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10-16-2004, 08:01 PM
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 That's the first time I've seen Linux turned to "evil" purposes but I supposed it would happen sooner or later.  | |
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10-16-2004, 08:04 PM
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10-16-2004, 08:07 PM
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10-16-2004, 09:04 PM
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| Hey Froach, I seem to remember you saying you could install Knoppix on a hard drive, Care to enlightem me? I bought half a dozen old hd's at a garage sale and have a dongle hanging out of my test rig case so I thought why not? |
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10-16-2004, 09:12 PM
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10-16-2004, 09:35 PM
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10-16-2004, 09:52 PM
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| I also was amased at all the goodies in an OS that isn't installed! Burn CDs, watch movies, get online! Pretty neat features...
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10-17-2004, 12:40 PM
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10-17-2004, 08:30 PM
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| ok, I just recovered from a mini linux disaster *I put a second HD on IDE2 as master, I then set it as the boot HD in bios *booted into Knoppix, *set permissions for the new drive *did a HD install by opening a terminal window and running [sudo knoppixx-installer]... **I made the error of selecting [mbr] for the location of the boot prog and hosed things badly..... Even though I hadn't allowed permissions on my windows drive, it hid my program partition as well as my data partition ( both on my windows drive)and completely hoses the mbr as well... I had to use the knoppix floppy disk ( made during the install) to start the computer.... the cd rom drive would no longer open at all (even when in the bios setup)....so... I throw in a ghost floppy and restore my C; drive.... no go... still the same. I had to hook another cdrom up on the IDE2 cable and reinstall winows from it..Then I restored my image (funny ghost could see my data drive but windows couldn't) Windows worked but still couldn't see the other 2 partitions, I had to unhide them with partition magic.. Anyways, all is back to normal and I may try it again withought my windows drive plugged in! |
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10-17-2004, 09:22 PM
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| Wow, that's pretty scary! Earlier Linux kernels didn't recognize SATA drives so I never had that problem (my Windows is on a SATA RAID 0 and I was installing Linux onto a third IDE drive). So it couldn't install to SATA even if I wanted it to. However recent kernels can recognize SATA (but not SATA-RAID) and have wanted to install to ONE of the SATA drives, which would quite nicely break the array and all my Windows data, so I have to be careful... |
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10-18-2004, 01:15 AM
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Thats the joy of having 5 computers running in the house.... redundancy! To a point that is.... I also have backups of important stuff on dvds (aren't they just the cats *****?) | |
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10-18-2004, 01:27 AM
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| 3 of 7, That is why I always install separate OSes separately (one drive at a time). I remove the master jumper and make it a slave, then hook up both drives. I can always either go to the BIOS and select the HD to boot from or I can create a Linux boot floppy and boot from that, that way the HD0 MBR is never touched. Does Knoppix use LILO or GRUB? LILO usually has problems with W2K and WXP. My Slackware even warns me about it. Which is why I only consider distros with GRUB since it plays nicer with NTFS. The only problem then is if you run a program within WXP which changes the MBR (like Norton, Mcafee, et. al.). That's when the Linux boot floppy comes in handy. But the easiest way is to disconnect the WXP disc, install a new disk as Master, install the OS, change it to Slave, reconnect WXP as Master, and use the BIOS to boot. |
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10-18-2004, 01:35 AM
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