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 Tech
Talk
5/15/05
In
my column I hope to bring you
some information that will help
as you plan your new business
online, explore new products, and
in general, help you stay
informed. Most of the information
found here is my own personal
experiences, or information I
have gathered from the net. If it
helps you, great, please let me
know. If not, please, no hate
mail.
This information has been passed
on from Jim Hottinger.
LINUX-KNOPPIX
LIVE CD - KNOPPIX LINUX; HARD
DRIVE SETUP:
Jim
Hottinger
What
is KNOPPIX®?
KNOPPIX
is a bootable CD with a
collection of GNU/Linux software,
automatic hardware detection, and
support for many graphics cards,
sound cards, SCSI and USB devices
and other peripherals. KNOPPIX
can be used as a Linux demo,
educational CD, rescue system, or
adapted and used as a platform
for commercial software product
demos. It is not necessary to
install anything on a hard disk.
Due to on-the-fly decompression,
the CD can have up to 2 GB of
executable software installed on
it. KNOPPIX Version 3.8.2 is now
available at www.knoppix.org.
When I went to set it up I ran
into some problems. After many
hours of reading many
instructions and trying different
things:
This Is The Way I Did It:
Getting The Partitions Set Up
Is The Hardest
Part::I Used A 6.4 GB Hard Drive.
Don't Know What HD Is To Small, I
Think It Will Fit On A 3.2GB Hd
With A 200MB Swap File} Ok....Use
98 Fdisk {Win98 Startup Disk}To
Make A Primary Partition ,Set
Primary Partition Active, Don't
Format {Note! If You Screw Up The
Partitions While In Linux You
Can't Fix With 98 Fdisk, Use
Western Digital EZ Drive Disk And
Remake The Partition ,Then Fdisk
With Win98 Don't Format ! To get
Rid Of The Command.com . It Has
Been My Experance That Linux
Doesn't Like A Bootable Hard
Drive For Windows} You Need A
Minimun Of AT Least 128 mb of
Ram, It's Better If You Have 196
mb. I Used A 300 mhz Processor;
Works Better On A Faster
Processor. Change The Bios To
Boot To CD-ROM, If It Isn't
Already Set Up That Way.
KNOPPIX INSTALL: Put
Knoppix Live CD In The Master
CD-ROM If You Have Two CD-ROM
& Reboot Computer. { BOOT}
Will Appear AT Bottum Of Screen,
Press ENTER. May Ask For
Video Resolution; I Used
{6}=800x600; {Knoppix Has A
Problem With Older Video Cards,
You Will Find Out Just Like I
Did.} It May Auto Load The
Resolution. When It Loads The CD
Let It Settle In. Make Sure That
You Have One Hard Drive On Desk
Top; It Will Be Hda1={Primary
hd},. Remember You Are Running
Off Of A CD, That Has Loaded It's
Working Parts Into Ram! So You
Are Working From Ram. Go To {K}
At Left In Task Bar & Click
On It, Go To System, Then To
QTParted And Click. Window Pops
Up; Click On dev\hda . On Right
PopUp, Right Click On It &
Click On Format ,{Window Pops Up}
,One Of The Bars Has EXT3, Pull
Down & Change To FAT32 Then
Go To Devices & Commit
.{Allways Go To Devices &
Click On Commit After You Change
Anything}. Will Finish
Successfully. Right Click On The
FAT32 Partition & Go To
Resize. Then Change The Top MB To
200 UpTo 500MB Less Than It Is,
For Instansts 6245.47MB To
6ooo.47MB This Will Give You A
245MB SWAP File & It Will
Make 02 Partition, Right Click On
02 & Click On Create & Go
To Pull Down & click On
Knoppix SWAP And Resize What Ever
MB You Want; From 200 Up To 500
Mb from it & Retype It
In.{4000 Minus 200=3800 MB} let
it finsh. Click On Devices &
Commit. Then Right Click On The
FAT32 Partition & Change It
To A EXT2 {NOT EXT3} Partition
& Go To Devices &
Commit.. It Should Be
Successfull. Ok You've
Repartitioned Your HD To A EXT2
Partition & Made A Knoppix
SWAP File....Now Go To Little
Monitor In Bottom Task Bar, Click
On It; Shell Konsole Window Will
Come Up; Type Sudo
Knoppix-installer Then Hit
[ENTER] Install Window
Pops Up ,Click On Installition,
Then Click On Like CD &
Follow The Instructions :::: Good
Luck P.S. I Have Figured Out The
Hard Part For You. Took Me
Most Of A Week & A Half And
Three Hands Full Of Hair.
Looks Like These People That
Write These Programs Would Help
Us Linux Newbies Out By Writing A
Step By Step ReadMe File, On How
To Install On A Hard Drive Or
Just Make One Like Corel Linux.
Don't Get Me Wrong, I Thing
Knoppix Is A Darn Good Operating
System & It's Free. It Has
More Stuff On It Than Carter Has
Pills. You Are Welcome. Thank You
Mr. Knopper! jhott43@yahoo.com
My thanks to Jim for this
information.
Rob Eubanks - Tech Talk -
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Email: rob@cybercreekdesign.com
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