linuxprince
11-22-2003, 02:51 AM
:D finally did it!
so thought might post it for some newbie like me!
well it all started with some one posting a link in fatwallet...downloaded the iso and booted the laptop from CD...amazingly everything worked(sound,even my netgear MA401 wireless card.my prev exp with mandrake a few days ago was worse with no sound and no network)
so went ahead and tried to install knoppix on HD as booting from CD is slow and i want to enjoy good things without troubling myself much...
ok heres the procedure i went thru(read thru all at once. u will know where i made mistakes and learnt them..)
used partition magic in windows to create a linux partition for 5 GB and swap of 256 MB and fat partition of 1 GB( heard that linux recognizes fat)....then
restarted the system with cdrom as first boot and knoppix CD in
1) booted as usual
2) launched a shell and logged in as root and typed knx-hdinstall
3) kind of walkthru...took around 20 mintues to copy the files
4)asked me if i wanted to use LILO...said yes( :( my blunder!)
5) asked me whether i wanted to choose mailserver,sambha server....etc..i chose no for everything except for KDE login
thought i am done and restarted the Laptop
BLANK SCREEN :shock: no windows no linux
tried to get to do fix mbr with windows XP CD from dell...went into recovery console and stupid thing says my password is incorrect though i type it correctly...
read thru some posts here in the forum by some nice guys and learnt that winxp has a flaw which allows u to get into recovery console when i boot with win2k CD...borrowed one from a friend and got into the recovery console and executed the "fixmbr" command
and XP started to boot perfectly but still no sign of knoppix!
googled and got this software from http://www.osloader.com/ ( a boot manager)...installed it from windows and rebooted....
i got a boot option to boot into windows or linux....tried to get into linux...again BLANK SCREEN :shock:
ok i thought some LILO must have screwed it up...and went with the install of knoppix again..the only differnece being i said no when during the end of the install knoppix asked whether i want to use LILO....
and there u go folks....when i rebooted i got the dual option as before but this time
KNOPPIX fired beautifully and here i am posting this post using MOZILLA from Knoppix...my sound card works,wireless(obviously! :D )
have to figure out a way to access my FAT partition... :mrgreen:
so thought might post it for some newbie like me!
well it all started with some one posting a link in fatwallet...downloaded the iso and booted the laptop from CD...amazingly everything worked(sound,even my netgear MA401 wireless card.my prev exp with mandrake a few days ago was worse with no sound and no network)
so went ahead and tried to install knoppix on HD as booting from CD is slow and i want to enjoy good things without troubling myself much...
ok heres the procedure i went thru(read thru all at once. u will know where i made mistakes and learnt them..)
used partition magic in windows to create a linux partition for 5 GB and swap of 256 MB and fat partition of 1 GB( heard that linux recognizes fat)....then
restarted the system with cdrom as first boot and knoppix CD in
1) booted as usual
2) launched a shell and logged in as root and typed knx-hdinstall
3) kind of walkthru...took around 20 mintues to copy the files
4)asked me if i wanted to use LILO...said yes( :( my blunder!)
5) asked me whether i wanted to choose mailserver,sambha server....etc..i chose no for everything except for KDE login
thought i am done and restarted the Laptop
BLANK SCREEN :shock: no windows no linux
tried to get to do fix mbr with windows XP CD from dell...went into recovery console and stupid thing says my password is incorrect though i type it correctly...
read thru some posts here in the forum by some nice guys and learnt that winxp has a flaw which allows u to get into recovery console when i boot with win2k CD...borrowed one from a friend and got into the recovery console and executed the "fixmbr" command
and XP started to boot perfectly but still no sign of knoppix!
googled and got this software from http://www.osloader.com/ ( a boot manager)...installed it from windows and rebooted....
i got a boot option to boot into windows or linux....tried to get into linux...again BLANK SCREEN :shock:
ok i thought some LILO must have screwed it up...and went with the install of knoppix again..the only differnece being i said no when during the end of the install knoppix asked whether i want to use LILO....
and there u go folks....when i rebooted i got the dual option as before but this time
KNOPPIX fired beautifully and here i am posting this post using MOZILLA from Knoppix...my sound card works,wireless(obviously! :D )
have to figure out a way to access my FAT partition... :mrgreen: