msarullo
05-31-2003, 02:41 AM
Hey, just did a hard drive install of Knoppix on my Win XP machine and it runs much faster than the CD based version. Has some nice additional features too and is a must for any Knoppix user. I'm a Linuxnewbie, but here's what I did:
-Backed up my data
-I had a second hard drive so I used that one in case something went wrong. I used Partition Magic 7.0 to partition my existing fat32 drive into a Linux Ext2 partition (5 Gigs) and a Linux Swap partition (1 Gig).
-Booted knoppix from the hard drive and opened a terminal window
-Typed 'sudo su' to give root access
-Typed 'knx-hdinstall' to start the Knoppix installation program
-The installation will walk you through a bunch of choices. The most important one is to make sure you install Knoppix to the correct partitions (the ones you just created)
-At the end of the install it will ask you to either write a boot manager to the master boot record (typically C) or create a boot floppy. Either one should work fine. In case you ever have problems with the boot manager, you can always restore your master boot record by booting to DOS with a floppy and typing 'fdisk /mbr' at the prompt
-Reboot and enjoy your new (and better) OS :D
-As a newbie, what are some of the things I can do with Linux? Can anyone direct me on how to install packages or say, update the kernel?
-Backed up my data
-I had a second hard drive so I used that one in case something went wrong. I used Partition Magic 7.0 to partition my existing fat32 drive into a Linux Ext2 partition (5 Gigs) and a Linux Swap partition (1 Gig).
-Booted knoppix from the hard drive and opened a terminal window
-Typed 'sudo su' to give root access
-Typed 'knx-hdinstall' to start the Knoppix installation program
-The installation will walk you through a bunch of choices. The most important one is to make sure you install Knoppix to the correct partitions (the ones you just created)
-At the end of the install it will ask you to either write a boot manager to the master boot record (typically C) or create a boot floppy. Either one should work fine. In case you ever have problems with the boot manager, you can always restore your master boot record by booting to DOS with a floppy and typing 'fdisk /mbr' at the prompt
-Reboot and enjoy your new (and better) OS :D
-As a newbie, what are some of the things I can do with Linux? Can anyone direct me on how to install packages or say, update the kernel?