I sucessfully installed to HD the 3.4 ct version with the 2.6 kernel thanks largely to a thread in the "News" section and the wisdom and kindness of Stephen and champagnemojo who posted tips on how to get it to install. As somewhat of a novice myself, I felt it would be nice to put together an installation guide for how to get a HD install of Knoppix 3.4ct up and running with the 2.6 kernel, so here goes:

  1. boot the Knoppix Live CD (as the keyboard layout is German by default you'll need to use shift and 0 to get the = sign).

    Code:
    knoppix26 lang=us
  2. once in KDE on the live CD open konsole and issue the following commands:
    Code:
    wget http://debian.tu-bs.de/knoppix/insta...lates-0.39.tgz
cp /usr/sbin/knoppix-installer .
sudo ./knoppix-installer
    this will install the needed missing files, as well it will start the knoppix installation to your HD
  3. (I used /dev/hda3 so that's the reference point for example i'll use from here on out, please subsititute /dev/hda3 for whatever slice or HD you used). After Knoppix has been sucessfully installed to your HD you'll need to mount the drive you installed. and to save yourself a lot of headache later it's a good idea to download module-init-tools at this point too.

    Code:
    sudo mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 
cd /mnt/hda3/boot
sudo wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool...re9-1_i386.deb
    the sudo wget command with the URL following it is all on the same line, not two seperate lines, fyi.
  4. now that you've got that downloaded, just leave it there, you'll come back to install it later. As for now lilo on your installation drive needs to be updated.

    Code:
    sudo chroot /mnt/hda3/ /sbin/lilo -v
    once this has updated you're ready to reboot and take the CD, go ahead and do this.
  5. At lilo's boot menu select LinuxOLD (if you boot into linux you get kernel panic errors). Don't be surprised like I was when LinuxOLD boots up and your mouse/network card, etc might not be functioning. We're just botting into linuxOLD to do some text based maintence work. When KDE starts loading go ahead and kill it and drop to console:

    Code:
    Cntrl-Alt-F1
(log on)
su
Password:
cd /boot
mkinitrd -o linux-2.6.1.gz
    this will make an initrd image that WON'T cause a kernel panic when you try to boot into it normally.
  6. now it's time to add this entry to /etc/lilo.conf. Update /etc/lilo.conf as follows (I used vi but feel free to use the editor of your choice)

    Code:
    vi /etc/lilo.conf
    you'll come to a section looking something like this:
    Code:
     image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.1
        label=Linux
       initrd=/boot/initrd.gz
    replace the last line (initrd=/boot/initrd.gz) with the one you created earlier:

    Code:
    initrd=/boot/linux-2.6.1.gz
  7. you'll need to update lilo again for it to recognize the change you just made, so issue the following command:

    Code:
    /sbin/lilo -v
  8. Some last minute prep work we have to do now. remember the module-init-tools package you downloaded earlier? Well now it's time to install it so that your mouse, network card, sound card, etc. will be recognized when you reboot:

    Code:
    dpkg -i module-init-tools_3.0-pre9-1_i386.deb
  9. one last thing that needs to be done is to add an entry into /etc/fstab that the 2.6 kernel requires:

    Code:
    vi /etc/fstab
    add the following lines to the file
    Code:
    ## Needed for kernel 2.6
none            /sys            sysfs   defaults                0       0
    save the file, and then you're all set!
  10. you should now just have to reboot your computer, and choose Linux from lilo's boot menu, and voila you're up and running with the 2.6 kernel