Install on second harddrive

[manatarms1775]

I have two harddrives - windows98 on one and a second drive that is totally blank. I would like to install Knoppix on the second drive as a hddinstall and dual boot. Other linux versions seem to be able to do this from the installer but I have not been able to find a way to do this with knoppix. If it is possible - Would anyone show me the way - in easy to follow steps? Thank you.

[fingers99]

TRy doing

cfdisk /dev/(whatever the drive is)

from the live CD.

Ideally, you want three primary partitions:

/ no more than 3Gig
swap no more than 1/2 gig
/home the rest

/ and /home should be ext3 or reiser. Swap must be linux swap. Make / booteable.

Then just run the installer.

[manatarms1775]

I was unable to enter values to change the size of the partition. I put the cursor on units - hit enter and it just moved to the bootable menu choice - put it on units and pressed a number key, same thing - entered u on the keyboard - the units display cycled through the different modes - cyl, etc, but no value change. ???

[fingers99]

Like I say, use cfdisk rather than QTParted.

Let me quote the magnificent words of rickenbacherus:

(from the HOWTO at the top of this forum)


Use the arrow keys to navigate through cfdisk. The options at the bottom are fairly self-explainatory but I'll give a brief description of each one:

[Bootable]- marks a partition as 'bootable'. Note that only the first partition needs to be labeled as bootable IF YOUR BIOS CANNOT BOOT FROM BEYOND THE 1024 CYLINDER LIMIT OR YOU ARE USING NTLDR.
[Delete]- just as it implies it will delete- without question any partition you choose.
[Help]- take a guess.
[Maximize]- An option to maximize the usage of the partition. You will likely never need to use this option.
[Print]Not literally "send to printer" but print to file OR- for those of you that are curious print to screen-you can even choose the format.
[Quit]Just as it implies.
[Type]With this option you can MARK any partition as a certain format type. THIS DOES NOT FORMAT THE PARTITION!! That is a seperate process to be completed later AFTER writing your partition table AND confirming the re-read of your partition table which may involve a reboot.
[Units]Changes the format which your partitions are displayed. Your choices are Megabytes, Sectors or Cylinders. Stick with Megabytes unless you know what you are doing. It's much simpler.

*NOTE* A Megabyte is 1024 Kilobytes. Therefor, in the above example /dev/hda10 is 3000 Mb OR 3Gigabytes.
[Write]- Commits your new partition table to the hard drive.

*REMEMBER* If you do not [Write] the partition table to disc nothing will be changed. When you do invoke the [Write] option cfdisk will tell you if it wrote successfully or not and if it succeeded in re-reading the partition table AFTER writing. If it fails to re-read the table you will need to reboot for the changes to take effect. If it successfully re-reads the partition table you should not need to reboot but if it makes you feel better by all means go ahead.

So what are you waiting for? Go ahead, start cfdisk, create and destroy partitions at will- JUST DON'T WRITE ANYTHING! and you'll be fine-just [Quit] cfdisk. Learn your way around the program, what it can and cannot do and how it does it. When you're happy with your partitions you've created then go a head and write the partition table to disc.