Installing knoppix to hard drive

**Torgo** · 05-06-2005, 07:23 AM

Hello. I am brand new to Knoppix. I am trying to install Knoppix 3.8.1 to my HD. I run the knoppix-installer script, but when I get down to the partitioning part, cfdisk (I think) tells me that I do not have permission to write to the disk. The hard disk is blank totally with no partitions defined.

Can anyone give me a detailed description of how to install to my hard disk??

Thanks.

**marhleet** · 05-06-2005, 09:10 AM

I have to restrain myself........ [hard day at work]
somewhat!

have you looked ?
it's
sudo knoppix-installer

you need permission, and if you haven't sudo'd you haven't doen it properly

**Torgo** · 05-06-2005, 09:47 AM

I am following this install guide/thread (from the terminal, in su mode)

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18766

It is installing right now.

One question-
On my hard drive, I know I should have one main partition and one swap.

Is the main partition primary and the swap logical?
I am using cfdisk.

**marhleet** · 05-06-2005, 10:01 AM

thinx there is some room for linux to cope with three REAL primary drives (?)
I've set mine to three partitions (not sure why)
small EXT2 - bootable
reasonable SWAP
rest EXT3

**Torgo** · 05-06-2005, 10:18 AM

I have sucessfully installed it...
(more later)

**Torgo** · 05-06-2005, 04:42 PM

It works well.

But when I was installing it, it seems to have ignored my swap partition-- the installer said "no swap needed".

**fpd** · 05-10-2005, 01:39 PM

Torgo,

I believe I get the same errors as you during knoppix-installer.

I am using an HP Pavilion ze4145 (notebook). Windows XP is installed first (60GB HDD), then I used qtparted to squeeze a 10GB partition for Linux. I first installed Mepis easily, but the desktop was ugly and slow. Now I am trying to install Knoppix 3.8... but ...

I tried sudo and su with the same error results. I tried the link you provided, too. What was your solution, Torgo?