[TriLUG] Installing Knoppix on hard drive revisited!!

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 03:13 PM, al johnson wrote:

> Today, I got curious and after visiting several websites about 
> Libranet and
> Knoppix, I learned a lot of new stuff. the following item from the main
> Knoppix site purports to give simple instructions for installing 
> Knoppix on
> your hard drive!! I've copied the entire set of instructions for those 
> who
> also might be interested in this process:

I just did this on my desktop at work today, having hit an "up2date 
moment" that caught me in the mood for switching distros.

If you use the English CD, you can cut out a large amount of these 
instructions, like steps 7 through 14.

> Installation Procedure
> To get Knoppix installed onto your hard drive:
>
>    1. Boot the Knoppix CD.
>
>    2. When the boot prompt comes up, choose your language.
>       Most of us speak English, so we'll type:
>       boot: knoppix lang=en then press ENTER (you don't type the 
> 'boot:'
> part, of course)
>
>    3. Wait till the system is fully launched, including the KDE desktop
>
>    4. Press CTRL-ALT-F1, to get a root console. You should see a shell 
> prompt
>
>    5. Type: knx-hdinstall
>
>    6. Follow the guided installation menus. This will include:
>
>           * Creating a Linux partition (at least 2.5GB
>           * Creating a Linux Swap partition (at least 256MB)
>           * 'Mounting' the Linux partition as root
>           * Initialising the swap partition
>           * Copying all the required files (automatically)
>           * Setting up networking
>           * Setting passwords
>           * Setting up the bootloader (Note: take care with this stage 
> - it
> could render your system incapable of booting into Windows. If you 
> really
> need Windows, then it might be a good idea to set up GRUB Bootloader 
> with a
> 'chainloader' entry, so that you can dual boot. Working this out is an
> exercise left to the reader - there are too many possible scenarios 
> for me to
> cover in this short guide. Also see man grub and the files in
> /usr/share/doc/grub)
>           * Rebooting (without the CD)
> [snip]
>   15. (Optional) - type apt-get update (followed by ENTER). This will 
> update
> your list of available packages, and takes about 5-10 minutes.
>
>   16. Hey, presto, you've got a fully installed GNU/Linux desktop

I'm going through the gyrations of getting LDAP authentication working 
here but so far it looks good.  I want to spend more time with Debian 
because I'm getting ready to deploy a lot of embedded systems that I 
won't have ready physical access to, and I want something very stable 
that is easy to upgrade.  I'll probably end up using the Pebble Linux 
distro (another Debian flavor) because it is made to run on flash disk 
already and it is quite small.  I will probably go through some effort 
to make it smaller still, and focus a bit more on IPv6 services, 
routing protocols and SNMP.  I don't really need these things to run 
apache or squid or named or anything like that.

- --

Chris Hedemark
UNIX / Linux / BSD / Mac OS X / Windows consulting available.  No job 
too small!
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