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Topic: Messed up my frugal install

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NewDude

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Posted: Feb. 18 2006,04:40

I had a frugal install on my HD. Everything worked great until I was goofing off trying different things.

I right clicked on the desktop to bring the popup menu and I did the "Install to Harddrive"... I thought it would be more of a real install, so I clicked it and went through the stuff, on reboot it brought to a "Limited Shell" with Limit commands...

My command prompt says: KNOPPIX:

It won't go any farther. I can still boot to the LIVE CD though.

How can I fix this? I guess the "HD INSTALL" deleted my KNOPPIX on the HD. Can I just copy the KNOPPIX from the CD back to the hd (HDA2)? and it should reboot with the CD fine right?

My next question is: Before I did this last night, I was installing packages. I installed SAMBA and couple others, when I went to reboot, I got a messagebox saying something about your ramdisk and do you want to save your ramdisk?

I noticed on reboot my SAMBA and other programs weren't installed anymore. How do I make them really install?

NewDude

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Posted: Feb. 18 2006,05:41

Once again, sorry for question stupid questions.

I booted to the LIVE CD once again. I did the install to hd, not the frugal. It worked this time because I did the etc3, it said not recommended for slow systems, I figured my P166mhz was a slower system, but I answered yes this time and the scripted worked excellent.

I am glad I messed up my frugal in the first place. Looks like this real install was what I was looking for anything. It is more secure because I had to setup user passwords.

Sorry to bug you guys...

starcannon Offline

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Posted: Feb. 22 2006,01:54

Could have just rerun your frugal install as well. Provide you keep your persistent /opt and /home directories on a seperate partition from the disc image then all you'd need to do is reinstall the disk image and update LiLo or Grub.

In the end though shounds like you got it up and runnin.
Rob

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