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Re: Knoppix 4 (Quantian .7) Can't find Filesystem

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On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:27:20 -0500, 25B.R867 wrote:
>
> On 2/13/23 4:46 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>
>> Sounds vaguely familiar. Did this happen on the first boot after the
>> installation or still the installation process itself?
>> Must have been +15 years (between 2006 and 2008 I seem to recall)
>> when I
>> ran into that, installing from CD ROM. Before the days of ATA and UEFI.
>> I seem to recall the problem was that Knoppix insisted to partition
>> the
>> installation media! It stalled when it couldn't (well it's a CD ROM) and
>> no key would abort it. May be my mistake because I didn't chose which
>> disks to partition (because Knoppix should be smart enough not to try to
>> partition the boot media).
>> After several attempts I noticed the CD ROM LED came on when it came
>> to
>> partition stuff, so I assumed there is the problem. Because it was
>> mounted you couldn't just eject it.
>> Next installation attempt just before being prompted to partition I
>> used
>> a pin to unblock the locking of the CD/DVD drive and yanked it open. And
>> now partition worked!
>> After that I ran into an error ("Missing boot media" or similar. So
>> I
>> inserted the CD again but Knoppix wouldn't try to mount it (not its
>> fault). Luckily at that time TTYs were available. I recalled where the CD
>> was mounted on and a "sudo mount /where/ever/" would mount it and then
>> finish the installation, yielding in a fully functioning Linux
>> installation.
>> But what a PITA!
>> If this was a bug in Knoppix, try a newer version to see if your
>> older
>> hardware is supported. Or try something else (Ubuntu, MINT...).
>
>   I do remember some of those old Knoppix versions that
>   completely intended to OWN the entire machine. Seems
>   evil - but Knoppix was never really intended to be
>   "installed" per-se - it's supposed to be on a bootable
>   thumb or CD and be THE system.

I don't consider Knoppix as evil. Was just a bug in my opinion. Or even
my fault.

>   Knoppix is actually a pretty good Linux distro - has
>   most of the bells and whistles you'd want. However
>   these days there are a LOT of those and most work and
>   play well with others.

Yep, never used it again after 2007 or so. Went from there to Ubuntu and
back to Debian.

The new machine has MINT by accident. I accidentally installed it,
because it happened to be on my USB stick I use as rescue ring. Under the
hood it feels a lot like Debian (because it is Debian :-), that I only
realized days later I am running MINT.

"Made" Debian out of it since (basically by modifying the
sources.list). Am very quite with it.
-- 
Andreas

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Knoppix 4 (Quantian .7) Can't find Filesystem vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - 2023-02-13 21:08 +0000
  Re: Knoppix 4 (Quantian .7) Can't find Filesystem Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-13 16:46 -0500
    Re: Knoppix 4 (Quantian .7) Can't find Filesystem "25B.R867" <25B.R867@noaaada.net> - 2023-02-14 00:27 -0500
      Re: Knoppix 4 (Quantian .7) Can't find Filesystem Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-14 15:35 -0500
        Re: Knoppix 4 (Quantian .7) Can't find Filesystem "25B.R867" <25B.R867@noaaada.net> - 2023-02-15 01:13 -0500
          Converting from U back to Deb (Was: Knoppix 4 (Quantian .7) Can't find Filesystem) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-02-15 19:48 +0000
            Re: Converting from U back to Deb (Was: Knoppix 4 (Quantian .7) Can't find Filesystem) "25B.R867" <25B.R867@noaaada.net> - 2023-02-16 02:00 -0500
              Re: Converting from U back to Deb not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-02-17 07:25 +1000
                Re: Converting from U back to Deb "25B.R866" <25B.R866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-17 23:27 -0500
        Re: Knoppix 4 (Quantian .7) Can't find Filesystem vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - 2023-02-15 21:59 +0000

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