Installing Knoppix

Greg · 23 Mar 2006 at 11:35

Ok guys, I've got a spare Laptop HDD that i wish to use to install Knoppix onto.

I'm having problems installing it, in reference to partitions etc.

I go to the root, and type in 'knoppix-installer' press enter, and it takes me to 'qtparted' but from here i'm stuck, i've made a partition of some sort using 'xfs' but after this i dont know what to do.

I've looked for instructions, but i've not found any!

thanks for any help

regards,

Greg

Vonhelmet · 23 Mar 2006 at 12:14

Make 2 partitions. One swap (between 1 and 2 times the amount of physical RAM you have) and one of any filesystem you like, as large as you can spare, for the root partition.

Write the data to the partition table, then close qtparted. I imagine the installer will pick up from there.

Greg · 23 Mar 2006 at 14:34

vonhelmet said:
Make 2 partitions. One swap (between 1 and 2 times the amount of physical RAM you have) and one of any filesystem you like, as large as you can spare, for the root partition.

Write the data to the partition table, then close qtparted. I imagine the installer will pick up from there.

thats great, I got in a hickup but then i set the partition as 'active'

whats the best file system to use?

thans

greg

Vonhelmet · 23 Mar 2006 at 15:12

Greg said:
whats the best file system to use?

For the casual user, they are all much of a muchness. Ext3 is a very solid bet. They say reiserfs is better for lots of small files, but the improvements for the desktop user will be minimal. XFS is also good...

I'd go for ext3 to be honest.

Greg · 23 Mar 2006 at 16:21

Ok

Its now installed, and i've restarted, removed the CD, but it doesnt seem to want to boot from the HDD. Any ideas?

Sorry chaps, I'm totally at a loss here, i've no idea bout linux, hence the installation and wanting to play!

thanks

Greg

Greg · 23 Mar 2006 at 18:46

Anyone?

it says that its trying to boot from CDROM, but it says it cant find anything!

:confused: