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Sparken

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Posted: Jan. 22 2008,04:24

I tried dd'ing the floppy image, that failed me for some reason, I will try
experimenting with GRUB in the manner you described and see what happens.

Thank you.

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Posted: Jan. 22 2008,04:34

Here's the "easiest" way I can think of:

Is there a problem on that hard drive? If not, I'd just suggest for you to install a frugal and run it off there.

If there is a problem, you could still do the above... but copy the KNOPPIX file to your usb drive (and delete the one off your hard drive - might need to boot with fromusb and/or waitusb). Note that the booting files will be on your hard drive still. Essentially, this way will end up with a setup like what curaga described.

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Posted: Jan. 22 2008,16:32

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Is there a problem on that hard drive? If not, I'd just suggest for you to install a frugal and run it off there.

I originally was going to suggest the same thing, only set /home on the USB stick since there would be nothing to worry about with the frugal install on the hard drive. That would boot a lot faster, too.

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Posted: Jan. 22 2008,16:59

But having KNOPPIX on the hd would still allow the box to be booted, which he doesn't seem to want.

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Posted: Feb. 05 2008,07:17

Finally getting back to this and answer some questions.

The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 3500. Essentially a PII-400 with 196MB RAM.
The hard drive has an intermittent glitch that causes the system to
lock up. Reason 1 to avoid doing anything but booting from it.
But otherwise, this thing is a great knockabout laptop, runs great
with DSL and if it gets bashed or stolen, I won't cry too much.

I have done a frugal on this drive in the past and it will read my
backup file from the stick which would be enough to satisfy most folks.

I have several USB sticks that I boot from with various versions of DSL
and I've noticed that some of them behave abnormally with the latest version
of the DSL Knoppix image. Reason 2 why I don't want to be fixed to the
Knoppix on the drive.

My aim is to setup the drive so that any bootable stick will be recognized.
Also, I have been using Linux for over 10 years and I am ashamed at how
poorly I understand the boot process and GRUB. So I hope to learn.
I figure if anyone is going to know how to do this kind of thing, it is you guys.

I have done a Frugal install, then deleted the Knoppix image. It got further
than I imagined. It posted "Finding USB devices" then the next line
"Could not find Knoppix..." "dropping to a shell..." etc.

I am going to play with GRUB a bit more and get back this week with results.

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