Knoppix/Win XP Sp2: Dual Boot

[TiziteLayinLow]

I would like to dual boot these OS. The issue is I want captive ntfs to read/write to my win partition.. i realize knoppix is supposed to be cd bootable and blah blah, but i want it on teh hd for access time and to free up my cdrw.

i ran the tool in knoppix to copy it to the hd. but when tried to mod the paritions to get it to work it has a permission error, probably because the drive isnt mounted ntfs, then i read that with sp2 it blocks knoppix captive ntfs.

any ideas?

 

[bersl2]

I found this on Gentoo-Wiki, but it should work for a hard drive installation of Knoppix too.

I believe that for SP2 systems, the installer cannot find the files. Likewise, for me the download failed to satisfy the installer "(blah).exe is not searchable; it is not a directory" - If this happens, mount your NTFS partition somewhere as read only. (mount /dev/hdaX /mnt/winxp {where X is the appropriate number}). Build an slocate database (or use find), and (slocate ntfs.sys). The drivers should all be in a directory like /mnt/winxp/windows/system32/drivers, while ntoskrnl.exe is in system32. Do this for all the files it needs, and copy them to /var/lib/captive. The installer will say that it has failed, and then that it has succeeded. Don't worry - captive'll work!

 

[TiziteLayinLow]

ill give that a shot - ill just grab the ntfs drivers off of a xp machine that only has sp1 on it. anyone have a list of the files it needs?

does anyone know is there is a way to get this accomplished and rebuild the knoppix disc so that right apon boot up you can remount the hda as write permissions?

does anyone know if fedora core 3 already has the ability to read/write ntfs?

your help is appreciated,
tizitelayinlow

 

[imported_Stew]

why not format it to a Linux-formatted partition instead of messing around with ntfs compatibility?

 

[Pabster]

Yeah leave the NTFS read-only.

 

[nweaver]

Fedora Core does not have NTFS stuff in it's kernel (last time I checked, anyway)

Use a real linux distro on a linux partition for this.

 

[TiziteLayinLow]

are you implying that knoppix isnt a real dist? we actually are mandated to use alot of knoppix stuff for work on workstations that run win to communicate to the linux servers therefore i want something i am familar with the menus and gui.

its mainly just to play with - plus knoppix already has the tools that i need, airsnort, ethereal, nessus and can install numerous other tools that i need like fping.

when i run the knoppix command to copy it to the hard drive it opens a partition manager and then i cannot adjust the parition because im sure of ntfs permissions. this is why i want to use captive ntfs.

if there is another work around to get it to install, i will take another method.

thanks for the replies,
tizitelayinlow

 

[nweaver]

put another drive in.

I would say that Knoppix isn't a decent installed distro, it has a decent liveCD. Install Ubuntu, or kbuntu. Not sure what display it runs (KDE vs Gnome) but if you use a distro that uses the same, it should be close. apt-get or emerge makes setting up applications a snap. You could find a small hard drive (10gb) and install it on there. You might have to tweak boot settings some.

 

[Nothinman]

I would say that Knoppix isn't a decent installed distro, it has a decent liveCD.

I can't say I've ever installed it myself, but why not? It's Debian sid with a few extra apps added in, it'll probably be almost the same as Kubuntu install.

 

[RVN]

How about trying Linspire ...it's free check out Slick Deals for an installable version or tryout Linspire Live bootable.