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

[Mark Street]

On Friday 18 March 2005 16:14, Kyle Rankin wrote:
> First of all, is there any particular reason you want to install Knoppix
> using this method instead of just booting the Knoppix CD itself and running
> "sudo knoppix-installer"? That would be the best way go to about it.

Because on the Dell Latitude D400 I do not have any peripherals - floppy or 
CD, there is some sort of proprietary CD/Floppy USB connection on the side 
and an additional USB in back.  So my only option was a USB mass storage 
device to get into the machine to get it to boot and the USB in back to mount 
the KNOPPIX CD.

I know I have to edit the boot loader either menu.lst/grub.conf or lilo.conf 
and the fstab.

> That being said, you are basically on the right track, you copy the
> contents of the entire compressed filesystem onto your drive and tweak a
> few things and then set up the boot loader.

Thanks Kyle!  I will read the script.

> Those "few things" you need to tweak are things I can't tell you offhand.
> You used to do this sort of thing by hand with Knoppix, like you want to
> do, but ever since they automated it, I haven't really followed any extra
> bits of magic the script does internally.  The best way to figure that
> out is to actually read the knoppix-installer script. It's just a basic
> bash script and you should be able to reasonably quickly skip past all
> the menuing and such to get to the actual copying of the filesystem and
> then see what extra things they do.

> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:58:38PM -0800, Mark Street 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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