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I have been 'playing' around with Knoppix for some time. I am at a point where I would like to try to install it to my current system. I am married (happily) and want to keep the M$ OS for my wife. What I would like to have happen is after I turn the PC on, a screen comes up asking my wife to select her preferred OS. THe problem I am running into is that I have been unable to find a step by step guide on how to install Knoppix to do this.
The program tha tI think will serve me best is called GAG42 (rawrite2). I am planning to use partition magic 8 to partition the drive and then install Knoppix. I have tried this 3 times. First time I reformatted because I didn't do my research on how to repair (should tell you my level of newbieism).
Can anyone maybe guide me through this process. I know how to install of the KNoppix disk and I am pretty sure the GAG42 will allow me to choose my OS. I am not familiar with Bootloaders beyoned knowing where they are and how to edit them.
if you've got partition magic you should also have boot magic, use that as your boot loader. resize you win partition, then create a swap(size=2xram) and ext2fs partion with partmagic. reboot with knoppix in the drive and at the knoppix boot prompt type knoppix lang=us 2, that will drop you to the root prompt then type knx-hdinstall, once done reboot to windows,launch bootmagic setup and add knoppix.
I was able to do it quite easily. I just had to use partition magic and NOT install a new OS. I just created the swap partition and the Install partition. I used the GAG42 program and it was awesome. Thanks to Leo Laporte for recommending it. THanks for all your help people. As Linux becomes more *lazy* people friendly, a lot more people will make the switch. I for one, am going to learn as much as possible about the Linux movement.
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