Category:Hard drive Installation

The main strength of Knoppix is its ability to be run from memory as a Live Linux CD. The advantage to this is that you can take the CD with you. However, some users have worked out how to install Knoppix on a hard drive .

In the meantime you can do a harddrive installation with 'Preferences/ KNOPPIX HD installation' from the Knoppix CD/DVD. It is a Debian-like installation in a free partiton with GRUB as bootmenu.

Some people select 'Preferences/ Install KNOPPIX to flash disk' and do the installation not only on an flash device but also on a partiton of a harddrive and call it "poor man harddrive installation". This installation uses Syslinx to boot with compressed KNOPPIX and fidles around with persistent memory to preserve any changes.

If you decide to install Knoppix to harddrive, please read HD_Install_Warning_not_to_do_it first.

If all you want to do is free up your CD drive, save data, make configuration and customisations, install new software packages, and have all these changes available from session to session, consider these Live CD Tips before resorting to a hard disk install.

Now you also may want to look at some of these (very old) Hard drive Installation pages.