[Quantian-general] Install of Quantian 0.7.9.2 on a hd with no dvd drive

[Krishna Kumar]

For anyone else trying to do this thanks to a tip from Harvey Friedman
/----------------------------------------------
snipped>>>>
You have a cd of knoppix 4.0.2 which 0.7.9.2 was based on.  If you  
don't have it yet, download it and burn to CD but burn the iso image
so that several files result; DO NOT  just copy the iso image as a  
single file to CD  Now, reboot your machine with the knoppix cd in it. W 
hen prompt
comes up, give command
KNOPPIX BOOTFROM=/dev/hda3/Q*.iso lang=us
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 I have a dell box at home and all combination of cheatcodes didnot help 
boot the Quantian so I have gone back to an earlier version of knoppix
and installed the packages. If anyone has better luck installing the 
latest and greatest release of Quantian on a *dell* box I would be eager 
to hear.

Thanks,
Kris



Krishna Kumar wrote:
> Hi there, I am looking for a painless way of installing the latest 
> kitchen-sink version of quantian.
> I have managed to get down the 2+gig iso image. But I don't have a dvd 
> drive on the box but only a CD-RW drive.
>
> So I have read this document 
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/howto_hdinstall.html
> which gives one way of installing using a floppy drive.
>
> If I have to use only the cd-rw would the steps simply be to change 
> section-7 of the document?
> sample lilo.conf file for booting "k.s.Q."
>
> -----------------------
> boot = /dev/fd0
>
> install = boot.b
> map = map
> vga=791
> lba32
> delay=20
> prompt
> timeout=150
> append="hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi
> hdg=scsi hdh=scsi apm=power-off nomce"
> default=Quantian
> image=/mnt/hda3/what/boot/isolinux/linux24
> label=Quantian
> initrd=/mnt/hda3/what/boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz
> read-only
> root = /dev/hda3
> Don't forget to run /sbin/lilo  -C /mnt/floppy/lilo.conf  !!!
>
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>
> Supposing my cd-rw is hdc then would I simply have to change the boot to,
> boot=/dev/hdc1
>
> Appreciate your help and pointers
>
> Thanks Kris
>
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