Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Kohlbach Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Knoppix 4 (Quantian .7) Can't find Filesystem Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:35:30 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 61 Message-ID: <878rh06l4d.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> References: <877cwl8cip.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="4612c998e36d3bf84982eeac4315352d"; logging-data="2764303"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+BeZv++kvD0K5zs+JMY0SS" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TrmKWkhm05V0tDRRNhhD1CAeh0U= sha1:LUmit8sQ6WeFlmckRWL62+pTyOc= X-No-Archive: Yes Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37048 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