Quote Originally Posted by SiKing
Hi all,
I have been searching these formus (fora?) and the Knoppix wiki for a while now. I have found several different discussions regarding "Poor man's install". There are various theories on running Knoppix from one single HD partition, and I have managed to get it done myself ... from a FAT partition. My question is: can it be done from one single NTFS parition?
I know the answer must be someone around here ... perhaps I am just looking in the wrong place, perhaps this simply cannot be done. Can some kind sould give me a gentle shove in the right direction.
Thanx for looking.
Yes I have done it and I use it evey day.
The trick is to use a special port of grub: grldr which is started from the Windows boot loader (ntldr) via an extra line in the boot.ini
and a new boot ramdisk: minirt_usb2.gz which includes and loads the ntfs linux kernel module
and also includes a patched linuxrc boot script to allow knoppix to boot from the iso cd image located in the ntfs partition.
Please have a look in here to find all the details about it:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...?p=97923#97923
The minirt_usb2.gz boot ramdisk will also allow you to boot Knoppix from a ISO file located on fat12/16/32, ext2/3 or reiser partition.
Moreover, it will allow you to change the hostname of the machine with a fixed or dynamic name (network_hw_address or time)
and has a bug fix for using the USB2.0 kernel module on USB2.0 hardware (instead of always using the slow USB1 kernel module).
Cheers,
Gilles