How to boot as Debian after copying file to harddisk

**winglion** · 11-05-2004, 04:01 PM

I got a knoppix 3.3 cd and follow the suggest on the cd ,which
told me to copy the /KNOPPIX directory to harddisk as hdinstall.
The user home an user is also created. I boot with a grub for dos.

After doing that I got a pretty good system except that it change
my config file back to "de" ..

So , how can I stop booting like the live cd and get a Debian like system?

**mzilikazi** · 11-05-2004, 05:54 PM

Well since you cannot change the compressed image KNOPPIX you must do an actual installation. Boot the cd (or the compresssed KNOPPIX from hdd will work fine as well) and run the installer.

**winglion** · 11-06-2004, 01:34 AM

My system work well except that it run autoconfig every time it boot!

I thinking about editing the installer script ,ship the copy file step and
so that it can config my system as a debian like install.

Does any one had do it before?

I had find some discuss in this forum simuler to my problem. But I am a newbe and not dare to edit the script so far.

**CrashedAgain** · 11-06-2004, 05:56 AM

since you are booting with grub all you have to do is figure out how to change your grub start command to pass the bootcode 'knoppix lang=us' to knoppix on boot. In lilo this is done with an 'append=' line, I don't know grub but I'm sure it's possible.

**mzilikazi** · 11-06-2004, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by winglion

My system work well except that it run autoconfig every time it boot!

I thinking about editing the installer script ,ship the copy file step and
so that it can config my system as a debian like install.

Does any one had do it before?

I had find some discuss in this forum simuler to my problem. But I am a newbe and not dare to edit the script so far.

You are booting the compressed KNOPPIX image from hdd right? This is the same as booting the cd each time. Yes CrashedAgain is right, you can add lang=us to your boot line to get the English language environment however this is NOT a Debian like installation.

If you only wish to change the language then edit /boot/grub/menu.lst Here is my menu.lst entry for booting the compressed KNOPPIX file from Kanotix. Yours would be similar.

Code:

title BH09-KDE-STATIC /dev/hda7
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us vga=791 nomce alsa xmodule=fbdev home=/dev/hda7 myconf=/dev/hda7 hdb=scsi
initrd (hd0,6)/boot/miniroot.gz

**winglion** · 11-07-2004, 08:37 AM

Thank you ,guys!
Fallow you suggests , and some other docs I found with google,
I edit the knoppix-autoconfig in init.d ,and chang the default language
to en. It start with english now!

But my aim is to chage my install to a debian like system. The system
now I got as copying file to hd is a knoppix cd like system ,but not compressed , I think.

I had found some topic on the forum just like my situation. But there's
no answer. I will try agein and hold that somebody had serve it will
give me some advice again.

thank's for help again.