Installing Knoppix3.7 as a second O/S to XP, doesent seem po

**ruymbeke** · 02-03-2005, 06:22 PM

Originally Posted by stromhu

Can´t install Knoppix 3.7 om my laptop? I have tryed to make diffrent partitions like "primary ext3, logical ext3, logical fat32 etc" but when i use the installcommand "knoppix-installer" it says: "Can´t write to harddrive". And when i try: "IGNORE_CHECK=1 sudo knoppix-installer" i get error msg like: "Formatting of failed. Some messages from mkf.s.ext3: Usage: ext3 etc.....".
I have WinXP SP2 on my first partition and i really need this to be able to dual boot really zoon. Please help me if you know how.

Did you try the poor man install: boot from iso being inside the xp ntfs... Have a look at these:
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Win_Partition
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11796
It works on all my configs, Good luck, Gilles

**stromhu** · 02-04-2005, 03:32 PM

It seemes harder to do it that way? I vill try an just install debian.... Or if i find any other easy installed Linux

**ruymbeke** · 02-04-2005, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by stromhu

It seemes harder to do it that way? I vill try an just install debian.... Or if i find any other easy installed Linux

Actually it is much easier than it looks like. Just copy a couple of files, one of them being the knoppix iso, edit your boot.ini and reboot...
Gilles

**foamrotreturns** · 02-04-2005, 10:15 PM

try using the utillity "dban" on the disc. It's a hard disk wiper utility. This will erase the ENTIRE hard drive using a multipass technique. It's normally used for erasing sensitive data, but the hdd becomes truly blank after this. No MBR, no partition table, nothin but zeroes. So back up any data you want to keep, because it WILL be gone after using this utility. If you still have the same problem, you're probably looking at a hardware error.
Another thing to look at is a diagnostics floppy from your HDD manufacturer. Western Digital has Data Lifeguard Tools, and each manufacturer has their own. This technique got me out of a bind once. I had written a really nasty bad sector to the hard disk and it would not even load in any 3rd party application, no matter how low-level.

**ruymbeke** · 02-05-2005, 01:40 AM

Originally Posted by foamrotreturns

try using the utillity "dban" on the disc. It's a hard disk wiper utility. This will erase the ENTIRE hard drive using a multipass technique. It's normally used for erasing sensitive data, but the hdd becomes truly blank after this. No MBR, no partition table, nothin but zeroes. So back up any data you want to keep, because it WILL be gone after using this utility. If you still have the same problem, you're probably looking at a hardware error.
Another thing to look at is a diagnostics floppy from your HDD manufacturer. Western Digital has Data Lifeguard Tools, and each manufacturer has their own. This technique got me out of a bind once. I had written a really nasty bad sector to the hard disk and it would not even load in any 3rd party application, no matter how low-level.

The dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=1K should erase the partition table, Master boot record, boot sector, ... and is much faster than erase the hole disk. Be careful, this is a very powerful but dangerous command !
Cheers, Gilles