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Install knoppix on external hard drive
I need to install knoppix or something similar to it onto my external hard drive. The purpose of this is to allow me to take the hard drive to several computers ( all of which have the boot from USB option) and bott into linux on them.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
I have data on it already, and from what I saw of knx-hdinstall, it wants to rewrite the whole disk.
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Not sure how it is going to boot if on an external HD, the system bios will have to be able to boot the external HD or else you may have to boot from a configuration floppy. Knx-hdinstall is obsolete since knoppix version 3.4, use 'knoppix-installer' instead. You should be given an option to parition the HD from the installer or else partition it before installing running from CD with QTparted
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I suppose the real question is,
Does the knoppix HD instyall support all the hardware that the liveCD supports?
Assuming that I get it installed onto my external hard drive on say, a dell, and set it up so that it boots properly from the externaml hard drive ( I have done this much with a suse partition ) will I then be able to take it to say, my viao laptop and boot from there without ketting a kernel panic ( this is what I get with the suse install) much the same as the livecd can go from computer to computer.
Or to rephrase, does the hard drive installed version of knoppix do all the hardware checking theat the cd version does?[/list]
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Originally Posted by
mdc5533
....Or to rephrase, does the hard drive installed version of knoppix do all the hardware checking theat the cd version does?[/list]
Yes, if you do a 'knoppix-style' HD install.
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you could do it from cheatcodes check the faq.
Copy to the harddrive and use the cd to boot from.
freeing the cd for other uses.
Also possibly adding cheatcodes at boot time to help boot new host computer.
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ehem,
on the external harddrive with the focus to boot on DIFFERENT hardware I suggest to make a boot disk and copy the complete cd 1:1 to the harddrive.
This trick was posted somewhere here too.
But what you get than is not a harddisk installation but the feature to scan for all the hardware for the different PCs..
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