new Kanotix version 06-2004

[gowator]

nishita your prob is prbably the fact its an initrd kernel.
there are numberous ways around this but I find the most convenient is a small partition for /boot

I let each distro do what it wants and overwrite the MBR then copy the /boot stuff (renaming as appopriate and not copying the symlinks like vmlinuz BUT not forgetting hidden files ...

backup the installed lilo.conf then I find the previous lilo.conf and copy it to /etc and edit it to add the last distro and rerun. (you need to make sure you keep all the correct copies by kernel name)

Once you do this you can use your apt cache to reinstall all the stuff from the other version of kanotix.... (I think /var/apt/cache) Im at work now so hard to be exact!

then I copy the /etc/apt/sources.list
and apt-get upsdate
then run synaptic and see upgradable packages since you might have later version you might prefer.

None of this touches your sacred BH4.... but it should give you everything you want...

another trick is I have a large /shared partition I use as a quasi home.
if you share your home across distros then .kde and other stuff gets messy thus I mount a partition as /home/user/shared for all the non specific stuff... (downloads/docs etc.)

[nishtya]

see, Kansas, this is where it all gets messier than I can handle. Init scripts are exactly the reason I have SOOO MANY problems with live CDs. Though kanotix was the first to give me a little more choice in the matter. When I have tried to boot kanotix & knoppix or knoppix & knoppix for that matter I run into some awful mucky muck where lilo tries (and sometimes suceeds _ in booting one distro with another's kernel (is that as convoluted as it sounds? but that is what seems to happen and it ain't pretty). So I gave up. Figure I will always have my main o/s, a linux distro (likely always kanotix) dual booting with 98 on the other disk. And trying to keep a third choice of linux booted with a flippy. Getting close to just overwriting the extra linux' partition for storage. I think it is the live CD distro thing, but too much for me to digest to get working together.

[A. Jorge Garcia]

DL at:

ftp://debian.tu-bs.de/kanotix/KANOTI...ER-06-2004.iso

Thanx for the link! Where do I get the md5sum file for this file?

TIA,
AJG

[gowator]

We can almost certainly help ....

I kept getting in messes myself before I just decided to make a /boot

I manually copy everything over from the /boot created by knoppix etc. and dont use the linked names like vmlinuz ... instead I make sure I use the full kernel name etc.

Once you actually do this and find the files etc. it becomes a lot simpler... I get rid of the graphic boot screen and nice stuff like that in favour of the plainest lilo.conf I can

I think I might have answered this for you on the kanotix board?
if so we should prob just keep one living thread!

[mzilikazi]

DL at:

ftp://debian.tu-bs.de/kanotix/KANOTI...ER-06-2004.iso

Thanx for the link! Where do I get the md5sum file for this file?

TIA,
AJG

It's md5sum: debc7802cfaa3fac047a3926dadb7455

But you can get it here: http://kanotix.com

[mzilikazi]

see, Kansas, this is where it all gets messier than I can handle. Init scripts are exactly the reason I have SOOO MANY problems with live CDs. Though kanotix was the first to give me a little more choice in the matter. When I have tried to boot kanotix & knoppix or knoppix & knoppix for that matter I run into some awful mucky muck where lilo tries (and sometimes suceeds _ in booting one distro with another's kernel (is that as convoluted as it sounds? but that is what seems to happen and it ain't pretty). So I gave up. Figure I will always have my main o/s, a linux distro (likely always kanotix) dual booting with 98 on the other disk. And trying to keep a third choice of linux booted with a flippy. Getting close to just overwriting the extra linux' partition for storage. I think it is the live CD distro thing, but too much for me to digest to get working together.

You can easily boot your other installs with grub. Simply run update-grub. If you have specific entries you want to keep in /boot/grub/menu.lst then put them before the "### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST" For example I want my 2.6.8-rc2 kernel to use the bootsplash so I need to append "splash=silent " and add an initrd entry to the boot line for that kernel. Running update-grub will wipe those out so I put that entry out of the way.

title		2.6.8-rc2 
root		(hd0,0)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-rc2 root=/dev/hda1 ro splash=silent vga=791
initrd /boot/initrd.splash 
savedefault
boot

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

<area used by update-grub>

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

And it will not be changed when you run update-grub. You don't need lilo installed anywhere for any reason.

[eris23]

Just figured I'd mention that the GRUB on the Kanotix 05-2004 and 06-2004 (and GNUStep 0.5 which is based on Morphix) cdroms doesn't work on some old bioses. I've found two computers which, even if set to boot from cdrom, bypass the cdrom and boot from the hard disc with the above-mentioned distros (while Knoppix and Damn Small Linux boot fine). I was able to run Smart Boot Manager from floppy to boot to the above cdroms on one machine, but the other machine doesn't have a floppy drive -- so, anyone one knows of a boot manager that loads into memory from a cdrom, and can then boot a cdrom in the same drive (or another drive on a usb interface), please tell me.