Installing to harddrive

**osiris_22** · 05-16-2004, 02:32 AM

Yes ive been tyring to figure out how to install to hard drive.. ive tried the ctl+alt+f2 and the knx-hdinstall.. and well it says bad command line or some crap.. my friend told me there is a way to install it inside of knoppix but i cant find it.. any help would work thanks

Osiris

**Cardador** · 05-16-2004, 03:15 AM

osiris:

Boot from your Knoppix CD, open a console (theres an icon for it) and type:
su
knoppix-installer

Then you get a graphical installer, that should be fairly straight forward as long as you know how to partition your hd.

Bye!

**gradnite** · 05-16-2004, 06:42 AM

Originally Posted by Cardador

osiris:

Boot from your Knoppix CD, open a console (theres an icon for it) and type:
su
knoppix-installer

Then you get a graphical installer, that should be fairly straight forward as long as you know how to partition your hd.

Bye!

My question is: it asks if i want to partition my hard drive. Is it going to destroy everything else on it? I want a dual-boot with XP.

**fingers99** · 05-16-2004, 06:52 AM

My question is: it asks if i want to partition my hard drive. Is it going to destroy everything else on it? I want a dual-boot with XP.

If your HD is ntfs, use the Windows tools to create a seperate fat32 partition (this is where you'll install knoppix). Then run the knoppix installer. Another trick is to pick up a copy of Mandrake and use that to resize the ntfs, then abort the install after the disk has been reformatted and install Knoppix.

**gradnite** · 05-16-2004, 08:07 AM

Originally Posted by fingers99

My question is: it asks if i want to partition my hard drive. Is it going to destroy everything else on it? I want a dual-boot with XP.

If your HD is ntfs, use the Windows tools to create a seperate fat32 partition (this is where you'll install knoppix). Then run the knoppix installer. Another trick is to pick up a copy of Mandrake and use that to resize the ntfs, then abort the install after the disk has been reformatted and install Knoppix.

Hi. Yes, the HD is NTFS. Is there anything free out there that I could use to create that fat32 partition? I don't have a copy of Mandrake, but that does sound like a good option.