[Quantian-general] Quantian 0.7.9.1 hard disk install

[Anne York]

There were questions after my previous emails about 
installling the new quantian to the hard disk. Here is a 
mini how-to that assumes some familiarity with Linux.

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These instructions assume that you were somehow able to get 
the iso image copied to your hard drive, eg, using k3b or 
directly downloaded to your hard drive-- keep track of the 
partition where the iso is copied. On our system this is 
/dev/hda4

1. get a Knoppix 4.0.2 live CD -- this is the version of 
Knoppix that Quantian 0.7.9.1 is based on.

2. Insert this in your cd drive a reboot the computer. We 
use the options
"knoppix lang=US  bootfrom=/dev/hda4/q*.iso" and 
Quantian will be running. (Use whatever language you prefer 
and change the bootfrom to the partition where your iso is 
located.)

3  Now that Quantian is running, "knoppix-istaller" can now 
be run to install Quantian to your hard drive on a partition 
of at least 8gb.

4. Even though Quantian was installed, the master boot 
record was not updated correctly and we were not able to 
boot Quantian on a cold machine. There are several ways to 
solve this problem. We used method a.

 	a. if you have a 3-4 gb free partition, you can 
install knoppix 3.6 there.  (yes 3.6).  This version of 
Knoppix uses lilo as default bootloader instead of grub. 
Reboot and choose knoppix 3.6 from lilo. Edit the 
lilo.config file to add booting from the Quantian image (on 
the 8gb partition where it was installed). Run lilo as root 
and reboot and you should now be able to choose Quantian at 
booting.

 	b. This should work but we have not actually tried 
it. While doing step 3, running the knoppix installer, after 
the configuration step and before the installation step, 
stop and save the configuration.  Then edit the .knofig file 
which contains the configuration info, making the changes to 
let grub pick the right image or making lilo your default 
bootloader.

 	c. This should also work, but not tested. After 
installing Quantian and not being able to boot, boot a 
knoppix 3.6 cd, run "sudo chroot /dev/quantian.partition 
bash"  THere will be a lot of junk on screen hit ctrl-C and 
get a command prompt.  Issue "mount -o remount,rw /".  Now 
we are running Quantian again. Fix the bootloader that you 
want and proceed as above.

Good luck. We didn't test b and c because there wasn't an 
extra big partition on the hard drive and we didn't want to 
mess up the successful installation and mbr using method a. 
I have real work to do.