Found it was Re: [plug] Putting knoppix in compressed form on a hard drive

[John Clayton]

Found a site that describes the steps needed for this

http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/HdBasedHowTo


>From: Daniel <cottmain at plug.linux.org.au>
>Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>Subject: Re: [plug] Putting knoppix in compressed form on a hard drive
>Date: 10 Aug 2003 09:45:34 +0800
>
>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.
>
>

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