[Quantian-general] Re: vmplayer quantian knx2hd trouble

[jack byers]

 my problem with knx2hd was evidently the absence of a swap partition
or more accurately
 either that or memory increased from recommended 256m to 512m
i went the 512m mem route;
then knx2d proceeded, almost all like the quantian-vmplayerhowto.

This howto covered all the points on getting
the  Quantianiso installed as guest under my host fc5
( I made some additional really dumb mistakes that i wont detail here
  or else i would have been up in one day instead of many)


For people like me especially, ie new to debian-knoppix-quantian
and also new to vmware,
it would help if the howto were cleaned up on a few points:
--discrepancy between Quantian.vmdk in the qemu-img cmd,
   vs QuantianIDE1.vmdk in the Quantian.vmx
--instructions re needing to use cfdisk to partition a swap also,
     or instead increase the memory from recommended 256M to 512M
--for me with linux fc5 as host, the hdc didnt change to hdc1
after the mke2fs cmd, so cant mount hdc1 just by clicking.
  But this is trivial, using standard linux procedures  mkdir /mnt/hdc1,...

--upon logging out of Quantian and quiting vmplayer,
there was a voluminous screen of info in very very tiny print
mostly illegible.
i think it was pausing at end telling me to disconect cdrom and hit return
.. so i tried doing that, not sure if what i did was proper
But the restart of vmplayer etc worked just as advertised.
I also, like Simon, had to reconfigure networkcard, trivial.
All told, very complete, amazing to me as rank newbie.

What I would really find more useful  is more guidance on how to
use the Quantian now that it is installed and running.
I know i need to read more about vmplayer and how guest os's work in general
but a few pointers here in this howto would be very useful

How do we retain the system  upon loggingout/shuttingdown/rebooting?
--do we also need to "create persistent knoppix ...  " in order to save
files
from reboot to reboot?
-- how about the save config?

some comments re comparing this vmplayer method
 to the lilogrub method of booting the iso would also be very helpful
 My own experience with the lilogrub method
found that a lot easier than this vmplayer method,
and the diskspace requirements are much less.

regards,
Jack
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