How to manually install to hdd?

Hi group,

I am thinking of installing knoppix 3.2 to hard disk.
My understanding, though, is that the knx-hdinstall
script won't allow fine control of the partitioning.
I'd like to have separate root, boot, usr and var partitions.
Has someone amended said script, or is there a faq
somewhere on how to do this "by hand" with knoppix.
I am familiar with linux, and comfortable with the
command line, fdisk, mkfs et al.

Thanks in advance.

This should be on the CD if not it is on Knopper.net knoppix FAQ

Quote:

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Q: Can one also install the distribution from the CD onto a hard drive?

A: In principal, yes (after all, the "master" system also runs on a hard
drive before it is burned to CD). However there is currently no
installation GUI for this, so installation to a hard drive should probably
only be attempted by more knowledgeable Linux users. Assuming the KNOPPIX
system has already booted, installation approximately follows this
procedure:
1.) initialize a free partition with the ext2 file system and mount it on
/mnt/knoppix, for example.
2.) cp -a /KNOPPIX/* /mnt/knoppix/
3.) set up /mnt/knoppix/etc/fstab and /mnt/knoppix/etc/lilo.conf for the
new system (Caution: symlinks in /boot initially point to the Ram
disk!), run lilo.
4.) mkdir /mnt/knoppix/home/knoppix && \
chown knoppix.knoppix /mnt/knoppix/home/knoppix
5.) Reboot, try the system out, fix any broken settings.
(No guarantees.)

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rock

The way I do it is very easy. Use knx-hdinstall. Then copy what you want to the other partitions. All you have to do then is a quick edit to the text file /etc/fstab. For example add a line like:

/dev/hda5 /home defaults 0 0

After rebooting this will make partition 5 be the /home directory. By the way I am not sure that it is exactly right because I am not on a Linux box right now; but it is really easy to figure out once you take a look at fstab.

I set up my partitions beforehand and then used knx-install without a hitch.

Quote:

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Q: Can one also install the distribution from the CD onto a hard drive?

A: In principal, yes (after all, the "master" system also runs on a hard
drive before it is burned to CD). However there is currently no
installation GUI for this, so installation to a hard drive should probably
only be attempted by more knowledgeable Linux users. Assuming the KNOPPIX
system has already booted, installation approximately follows this
procedure:

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Is that from an old FAQ, because when I ran knx-install it had a (curses) GUI, and I as a Linux n00b found it very easy to install, simpler that the red-hat installer, which i failed to finish

I am a complete neophyte. But the CTL-ALT-F1 followed by knx-hdinstall worked like a charm for me.

Actually it gives me more than I can handle at thois point; how can I install it EXACTLY like the CD, with the addition of ROOT?