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    move Knoppix to the hard drive problems cfdisk fatal error

    yeah. lets say for example, I wanted to copy knoppix to the hard drive, and run and boot it from there,

    how would I do that exactally?

    someone said there is a script to do so on the Knoppix CD, where is that at?

    say for instance, I wanted to use my existing partition
    /dev/hda3 (13 gig) for my Linux root
    /dev/hda5 (1.3 mb) for my Linux swap

    how would I format these partitions (currently they have redhat on them) how would I format these partitions and put Knoppix on them instead?

    I tried to use cfdisk in Knoppix, but it gave me an eror
    "fatan error, Cannot Open DIsk Drive"
    the hard drive is set to 'read only" I guess, so how would I disable
    this to format my partitions? I want to keep the partitions the same,
    just format them and put Knoppix on them is what I'm trying to do

    hda3 is where I want Linux native to be, and hda5 as my swap partition.

    I noticed that knoppix won't swap to hard disk unless it finds a DOS partition, why is this? can't I just put it in my already existing ext3 partition? I don't mind formatting the partitions, fact I want to to get the redhat off there, but then how do I put knoppix on there instead? I don't see no script to do this,
    other then saving desktop settings to hard drive, and that will only save to a DOS partition, which sucks actually.

    (not sure what hda4 is, I know hda2 is my /boot partition for redhat, which I probably don't need in knoppix) and
    hda1 is an NTFS partition and I don't want to put it there, want to leave
    that alone basically. I'll probably have to put LILO in hda2 and put LILO in my MBR.

    so how would I do this exactally?
    so far I am yet to see a script on how to do this.
    why doesn't knoppix come with this on the CD? since so many people
    ask to do this. would only make sense.
    thanks.

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    Re: move Knoppix to the hard drive problems cfdisk fatal er

    nevermind

    at a terminal, I typed

    knoppix-installer

    it didn't say anywhere to do that, I just sorta figured it out on my
    own I guess. it detected both my hda3 and 5 partitions and automatically used them accordingly, and then formatted them.
    very nice I like it

    only question I have now is,

    can I put Gnome on here instead? I like Gnome so much better then KDE

    and can I use Grub instead of LILO? Grub has more options then LILO

    thanks

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