Booting Knoppix from HDD

[James]

Yes I used partition magic, a very handy application!

I have now redownloaded the iso and it turns out there was a problem
with my original download. I now however have knoppix working from the CD with the floppy boot image on the HDD!

Thanks again.

James

[z123]

on the topic of hot swappable drives and whatnot I have a dell latitude, I have a number of drives that i would like to use on it.

Zip 250
CD-ROM
Floppy

Allready loaded it to the HD, that worked great. Can't praise enough the:

knx-hdinstall

command. That was so simple. And once I figured out that the swap file was number 82 it made life even easier. The only problem is when I'm on the desktop of knoppix I can't seem to hotswap the drives to access the floppy or the zip or the cd-rom. I have to reboot everytime to access the floppy or cd-rom, I have never gotten the zip to work on knoppix 3.2 yet.

Ideas on how to accomplish this would be great.

[Dave_Bechtel]

--I have a Latitude also. The problem with hot-swapping the floppy and CD is (I think) the kernel doesn't get notified. I leave the CD in, and have the parallel-port adapter for the floppy. Here is a google link, you can probably find it for less:

http://www.laptopsetc.com/index.asp?...PROD&ProdID=61
http://www.jungleblurbs.com/dell/Flo...15003762.shtml

--If you boot with the Zip 250 plugged in, it should be /dev/sda4. You can confirm this with - as root - ' fdisk -l /dev/sd? '

on the topic of hot swappable drives and whatnot I have a dell latitude, I have a number of drives that i would like to use on it.

Zip 250
CD-ROM
Floppy

Allready loaded it to the HD, that worked great. Can't praise enough the:

knx-hdinstall

command. That was so simple. And once I figured out that the swap file was number 82 it made life even easier. The only problem is when I'm on the desktop of knoppix I can't seem to hotswap the drives to access the floppy or the zip or the cd-rom. I have to reboot everytime to access the floppy or cd-rom, I have never gotten the zip to work on knoppix 3.2 yet.

Ideas on how to accomplish this would be great.

[z123]

I am running knoppix off of the Hard drive, just can't figure out how to mount this zip drive. I've tried /dev/sda when i create a new hd on the desktop also tried /dev/sda4 not sure what i am doing wrong with it. I have a disk in the drive when the laptop boots. If I shutdown, I can put the floppy in and use that, and then If I shutdown again I can run the cdrom. No big deal, just wanted to create a desktop icon for zip...doesn't seem to want to recognize it.

[Dave_Bechtel]

--What kind of interface does the Zip have?

o For my old parallel port I have to ' modprobe ppa '
o For the newer parallel ones it's ' modprobe imm '.
o For USB zip drives it's ' modprobe usb-storage '. o For internal IDE drives it's ' modprobe ide-floppy '.

--What does ' fdisk -l /dev/sd? ' return?

I am running knoppix off of the Hard drive, just can't figure out how to mount this zip drive. I've tried /dev/sda when i create a new hd on the desktop also tried /dev/sda4 not sure what i am doing wrong with it. I have a disk in the drive when the laptop boots. If I shutdown, I can put the floppy in and use that, and then If I shutdown again I can run the cdrom. No big deal, just wanted to create a desktop icon for zip...doesn't seem to want to recognize it.

[Jared]

I have a problem similar to James's in not being able to boot in cd rom. i have a post in this forum above called trouble booting knoppix cd. If anyone can give me help i would appreciate it. Thanks

[z123]

figured out my problems with the zip, i now can hit fn suspend on the laptop and hotswap out the floppy and the zip, just can't do that with the cdrom for some reason. I will prolly keep you updated as to what Happens and mabey post the instructions i created for myself to get teh drive to work