Instaling linux to HD or Flash Disk?

eppik · Post by **eppik** » 13 Feb 2007, 07:39

Hey i have a distro of Knoppix Linux Live CD....

When i click install to HD option nothing happens, is there another way?

Can i install it no my USB flash drive?

Post by **bad_brain** » 14 Feb 2007, 05:41

yeah, I don't know why they placed that non-functional "install to HD"-option there, for me it's a bug...

look here for a step by step guide:
http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html

and well, installing it to an USB drive is not a good choice imo...first because it's a pain in the ass if you're not familiar with Linux already (look here: http://rz-obrian.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/knoppix-usb/ ) and second because not all BIOSs support booting from USB anyway.

Knoppix and its' derivatives like Damn Small Linux are imo good for emergency procedures like saving data from broken Windows systems which became unbootable, but I only recommend them as real desktop systems when your hardware resources are very limited (Pentium 1 or older). else I recommend to use a complete Linux distro like Debian (my favorite) or Fedora, Debian with Gnome desktop for example runs fine even on my old Pentium 2 266MHz with 386MB RAM.

eppik · Post by **eppik** » 14 Feb 2007, 09:49

I downloaded UBUNTU

is there any way to export the knoppix tools in the knoppix live cd to the UBUNTU on my HD?

(btw i have a 21 gig non used space on my HD, how do i install UBUNTU, what partition tipes and how many i need (ntfs, linux swap, etc...?)?

Post by **bad_brain** » 14 Feb 2007, 15:13

here you can find detailed info:
https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/ins ... index.html
(I assume it's a i386 system, but it shouldn't be really different for other architectures)

you say you have some free space, does this mean you have Windows installed already and want to setup a multi-OS system? if yes make sure to backup all important data first....

and no need to transfer apps from Knoppix to Ubuntu (it wouldn't work anyway most likely). Ubuntu uses apt-get as packet manager, this means you can install all kind of apps and packages which are listed in the Ubuntu repositories (and most of the Debian ones too):
http://packages.ubuntu.com/
so let's say you want to install nmap, all you have to do is to type:

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apt-get install nmap

that's all! (you have to be online of course)

eppik · Post by **eppik** » 14 Feb 2007, 15:55

But if i get the aps in standalone packages can i install them? (like in suck-o's download linux page)

Post by **bad_brain** » 15 Feb 2007, 05:53

if it's a source package: yes
if it's a precompiled package for other ditros like Red Hat better look in the Ubuntu repositories if you can find the package there...if not you can use the alien command to convert the package: http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/alien.1.html