On Tuesday 05 August 2003 16:25, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tuesday 05 August 2003 14:28, Geoff Thurman wrote: > [...now irrelevant context snipped...] > > > I'm a newbie, and this might in any case be too late to help, but > > the best instructions for installing Knoppix to hdd are probably > > those on www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/debian-knoppix.html. They made > > sense to me, and the way I feel at the moment that might be > > saying something. > > Okay. Try anything once. I don't know why the instructions on the > disk said there was no install script. True, it is fairly basic, > and insists on a single partition for root and everything... If it > works, well and good. I've repartitioned and it has started > copying. I'll let you know.
Update: Flawless. It installs and boots. A few configurations in /etc/hosts and so forth and the networking is alive. I HAVE A WORKING DEBIAN! Sorry to shout, but -- well -- it took a while. A thousand thanks to everyone who helped. Even the ideas that didn't pan out were very informative. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
