User Feedback :: Boot CD from ms-dos (like distro's with dosutils)



Ok, this is the situation:

I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDT Laptop, BUT... Only with CD-Rom (no floppy)!

So... I moved the harddrive to another laptop with floppy to install ms-dos on a 50mb "rescue partition" and also drivers for the CD-Rom (the damn thing does'nt even auto-boots, so you need drivers to get it spinning from ms-dos :p )!!!

I wonder if there's any way to boot DSL from ms-dos? I tried another linux-distro called Best-Linux 2000 (whoa, that's slooow ??? ), and it has a "dosutils" folder on the cd containing one file called "autorun.bat"!!!

With that file you could actually boot the cd from within dos  :O !!!

Is there any way to boot the DSL-cd from within ms-dos, or perhaps another very low-resource GUI-linux that can do this???
It probably used loadlin.

There's some other install methods that you could try if you can change your bootloader.
assuming d: is your cdrom, and you have loadlin.exe in your path,

rem BOOT.BAT
d:
cd \boot\isolinux
loadlin linux24 initrd=minirt24.gz dsl dma restore=hda1 mydsl=hda1 vga=791

and maybe fromhd=/dev/scd1 if it doesn't find the /KNOPPIX directory on you cdrom.

more tips here;
http://petepr.hopto.org/dsl/guides.html
Coming back to a pretty old question (i just did'nt want to mess with this then)!

I got some error message about it could not find knoppix filesystem  ??? !

EDIT: Yes, I saw the extra "fromhd"-line but:
1) should I just add this to the previous line
2) what should I write instead of "/dev/scd1" if I boot from an usb-drive (d:)???
I used this guide in the wiki-pages to start the install using loadlin, and just executed the command "loadlin @options.txt", but I just get an error-message:

Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
Press reset button to quit.

PLZ help  :( !
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