[plug]Knoppix - convenient but troublesome

[Sol]

Thankyou PLUGers!

I got Knoppix working - despite the German installation! - and so far as I can 
tell it detected all of my hardware (there are a couple of matters that 
require further investigation). Thanks for the tips. I was quite surprised 
that Knoppix did autodetect so much of my hardware given that it's a new Sony 
Vaio.

Whilst the installation detected hardware well, it wasn't very flexible. I've 
had to uninstall a lot of gui stuff, and I'm in the middle of dependency 
hell. (I been here before and know how to get out now.)

However, I don't know how to get the installation to recognize my partitions. 
I set up my partitions thus:
hda1	Boot	Primary		16.46
hda5		Logical		9730.51
hda6		Logical		20003.89
hda7		Logical	swap	254.99

hda5 is my root partition, but the system doesn't recognize hda6, which is 
where I wanted to put /home. How can I move /home onto hda6?

Thankyou in advance,
sol

PS: re: plug at plug postings - I have to say, as a "hobbyist" that I'm more than 
happy that there are linux professionals on this list. I've benefitted 
enormously from their advice over the past two years - indeed, PLUG has been 
a big part of my computing education since I bought my first PC 2 1/2 years 
ago starting out with SuSE7.0. Peer pressure forced me into switching to 
Debian, a decision I've never looked back on (assuming you can include 
Knoppix in that ;)). And on occasions when I've been too lazy or naive to 
search for something obvious, I've either not received a reply or been told 
to look harder. For my part, I've tried to read further on any answers that 
I've been given. That's how I've learnt about Linux/OSS.
Who knows, perhaps someday I'll even start answering more questions than I 
ask? :-)





On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:15 pm, clare at cyllene.uwa.edu.au wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Matt Kemner wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, quoth Sol:
> > > Perhaps it's just those funny pills I've been taking, but I'm presently
> > > installing Knoppix on my harddrive.....in German!
> >
> > You downloaded the -DE .iso rather than the -EN .iso didn't you? :)
>
> Even with the En version you can strike problems.
>
> But I have found the instructions.
> They came from a site
> http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html
> which is OK again, though the main page gives nothing useful.
> The person who wrote it was  David McNab
> david at freenet.org.nz
>
> This is the relevant part:
> After doing the reboot, click control center (icon of a colour monitor
> with a card in front of it)Within control center click on
> Personliche Einstellungen
>
> Click on     Land und Sprache
>
> Choose the locale and language you want
>
> click on    Andwenden      at the bottom of that window
>
> close and restart the control center
>
>
> Click on Peripherals    then  Keyboard
> and choose your keyboard layout which will probably be US english
> click Ok
>
> and I guess that last bit means it is now talking English.
>
>
> cheers,
> clare