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please reply fast! a noobish question!
hello!
i just installed knoppix using knx-hdinstall and went trough the install (i didn't create a boot floppy and i chose no when it asked about this Lilo or whatever) i created 2 partitions 1 (10gigs) of rlinux and the other one (3gigs) for the sap file, i have WinXP on my main partition, after i installed knoppix how do i use it? how o i boot into it?!
total noob!
i know there are tons of threads about it but i'm so dumb i can't understand a thing (well not that dumb i'm just new to linux), so can anyone tell me how to do it so when i'll restart the computer will prompt me if i want to use knoppix or XP! help me please!
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Re: please reply fast! a noobish question!
Originally Posted by
mark1221
hello!
i just installed knoppix using knx-hdinstall and went trough the install (i didn't create a boot floppy and i chose no when it asked about this Lilo or whatever)
No boot floppy and you didn't install a boot loader either? Well that does make it difficult to boot Linux now doesn't it? BTW- there is a new improved installer called knoppix-installer.
I would suggest removing XP (oh sorry- natural reaction) you can leave XP on there. What you need to do is install LiLo to the MBR and you will have a dual-boot configuration. (you could edit ntldr for dual boot but I don't know how). You easily can reinstall LiLo like so:
1) Boot Knoppix cd
2) Mount the /root partition for example:
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2
*NOTE* The /root partition is the one yuou installed Knoppix to.
3)chroot to the partition, chroot /mnt/hda2
4) Edit /etc/lilo.conf with your favorite editor
5) /sbin/lilo -v
Of course you may need some help editing /etc/lilo.conf. Post it here please and also tell us which partition you installed Knoppix to.
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I would suggest removing XP
No, I think that's the problem right there....he he he
Just kidding.
Sorry, couldn't help it!
Regards,
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Re: please reply fast! a noobish question!
--D00d, you don't need 3gigs for swap - maybe at most 512MB unless you're doing some really massive stuff.
Originally Posted by
mark1221
hello!
i just installed knoppix using knx-hdinstall and went trough the install (i didn't create a boot floppy and i chose no when it asked about this Lilo or whatever) i created 2 partitions 1 (10gigs) of rlinux and the other one (3gigs) for the sap file, i have WinXP on my main partition, after i installed knoppix how do i use it? how o i boot into it?!
total noob!
i know there are tons of threads about it but i'm so dumb i can't understand a thing (well not that dumb i'm just new to linux), so can anyone tell me how to do it so when i'll restart the computer will prompt me if i want to use knoppix or XP! help me please!
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why don't you just boot the Knoppix cd again and reset you fstabs to what it should be then mount -a
now just create a boot disk and restart the machine with it
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