[This message has also been posted.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:46:07AM +0800, Lian Liming wrote: >> Hi all, >> I wonder if i can install knoppix directly to the hard disk? >> I heard that the knoppix is based on debian system. So after >> installed the knoppix to hard disk, can i use the "apt " package tools >> on it? >> Thank you for suggestions! >> > Yes, you can install Knoppix on hard disk, and make it bootable. > The instructions as to how to do it are on the Knoppix disk somewhere. > I remember seeing them, but don't remember exactly where. > Consider, instead, installing the real Debian. Many people of only modest > skill have done it, myself included.
In a pinch, you can install Knoppix to HD. Get a root shell (it's under the fat penguin on the KDE panel) and type knoppix-installer In older versions of Knoppix, that command was knx-install. Be warned, knoppix-installer is not very flexible. It will install your whole system in two partitions: one file system and one swap. And that setup is buried in the initial ramdisk image. Correcting that problem has turned out to be very difficult, and I haven't gotten any answers about how to do it from the Knoppix.net forums. (How do you make a working Knoppix installation with /usr on its own partition?) If you want a Debian system that will be easy to maintain and configure, install official Debian. See http://gandhi.greens.org/~cls/knoppixsheet.pdf and http://gandhi.greens.org/~cls/knxcd.pdf. The latter is in the sleeve when GP of Santa Clara County distributes Knoppix. Fold carefully and it will just fit in a CD jewel box. -- Cameron http://web.greens.org/~cls/linux/knoppixoffer.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]