Hi,
> Also all published articles on installing these packages barely have a
> sentence relating to partitioning, which has added to the frustation.
This is so b'cause Partitioning is very specific to the system and the user.
Hence usually people do not specify a partitioning scheme.
> To describe my challenge simply, I have Windows C:,D:,E; & F: . F: is 11Gb,
> & all I want to do is to simply use this space & partition for Linux & Swap.
> Is that so difficult? Is it possible to get some guidance in simple English
> on how to do this. I need a "Select this then click on that & then click OK"
> kind of guidance, such as which Windows has (BTW why is Linux so much
> harder to install than Windows. Is Windows smarter?)Ooops, *now* I've done
> it!.
Installtion instructions that I have attached to this email are for Knoppix 3.2
But I am sure they will work for Knoppix 3.1 also.
And while installing knoppix you will realise that Installing Linux is hardly any
difficult than Window$
This document is helpfull to you.
Shashank
Installation of Knoppix (which is essentially Debian distribution of GNU/Linux) is
as simple as installing Window$ so don't worry.
I have tried to give as much information as possible here incase sonething is missing
or is incorrect please feel free to contact me. As far as partitioning is considered
I have given a minimum necessary scheme. Fairly complex schemes are possible.
Good luck with this!!!
Step 1. Boot your m/c from knoppix CD.
Step 2. Immediately after booting from CD knoppix will ask you for
boot parameters, here just press enter or you can press F2 and look
up the parameters kernel takes and give the once necessary for your
hardware usually this is not needed.
Step 3. Knoppix will detect all your hardware, and initialise the necessary
drivers. (You do nothing for this to happen :-D)
Step 4. By default knoppix will start KDE for you.(If you dont understand,
this is the name of the Graphical User Interface) now once you are here
open a console. On the task bar you should be able to see no of icons
click on the icon who's tooltip says "konsole". Doing so will open up
a window with a command prompt in it.
Step 5. In here type command "sudo /usr/local/bin/knx-hdinstall" This will start
the installation script. Complete installation will need around 2.5 GB
of hard disk space (That is so because knoppix installs everything even
the kitchen sink.;-))
NOTE: If the command in step 5 fails. then type "locate knx-hdinstall" at the
command prompt. this will tell you where knx-hdinstall script is located
use that path instead of the above mentioned path.
Step 6 Now that the installation program has got going get your self a cup of
cofee or tea. After Install script asks you couple of questions. It will
start cfdisk for you so that you can partition your hard disk. Here mouse
will not work. Use Up and Down arrow keys to scroll across the list of
partitions and Right and Left arrow keys scrolling through the menu which is
present at the bottom of the screen. You will not be able to see your
windows partitions as C: D: etc since partitions are named differently in
Linux.
You will have to recognise them based on there sizes.
Step 7. Now delete the partition where you want to install knoppix. for that scroll to
that partition and just select delete from the bottom menu and press enter.
You will see that the partitions has been deleted, and a new entry which says
free space has appeared.
Step 8. Now you are ready to create the partitions necessary for knoppix whoosh!!
You will need to create two partitions. one is a very small partition called
swap partition, and another will be the large partions called root partition
where knoppix will install itself.
Creating Swap partition: Scroll down to the Free Space and Select new. Enter
the size of the partition this should not be greater than 256MB so you can max
it at 256 MB. Then press enter. It will ask from where to create the partition
select "begining" here. Now select this newly created partition.
Select Type from the menu on the next screen you will see a list of file
system
types CFDisk can initialise for you, there you type "82 " at the prompt this
is
the id for swap filesystem.
Creating root partition: Here again select the Free Space entry and select new,
press enter accept what ever size it reccomends. Again create the partition
from the begining of the free space. This time you don't need to change the
file system type.
Step 9 Now select write and press enter. Your new partition table information will be
written to the hard disk. viola !!!! now smile :-D but don't quit "cfdisk" yet.
Before proceeding note down name's of the partitions and what is it's
"FS Type" you will need this info later.
Step 10 select quit to quit from the CFDISK program.
Step 12 After this step knoppix will ask you to which file system type to install
choose
any one of it.
INFO: ext2 File system is an old work horse i.e. It's tested and proven
ext3, Reiserfs and xfs are new but Journaling filesystems. I will prefer one
of these.
Step 13 On the next prompt it will ask you which partition do you want to mount as
swap and
which partition do you want to mount as root or "/" select the appropriate
partition on this screen. Hope noted these things as instructed in step 9.
Step 14 Installation will start copying necessary files to your harddisk. This should
take
20 - 40 minuites depending on your m/c. Now is the time for that cofee ;-)
(hope it has not become cold.).
After this Installation will ask you few more questions like root password and
password
for user knoppix. enter your selection at both the prompts. And then if you want to
start
some of the networking s/w and so on. For a Home PC you can answer no to these propmts.
After install script exits grace fully your system should be ready for a reboot.
Reboot
it and you will see a lilo propmpt where all your partitions will be listed. select
the
Linux label and there you go.
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