[NBLUG/talk] Quick and Dirty KNOPPIX install to HDD

[Steve Johnson]

I've dont this before and it worked, just remember to preserve
ownership and permissions, and not to copy /proc

I would probably use cpio to do this.

cd /knoppis/mnt/point; find . -mount -print0 | cpio -pdmv0 /new/disk/

-Steve




On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:58:38 -0800, Mark Street <mark at oswizards.com> wrote:
> I want to try a KNOPPIX install to HDD with a twist.
> 
> I installed DSL (Damn Small Linux) onto the USB key, now I want to install
> KNOPPIX onto the HDD from DSL.
> 
> I have partitioned the HDD with my partitions to hold linux and swap space.
> 
> I have a USB CDROM that has been mounted as scd0
> KNOPPIX 3.7 CD is mounted onto ~/cdrom.
> 
> The compressed KNOPPIX filesystem image from the CDROM has been mounted on
> cloop1.
> 
> I am wondering if it will work if I mount /dev/hda1 onto a mount point, copy
> the entire filesystem to hda1, chroot to hda1 and setup the boot loader to
> boot KNOPPIX.
> 
> I imagine there is some setup that must occur prior to the thing working....
> Am I on the right track here?  Kyle......? ; )
> 
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