Re: more install problems
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 16:25, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 August 2003 14:28, Geoff Thurman wrote:
> [...now irrelevant context snipped...]
>
> > I'm a newbie, and this might in any case be too late to help, but
> > the best instructions for installing Knoppix to hdd are probably
> > those on www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/debian-knoppix.html. They made
> > sense to me, and the way I feel at the moment that might be
> > saying something.
>
> Okay. Try anything once. I don't know why the instructions on the
> disk said there was no install script. True, it is fairly basic,
> and insists on a single partition for root and everything... If it
> works, well and good. I've repartitioned and it has started
> copying. I'll let you know.
Update: Flawless. It installs and boots. A few configurations in
/etc/hosts and so forth and the networking is alive. I HAVE A
WORKING DEBIAN! Sorry to shout, but -- well -- it took a while.
A thousand thanks to everyone who helped. Even the ideas that didn't
pan out were very informative.
--
richard
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