2019-09-05T20:58:06+02:00 Christian Lorandi urn:md5:420041d3af3b66a087b22e9b14e3eb83 Dotclear urn:md5:b10b9d402f04230f67c30513cb8af469 2013-12-20T18:00:00+01:00 2013-12-20T18:00:00+01:00 Christian Lorandi How-To installation tutorial <p>Dear PixieLive4 users, since some of you wanted to install PixieLive4 on their NetBooks HDD as "normal" (i.e. non live) distro, here is the quick and dirty guide.</p> <p>It's pretty straight forward, it can be summarized as:</p> <ul> <li>prepare an HDD partition</li> <li>extract the lzm modules</li> <li>remove pixielive scripts</li> <li>create missing directories</li> <li>copy /dev</li> <li>create an /etc/fstab</li> <li>install and configure grub (the bootloader)</li> <li>reboot and have fun!</li> </ul> <p>This guide is not for newbies, i will not explain every command in the details, it would take too much time and you could damage your system if you don't know what you are doing.</p> <p>For the commands you don't know "man", "gentoo wiki" and "google" are your friends.</p> <p>I cannot guarantee everything is done in the best way here, it worked on my computer so it should on your.</p> <pre></pre> <p>Let's get started:</ p> <ul> <li><strong>backup all of your documents</strong></li> <li><strong>backup your windows partition if you think you will need it in future</strong></li> <li><strong>make sure you have a backup of all your documents and software</strong></li> <li><strong>double check you have a backup of all your documents and software (on a different disk)</strong></li> </ul> <ul> <li>boot PixieLive4 as usual</li> <li>Prepare an empty partition on your disk, at least 10GB (you can use fdisk or gparted)</li> <li>open a terminal window and become root <ul> <li><code>su</code></li> </ul></li> <li>format the partition you created as ext3 (ext4 won't boot with grub-1) <ul> <li><code>mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdaX #where X is the partition number</code></li> </ul></li> <li>prepare the mount directory <ul> <li><code>mkdir /gentoohdd</code></li> </ul></li> <li>mount the partition in the directory (<strong>replace the X with your partition number</strong>) <ul> <li><code>mount /dev/sdaX /gentoohdd</code></li> </ ul></li> <li>recursively copy the content of every module on the partition (notice the / after $i, it's important). It will take a looong time <ul> <li><code>for i in /mnt/live/memory/bundles/*; do rsync -a "$i/" /gentoohdd; done</code></li> </ul></li> <li>copy the /dev directory <ul> <li><code>cp -a /dev /gentoohdd</code></li> </ul></li> <li>create the some missing directories: <ul> <li><code>mkdir /gentoohdd/sys</code></li> <li><code>mkdir /gentoohdd/proc</code></li> <li><code>mkdir /gentoohdd/run</code></li> <li><code>mkdir /gentoohdd/tmp</code></li> <li><code>mkdir /gentoohdd/mnt</code></li> <li><code>mkdir /gentoohdd/media</code></li> </ul></li> <li>create the fstab file (<strong>replace the X with your partition number</strong>) <ul> <li><code>echo "/dev/sdaX / ext3 noatime 0 1" &gt; /gentoohdd/etc/fstab</code></li> </ul></li> <li>install grub <ul> <li><code>grub-install --root-directory=/gentoohdd /dev/sda</code></li> </ul></li> <li>copy the kernel in place <ul> n<li><code>cp /mnt/live/memory/data/PixieLive4/boot/vmlinuz /gentoohdd/boot</code></li> </ul></li> <li>create a grub menu configuration (<strong>replace the Y with your partition number in the grub way, usually Y=X-1</strong>) <ul> <li><code>nano /gentoohdd/boot/grub/menu.lst</code> <ul> <li><code>##############################</code></li> <li><code>default 0</code></li> <li><code>timeout 5</code></li> <li><code></code></li> <li><code>title PixieLive4-HDD</code></li> <li><code>root (hd0,Y) # usually Y = X-1</code></li> <li><code>kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdaX</code></li> <li><code></code></li> <li><code># you don't need this part if you don't have Windows installed</code></li> <li><code>title Windows</code></li> <li><code>rootnoverify (hd0,0) # assuming windows is on the first partition of the first disk</code></li> <li><code>makeactive</code></li> <li><code>chainloader +1</code></li> <li><code>##############################</code></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li>remove unneeded pixielive init scripts <ul> <li><code>rm /gentoohdd/etc/init.d/pixielive*</code></li> <li><code>rm /gentoohdd/etc/conf.d/pixielive*</code></li> <li><code>rm /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/default/pixielive*</code></li> <li><code>rm /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/boot/pixielive*</code></li> <li><code>rm /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/shutdown/*</code></li> </ul></li> <li>rebuild the shutdown runlevel <ul> <li><code>ln -s /etc/init.d/killprocs /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/shutdown</code></li> <li><code>ln -s /etc/init.d/mount-ro /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/shutdown</code></li> <li><code>ln -s /etc/init.d/savecache /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/shutdown</code></li> </ul></li> <li>copy the xorg.conf <ul> <li><code>cp -a /etc/X11/xorg.conf /gentoohdd/etc/X11</code></li> </ul></li> <li>unmount the gentoohdd partition <ul> <li><code>umount /gentoohdd</code></li> </ul></li> <li>reboot from the hdd</li> </ul>