Hi,

I know there are a lot of posts on the net and on this forumn for knoppix installation, but I can't follow a lot of them.

Here is what I want to do:

*I have a 10 gig portable hard drive, (I know how to boot from a portable hard drive)
and I want to be able to run knoppix 4.0 from that hard drive

*I read a little about having the bootable partition be like the cd, and be read only, (so it would free up
a cd drive)

Here is what I have:

*I have a 10 gig portable hard drive *mentioned above

*I have already partitioned it from a windows XP home machine
The swap partition is 384 megs, the partition for the OS itself is 3.5 gigs (The rest I plan to use for
another linux OS)

Here is what I tried:

1. Boot up with Knoppix LiveCD

2. At a terminal screen type: su -
*/hit enter, dah!/*

3. Type: sudo mount -o dev,rw /mnt/sda2
*/mnt stands for mount, sda2 is the hard drive partition I installed too, I can almost
guarantee that it will be different for you/*

4. Type: passwd

5. Type your new password for linux

6. Click on the "K" button
*/To start the knoppix version of the windows start menu/*

7. Choose system

8. Choose "More applications"

9. "File Manager Super User Mode"

10. Use your new password on the promt

11. Open the file, menu.lst (/boot/grub/meny.lst)

12. Edit the line that reads: "kernel /boot/vmlinuz root= /dev/hda2 ro ### isk_size=100000
init=/etc/init apm=power-off nomce"
*/Change the ### to form the work ramdisk (Your hda2 may be different)

13. Save the File

14. Reboot

*I get to step 11 and then I cannot find the file, plus I'm not even sure the swap partition was mounted.

If anyone could please help me, it would be greatly appreciated, O, and I don't mind deleting the
partitions, if I could just get the portable hard drive to boot just like the cd, it would be greatly
appreciated, thanks.

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Thanks Again -- Marshall