running from hard disk with cdrom but no floppy .. & oth

[dng88]

Can you copy the knoppix to hd under windows and then boot the cdrom of knoppix but use the hard disk knoppix directory instead but still would not touch the hard disk ... it would be faster at least ... my portable does not have a floppy but have a cdrom ...

Other questions :

I tried to use myconfig and persistant home. There are three problems along this path using the menu/knoppix/configuration route

a) there is an error message saying something about missing command in rsync

b) there is an issue that while the image partition can be mounted, somehow it cannot be rw (but you can use sudo to do create dir and vi etc.)

c) there is a need of more than 80 mb to run kde and I guess the persistant home image has to be more than 80 mb ... is that true?

Thanks for any advice first.

[RockMumbles]

First you need more than 80MB of ram (physical + swap) to run kde, this has nothing to do with persistent home.

What OS and filesystem is on your laptop? If you have xp with ntfs you cannot and should not attempt to write to it, if you write to a win2k or xp ntfs partition while it's not running the OS you will probably end up with a non-functional windows system.

If you have a fat32 filesystem you should be able to write to it no problem. I always use a separate "shared" fat32 partition on my windows machine and do not write the the windows OS partition.

You can copy the entire KNOPPIX directory to your windows partition, but you would have to make a boot cd to boot to the knoppix cloop on your hd. You will not be able to write to the partition that has the knoppix cloop image, knoppix thinks it is running from a cdrom so it will be mounted read-only.

rock

[dng88]

First you need more than 80MB of ram (physical + swap) to run kde, this has nothing to do with persistent home.rock What OS and filesystem is on your laptop? If you have xp with ntfs you cannot and should not attempt to write to it, if you write to a win2k or xp ntfs partition while it's not running the OS you will probably end up with a non-functional windows system.

If you have a fat32 filesystem you should be able to write to it no problem. I always use a separate "shared" fat32 partition on my windows machine and do not write the the windows OS partition.

I had 256mb on my portable and it runs fine if i do not try to do the persistant home and my config. Something is wrong. Further, I tried to I try to use the latest version of 3.2 (instead of a tailor-made version under the tw debian.linux.org.tw), it does not run at all.


The shared partition approach is good suggestion. I tried to do that later but using windows fat32 under linux is not perfect as it would not have those necessary file secrutiy and a lot of program requires those bit to work.

Hence, came back to the persist home approach and have to struggle.

You can copy the entire KNOPPIX directory to your windows partition, but you would have to make a boot cd to boot to the knoppix cloop on your hd. You will not be able to write to the partition that has the knoppix cloop image, knoppix thinks it is running from a cdrom so it will be mounted read-only.

That is the more urgent issue. Does it have any way to make that boot cdrom as what I have is a procedure to make floppy. Can you make a bootable cdrom to boot linux but use the partition in windows i.e. /dev/hda1 for the /knoppix. Any hint would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[dng88]

THe problem with the 03-3-30 en is that it hang upon the scsi prob with some aic....o files. The older version (under the tw version) seems fine.

[rickenbacherus]

boot: knoppix noscsi