User Feedback :: Loading DSL on a laptop with 2 gig

Hey,
I got it to go a little farther.

After doing "dsl fromcd"

It said "loading linux24" and all that.

then It went to where there is a little penguin up in the far top left corner and it says:
"welcome to DSL"
built using knoppix Technology.

Dsl comes with no warranty, to the...BLA BLA BLA!

then it says in red letters:

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

then in regular white lettering:

Additional builtin commands available:
cat mount umount
insmod rmmod lsmod
Knoppix#

thats all.....

....I guess the reason that I never got that far is i had a bad floppy...
also i downloaded a DOS boot disk.. with that it lets me see C:/ D:/ A:/ and all that crap. but apparently there is nothing in it.

Soooooo, cool!
Ok thanks man!
I got the dos floppy going now i have control over the system.
but the problem is i dont know how to control it:D .so, if you could explain it step by step how to copy that KNOPPIX folder thing, then I would be much obliged...Because on this DOS mode i dont know how to access the cdrom.
...Will I still have to make another partition, or can I just use D: ?it is 347 MB FAT16.
thnx man! If i get this going, it will be soooo cool.

You are at the point that we know the boot floppy seems to be working as expected. The failure to find the knoppix file would indicate possibly a non-standard, i.e., non-ide cdrom drive interface, possibly scsi or some proprietary or it may indicate the cdrom drive is malfunctiing.

As for the DOS boot floppy, many times you can get one with cdrom support see www.bootdisk.com. What we are trying to determine is if you can see the files on cdrom from DOS, and therefore copy the knoppix/knoppic to c:\ or even d:\

I still cant figure it out

How about a USB thumbdrive? Do you have USB on the computer and a thumbdrive?

I'm also a total noob, so I won't advise further.

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