[Quantian-general] HDD install

[Robert W. Hayden]

I do not know if this has anything to do with the most recent post,
but for folks trying to debug a failed install...

First, for anyone as green as I was last week, the How To is for
unusual circumstances (I think).  In any case, the much easier route
(if it works) is to simply type knoppix-installer at a command
prompt.  This did not work on a totally blank disk so I set up a
partition table (and partitions) with System Commander 2000.

Using knoppix-installer I did a HDD install of Quantian (based on
Knoppix 4) and subsequently a HDD install of Knoppix 5 on another
partition on the same machine (and HDD).  In both cases the
knoppix-installer script created a defective fstab.  In the case of
Knoppix 5, it was so defective that would not boot.  It complained of
a corrupt file system.  Not surprising when fstab had a section for a
non-existent partition on the HDD!-( Also, on the same box, one
installation found a CD-ROM.  The other found two CD-ROMs and a DVD
(as three different devices).  What is actually present is a single
Panasonic DVD-RAM drive which also handles CDs and DVDs.  The Quantian
install did NOT find a Windows primary (but non-bootable) data
partition which I intended to be accessible to all the OSs.  I think
this is what led me to look at fstab and find errors there, and so
naturally I looked there on the Knoppix 5 side when that did not boot.

Anyway, it doth appear that the Knoppix installers can create sick
fstabs and I post this because the resulting symptoms do not make it
obvious that this is the problem.

Both OSs are now running fine and thanks for saving me the trouble of
finding and installing all these math. and stats. packages!-)  

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