Here's what I want to do. Make a partition (hda10, and filesystem)
just large enough to hold the knoppix CD, mount the CD and cp -r
/cdrom/* to that partition. Or I could copy the raw iso I suppose with
dd if=/cdrom of=/dev/hda10. On the CD there is only one .img file, and
no files for /boot. Those would only be visible if one were to boot
knoppix first.

So then in lilo.conf I would use other=/dev/hda10 ... and then what?
Is this a particularly smart approach? Any less confusing than the
instructions that came with the remastered CD I got?

Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
> Here's what I want to do. Make a partition (hda10, and filesystem)

What do you mean by "boot from"? You can install knoppix on disk easily
enough!

> just large enough to hold the knoppix CD, mount the CD and cp -r
> /cdrom/* to that partition. Or I could copy the raw iso I suppose with
> dd if=/cdrom of=/dev/hda10. On the CD there is only one .img file, and
> no files for /boot. Those would only be visible if one were to boot
> knoppix first.
>
> So then in lilo.conf I would use other=/dev/hda10 ... and then what?
> Is this a particularly smart approach? Any less confusing than the
> instructions that came with the remastered CD I got?

I don't know what you are on about. Knoppix runs off (for its root) a
special compressed file that pretends to be a (compressed) block device
with a file system on it. It has its own driver in the knoppix kernel.
All you need to do is put that file on disk, put the knoppix kernel on
disk, add the knppix kernel to your boot loader, and change its bt
parameters to point at your hard disk and the file image on disk instead
of at the cdrom and its file image.

Besides .. knoppix comes with an install utility to put itself on disk
with!

Peter

Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Here's what I want to do. Make a partition (hda10, and filesystem)
> just large enough to hold the knoppix CD, mount the CD and cp -r
> /cdrom/* to that partition. Or I could copy the raw iso I suppose with
> dd if=/cdrom of=/dev/hda10. On the CD there is only one .img file, and
> no files for /boot. Those would only be visible if one were to boot
> knoppix first.
>
> So then in lilo.conf I would use other=/dev/hda10 ... and then what?
> Is this a particularly smart approach? Any less confusing than the
> instructions that came with the remastered CD I got?

Well, copying the files from the Live CD to hda10 won't give you a
Knoppix installation. See my previous message about a lilo.conf for
Knoppix INSTALLED to hda10.

jimbo