Hello again, sometimes time runs faster than ever - and you simply must put some things aside - but here comes my observations from behavior of sfs files and full HD installed puppies. I think legendofthors feedback was very interesting - different ways - same target - same result, and yes, my terminal experience could be better, I am what you might call a "becoming ex-ubuntuer looking for something funnier and seem to have", if you understand...
I would like to know, if your sfs file was mounted.
You wrote, that you added it to the bootmanager.
Yes the sfs file "was mounted", eg. via the boot manager (after the first copy attempts I was unable to determine the status of the sfs mounting since the copy command after all did some copying...). The only disturbance noticed from this before the copy operation was that Xorg was unable to start with the correct typed xwin command. After I gathered your input here I decided to give the "copy-in-running-state" another shot, so I tried again, but that was negative.
An attempt to run Martin's copy command copy while running from CD instead gave the following:
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# cp -ax /mnt/+mnt+hda1+KDE358_301.sfs/* /mnt/hda1/
cp: cannot create special file `/mnt/hda1/lib/udev/devices/fd0': File exists
cp: cannot create fifo `/mnt/hda1/lib/udev/devices/initctl': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/mnt/hda1/lib/udev/devices/null': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/mnt/hda1/lib/udev/devices/ppp': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/mnt/hda1/lib/udev/devices/sda1': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/mnt/hda1/lib/udev/devices/sda2': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/mnt/hda1/lib/udev/devices/sda3': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/mnt/hda1/lib/udev/devices/sda4': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/mnt/hda1/lib/udev/devices/sdb1': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/mnt/hda1/lib/udev/devices/sr0': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/mnt/hda1/lib/udev/devices/zero': File exists
Conclusion from this is that the copy command works fine, but do not try to run it from whitin your environment. The "cannot creat" indicators above shows that the "copy-in-running-state" method crashed quite early.
After this quite successful experiment I was able to start KDE with xwin, but my system was unstable due to the initial messing around.
Now we come to the state where I deleted and reinstalled the entire system again, so first on with a fresh full HD install of Fat-free, then I copied the SFS file to \ in order to be able to test what happens with the boot manager mounting behaviour. And no, the sfs file certainly doesn't mount at all on a full HD install, so with this validation I unmounted it, rebooted and went over to the CD boot again, mounted the sfs by clicking on it, and ran Martins cp command slightly modified, like this:
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# cp -ax /mnt/+mnt+hda1+KDE358_301.sfs/* /mnt/hda1/
This is because I am running OS outside the file structure I am copying to, of course. So, ctrl-alt-backspace and xwin startkde again, and yes, it's working.
A few oddities though; when I tried to reboot from KDE, I wasn't able to, initially I just got a behavior similar to restart of KDE or something, I was forced to do a "kill with HW button" shutdown, after that it reboots and shuts down as expected. Some more oddities; there is a lot of apps and things gathered under "lost and found" in the menu, but the control center for instance, is empty. I feel that this indicates that something isn't quite right, but what the heck, it runs like some-sort-of-fast-I-don't-know-really... I might try a frugal install just to see what happens.
I hope that this give you some feedback Martin, and It feels like this is a sligthtly simpler method than legendofthors described earlier (though I haven't tried it).