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I recently went through the pains of actually installing Knoppix to my laptops harddisk. Im not a "linux master" yet, and so I ran into a few snags that I had the joy of working out.
I suppose I should give a few stats on my laptop. It is not the latest and greatest by any means, yet does what I need it to do.
OK, now for the install. I download Knoppix 3.2 and toasted a CD with my desktop.
I then performed the normal procedures for installing Knoppix onto a HD. Logged in as root on my new system and proceeded to poke around the files and get the feeling for everything. That is when I ran into a few snags. I could not mount my cdrom nor my floppy/LS-120. So I took a peek in the /mnt folder. What? No CDROM or FLOPPY? <sigh> Ok what do we have?
ls /mnt
brought up
hda5 hdc sda
Then I did an ls again and verified that all my new directories were there. Then I ran a series of mount commands to be sure that I could now mount all the devices and sure enough I could.
Now to my fstab settings. There was a bunch of hardware found that was commented out and I viewed my fstab to look as follows:
# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec 0 0
# partitions found by Knoppix
/dev/hda1 /mnt/Win2k ntfs users,exec,ro,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
#/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/sda /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users,exec 0 0
#/dev/hdc /mnt/hdc auto noauto,users,exec 0 0
Now everything works and I can mount my drives. Now under the Knoppix user I had to install the OSS sound driver to make my sound card work and I have not yet tested the modem as I do not have a dialup account to try it on. Otherwise everything is running fine and I very happy. I hope that this post will inspire more posts of individuals installing Knoppix on to laptops.
Happy Tweaking Nthline