1) copy Knoppix 5.0 dvd to partition 1
2) use a Knoppix CD to boot a computer but have it use the usb drive partition 1 as the source for Knoppix
3) install f-prot on sda2 to use to scan infected Windows machines
4) copy files from the windows machines to sda2 to save valuable/unreplaceable data.
Here's what I've accomplished:
1) Using fdisk I managed to make 2 partitions and formated them as ext3 and fat32.
2) Using tohd cheat code I managed to copy Knoppix 5.0 DVD to sda1 (at least it shows a folder saying Knoppix that has an image and a bunch of files on it!)
Here's my stumbling blocks:
1) I can't figure out how to get a bootable DVD or CD to use the sda1 copy rather than the DVD which is very slow. I want to use a CD to point to sda1 as many machines I work on can't boot from a USB device, don't have DVD drives but I want the capability of the DVD. Here's what I've tried at boot up:
a) knoppix lang=en keyboard=us fromhd=/media/sda1 --result--boots from DVD
b) knoppix lang=en keyboard=us fromhd=/mnt/sda1 /dev/sda1 -- result -- boots from DVD
Obviously, I don't know what I'm doing. I've been using Knoppix Hacks, Hacking Knoppix books and doing some reading on forums and googling. Thanks for any suggestions.
Tom
I have a hard drive I took out of an old notebook and put into an external USB enclosure. I split it into 2 partitions and knoppix sees them as sda1 and sda2. Here's what I want to do.
1) copy Knoppix 5.0 dvd to partition 1
2) use a Knoppix CD to boot a computer but have it use the usb drive partition 1 as the source for Knoppix
3) install f-prot on sda2 to use to scan infected Windows machines
4) copy files from the windows machines to sda2 to save valuable/unreplaceable data.
Here's what I've accomplished:
1) Using fdisk I managed to make 2 partitions and formated them as ext3 and fat32.
2) Using tohd cheat code I managed to copy Knoppix 5.0 DVD to sda1 (at least it shows a folder saying Knoppix that has an image and a bunch of files on it!)
Here's my stumbling blocks:
1) I can't figure out how to get a bootable DVD or CD to use the sda1 copy rather than the DVD which is very slow. I want to use a CD to point to sda1 as many machines I work on can't boot from a USB device, don't have DVD drives but I want the capability of the DVD. Here's what I've tried at boot up:
a) knoppix lang=en keyboard=us fromhd=/media/sda1 --result--boots from DVD
b) knoppix lang=en keyboard=us fromhd=/mnt/sda1 /dev/sda1 -- result -- boots from DVD
Obviously, I don't know what I'm doing. I've been using Knoppix Hacks, Hacking Knoppix books and doing some reading on forums and googling. Thanks for any suggestions.
Tom