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Posted: May 11 2005,11:23 QUOTE

My preference is to resize your existing partition (hda1) down to a smaller size like 100MB and use it for the poorman's install.

Sometimes a poorman's install will not work if the knoppix file is stored in a higher numbered partition. The risk of deleting everything and starting over is if you make a mistake, then you have no OS to boot into and need to dig out Tom's root boot disk or a DOS disk and start over.

Yes

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DSL is not upgradable via apt-get.  If you do a dist-upgrade, it will break your installation mainly because the standard Debian distribution uses the XFree86 Xwindows system and DSL does not.

The advantage of a frugal or poorman's install is that you can upgrade your entire system merely by replacing the /knoppix/knoppix file with the latest version.
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Posted: May 11 2005,15:54 QUOTE

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The advantage of a frugal or poorman's install is that you can upgrade your entire system merely by replacing the /knoppix/knoppix file with the latest version.


But can you do it without a CD burner?  Since the "update" is an .iso file, you can't copy the new /knoppix/ directory unless it's been burned to a CD, right?  Or is there a way to open the .iso file?

I've heard of "iso buster" but never used it before, is there a Linux open source equivalent?

Thanks
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Posted: May 11 2005,23:48 QUOTE

Yes, you can mount the iso file from within Linux.

For example:

sudo su
mkdir /home/dsl/image
mount -t iso9660 -o loop /home/dsl/dsl-1.1.iso /home/dsl/image
emelfm &
exit
exit

Then use emelfm to copy the knoppix file over from the /home/dsl/image subdirectory to a place somewhere else on your hard drive.

When finished, you can unmount it with:

sudo su
umount /home/dsl/image
exit
exit
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Posted: May 12 2005,00:25 QUOTE

Thanks Cbagger!!

I need to print out this thread and think it through a little bit, but sounds very do-able and not very hard.  Cool.  When I'm done I'll have a fully dedicated DSL machine... way cool...

Thanks again,

Paul
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Posted: May 14 2005,18:47 QUOTE

If you still have win95(or 98) installed, you can do the following:

-Download the iso file of DSL
-Create a new folder called KNOPPIX in C:(You have to enable an option in windows that allow names in capital letters, I don´t know how and where is this option in English, because I´m Brazilian)
-Download  ISOBUSTER, here a link http://www.isobusterdownload.org/isobuster_all_lang.zip
-Download the file loadlin.exe, here a link ftp://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/pub....exe.gz, extract loadlin.exe to C:\KNOPPIX
-Execute ISOBUSTER, open the iso file(DSL) and extract all to C:\KNOPPIX
-Create a new file called LINUX.BAT in C:\KNOPPIX

LINUX.BAT
=cut here==================================================
CD\KNOPPIX
loadlin.exe linux24 initrd=minirt24.gz APPEND lang=us ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init apm=power-off vga=791 nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix KNOPPIX mousewheel
=cut here==================================================

the above command must all in the same line
-After you extract the iso file to C:\KNOPPIX, there is a folder called boot(C:\KNOPPIX\boot), copy all that is inside the folder boot to C:\KNOPPIX
-Make a boot floppy disk for win95(can be win98 too)
-Boot with this floppy disk and go to C:\KNOPPIX
Ex.
C:
CD KNOPPIX
-Execute loadlin
Ex.
loadlin.exe
-Now it will boot like if you were booting from the Live-CD
-Make a new partition for Linux and format it and install DSL in this partition

PS. Sorry if it is a bit confusing, but as I said before, I´m Brazilian and I´m not fluent in English
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