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Re: [debian-knoppix] floppyconfig v. script and yet another install option



Klaus Knopper wrote:
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 06:49:42PM +0200, Hans-Achim Unger wrote:

is it possible in the next release to substitute the parameter floppyconf with a script that looks for knoppix.sh and executes it, like:

mdir a:knoppix.sh && /bin/mount /dev/fd0 /mnt && /bin/bash /mnt/knoppix.sh


It is possible, but...


I don't know weather it would make trouble on systems without floppy. Maybe knoppix.sh should be send in the background to prevent the system from hangup.


... it DOES give trouble, if you count 10
Minutes delay on a floppy-less Laptop.

Sorry, I forgot these things are around. It is really better to leave it as is. Thanks for pointing this out!



Another interesting for installation on an old 800MB HD:

Put the _compressed_ CD on Harddisk and boot from floppy:
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Make a 720 MD partition with fdisk, say /dev/hda1, user the rest as swap or data disk and use a floppylinux for:

dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda1  # assuming /dev/hdc is CDROM

You can not boot with syslinux or lilo AKAIK, but loadlin on a small dos partition should do I think, but I have not tested yet.


This should already work if you just copy the KNOPPIX directory to an
empty harddisk partition and boot from floppy, I think.

Regards
-Klaus
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