[plug] Putting knoppix in compressed form on a hard drive

[Daniel]

On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 23:46, John Clayton wrote:
> Hi can anyone tell me the procedure for getting knoppix to boot from a hard 
> disk the same way as with a cd? I want to format a 750 Mb hard drive 
> partition and copy the knoppix cd contents to this partition. I then want 
> the computer to boot this partition the same as it would the knoppix cd. I 
> have seen on the net that this has been done with a laptop and I was 
> wondering if anyone knows the procedure for this or can point me to an 
> appropriate HOWTO on the subject.

Hi John,
As I you undoubtably know - if disk space was not a problem you would
just do a regular knoppix hard disk install (how to for that below *) so
you could add or remove programs.

As you can only spare 750mb space my guess is you would:
copy the files over (cp -a ....) and then boot to another device (a
Knoppix cd or a floppy that can read their files system - reiser I
think), chroot to the knoppix and run lilo or grub (sorry I forget
which) so it can boot and find the kernel.

Check out 
* http://knoppix.net/
  http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

If my suggestion doesn't work then these are the experts -
(and Dr Knopper regularly chips in)
debian-knoppix mailing list
debian-knoppix at linuxtag.org
http://mailman.linuxtag.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-knoppix

Cheers,
Daniel.