Hard Drive install

[kamal]

Hey could someone tell me everything i need to install knoppix on my hard drive?
i have a 80 gig
explain the things i would need like how to partition and how to get it to ask me when i boot
which os i wana use windows or knoppix help would be greatly appreciated.

if i left anthing out that you think i would also need help on feel free to add that in

[kamal]

anyone?

[firebyrd10]

First things first,

You need to partition the hardrive,
making sure all drives are unmounted (knoppix boots with unmounted) open up a consol and type

sudo qtparted

click your harddrive and wait.

Now, if there is already a partition you might need to resize. Right click it and click resize.
Click OK then go up to the menus and click commit.

Now that your done, or if there were no other partitions, right-click the free-space and click creat, your going to want to creat a ext3 partition that is atleast 3 gigs (more is better) with some left over. Now for the leftovers creat a swap partition, (shouldn't need to be more then 400 if you have 512 or 256 RAM).

Click commit again and close the window when done.


Back at the consol type

sudo knoppix-installer

and follow the instructions. Knoppix will install and put a bootloader in that will let you chose the OS.

[kamal]

what would i put these commands into?

the sudo qtparted?

what prog do i use?

im a noob i need more info

[firebyrd10]

what would i put these commands into?

the sudo qtparted?

what prog do i use?

im a noob i need more info

When you start knoppix you should see a picture of a black program window near the bottom right.
Thats Konsole, a Command line program.

sudo qtparted is acually two programs
sudo temporarily makes you root (administrator in windows) It can make you other users but thats not important right now.

qtparted is a partitioning program.

So you giving a partitioning program root privillages so it can access the drives.

All the bold commands go into konsole.

[kamal]

ok i have a 80 gig hard drive right now it has no partitions
how would i go about making the partitions i need for knoppix?

[abd_bela]

Hi,
I haven't tried the new release ( 3.7) , but I think the installation is the same as the previous.
You only to need to run the command knoppix-installer as a root
or use the Ctrl+alt+F1 to get the text login ( whithout graphical interface),
This suppose that you have a least a free partition for installing
I am using the knoppix 3.6 and completed with the debian package , it 's running very fine
best regards
bela

[abd_bela]

Hi,
I've just download the last knoppix (3.7), I tried to use the same way as with 3.6
to install it on HD. But it failed at reboot with following errors:

can't find ext3 on dev ....
cat't find vfat on dev .... ( no vfat partition in my HD)

kernel panic...


I rebooted with rescue RedHat 9.0 ( I don't know how to do it with debian ) , after mount and chroot to /dev/hda1 ( the root is here) I could run correctly the graphical interface. So the installation is complete, but the master boot was n't installed correctly ???

best regards
bela

[firebyrd10]

ok i have a 80 gig hard drive right now it has no partitions
how would i go about making the partitions i need for knoppix?

Open qtparted useing the commands I gave before and right-click the free space and go to creat partition.

Change the filesystem type to swap (probably says ext3 when you first open the dialog box) next tick the option that says "creat at the end of free space"
Last, change the partition size to about 200 megs.
Click ok then go up to the menu and click commit.

After thats done right click the free space again and click creat partition.
Make sure the filesystem type is set to ext3 and click ok.

Go up and click commit again and then close the window and run the installer.

abd_bela, I have no idea how to help you. Sorry

[kamal]

only 200 megs?

i thought it was more or is that something else?

im still confused