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    poor mans install won't boot (fromhd broken?)

    Hello all,

    I've been messing around with knoppix for a while now, where I use it on this little computer I irc from.. I used knoppix because it was complete, handy and this machine didn't have an HD.

    Well, I have a small HD for this computer now, but its not really big enough to put much on -- certainly not as much as knoppix has! (1.2 gig). So I figure the poor mans install is perfect -- I get better speed, and keep knoppix's great selection of stuff.

    tohd worked and booted fine... it ran off the HD without a hitch... but now I won't boot from it using fromhd! I have a persistant home directory as an image (home=/dev/hda1), configuration stuff (myconf=/dev/hda1) .. but fromhd=/dev/hda1 doesn't find the cd. I went and pointed it to the actual iso (?) with "fromhd=/dev/hda1/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX" or "fromhd=/dev/hda1/KNOPPIX" it all says the same error message:

    Code:
    Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
    Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
    Press reset button to quit.
    They aren't kidding about very limited, incidently, its 100% useless. It doesn't even have ls.

    Anyway, anyone know why knoppix can't find the image it made?

    This is all with 3.4, 2004-05-17

    --SD

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    Poor Mans Install Won't Boot

    You don't say what file system you are using.

    I had exactly this problem from a Windows NT machine using NTFS. Eventually someone posted a message which gave me the answer.

    You still need the CD to access the image. However, the boot carries on from hard drive when you start with Kernel 2.6 and use the bootfrom option:

    knoppix26 bootfrom=/dev/hd??

    Apparently the same poster said that to use Kernel 2.4 one needed to put the iso file on the hard drive. Not having the iso file I cannot verify that.

    Hope that helps. It worked for me.

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    Ha! Using Knoppix26 worked like a charm, the whole thing works great. Only... my mouse wheel doesn't work anymore. Huh, thats a strange one. I actually have had this problem before, I fixed it by change from a ps2 interface to a usb one... however, this just an actual PS2 mouse, I don't have any more usb mice.

    Its identified as a "Generic PS/2 Wheel Mouse at /dev/psaux" which is correct. Just.. no mouse wheel.

    Wierd.

    Well, thanks for the help

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    I've got the same problem, how to solve?

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    Have you tried the wheelmouse cheatcode?

    i.e. bootup with

    knoppix26 bootfrom=/dev/hda?? wheelmouse

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