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| Author: | leavingne [ Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:37 am ] |
| Post subject: | No CDROM installation? Can't find knoppix filesystem |
I have no cdrom. This is what I've done so far: Installed debian on box, just enough to get to shell. Fdisk'd an 800MB partition (/dev/hda1, DOS), the rest of the disk is ext3 (/dev/hda2) and swap (/dev/hda5). Used wget to grab KnoppMythR5A9.iso, expanded it to the DOS partition. So now I have /dos/boot/isolinux/... and /dos/knoppix/.... on /dev/hda1. Everything is there and md5sums are good. I copied loadlin to /dos/boot/isolinux and booted from a Win98 floppy, since I couldn't figure out how to make grub happy. From DOS: c:\BOOT\ISOLINUX\> loadlin.exe vmlinuz ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=miniroot.gz nomce nodma quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix I've tried it with/without nodma, same for the BOOT_IMAGE parameter. I tried adding expert. I tried adding fromhd=/dev/hda1 and also tried /dev/hda2, since at one point I decided to copy the KNOPPIX directory into / on my ext3 partition. I tried adding bootfrom=/dev/hda2/km/KnoppMythR5A9.iso No matter what I do, it boots to the point where it looks for the knoppix file (I guess) -- it scans through /dev/ and then says it Can't find knoppix filesystem, and I get a "limited" shell. Worthless is more like it. This works: mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2 /mnt and I can verify that the drive is mounted correctly and things are where they should be -- of course, I don't have "ls" so I have to use "cd" and "pwd" trickery like this: cd; cd /mnt/km/; cd K* (at which point it tells me it can't cd to KnoppMythR5A9.iso -- of course not, it's not a directory -- which establishes that it can see the file). This doesn't work: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt says: FAT: codepage cp437 not found I've tried re-fdisk'ing /dev/hda1 as FAT32 (was originally FAT16), mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hda1, no help. But so what if /dev/hda1 is "broken" in KnoppMyth's eyes? It still scans to /dev/hda2 and finds nothing :( I'll keep trying but would love some suggestions! |
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| Author: | cesman [ Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:04 am ] |
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There are no provisions for installing w/o a CD-ROM. Sorry, you're on your own. You may find some additional details on knoppix.net. Good luck, |
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| Author: | leavingne [ Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Got it working! |
Not sure what I was doing wrong before, but I figured out how to get grub to work. The vmlinuz kernel on the KnoppMyth ISO doesn't like DOS filesystems (who does??). So I changed /dev/hda1 to be ext2. Basically this is what it took: I had a base debian system installed... barely. I never got through the full install, just enough to get to a command prompt. Probably didn't need to go that far even. use fdisk to change hda1 to partition type 0x83 (Linux) mke2fs /dev/hda1 mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/kmcd download ~/KnoppMyth.iso mount -o loop ~/KnoppMyth.iso ~/km cp -a ~/km/* /mnt/kmcd cat >> /boot/grub/menu.lst title KnoppMyth root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/isolinux/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 initrd /boot/isolinux/miniroot.gz boot ^D I think that was it... reboot and choose KnoppMyth from the grub menu. Now all I have to do is get a tuner card, bigger hard drive, etc :) |
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