DSL Embedded :: Maybe dsl-windows.bat is not working correctly?



I bought this USB stick off this website from the people running the project.
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/usb.html

I read the readme.txt included, but it didn't help much.
I can't follow the instructions about what to type at
the boot: prompt, because it jumps past all that, fails to find
the Knoppix filesystem and drops me to the knoppix# prompt.

"Dropping you to a (very limited) shell."
only 'cat' 'mount' 'umount' 'insmod' 'rmmod' and 'lsmod' are available.
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When Running from Windows:
Double click on 'dsl-windows.bat'
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dsl-windows.bat:
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REM Start qemu on windows.
@ECHO OFF

START qemu\qemu.exe -L qemu/ -no-kqemu -m 128 -soundhw sb16 -localtime -kernel linux24 -initrd minirt24.gz -hda KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX -hdb qemu/harddisk -append "qemu sb=0x220,5,1,5 frugal quiet modules=hdb noscsi nousb nofirewire atapicd noideraid noacpi acpi=off noapm noagp ide1=noprobe ide2=noprobe nomce"

CLS
EXIT
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It used to say, KNOPPIX/knoppix, but that produced the same errors.
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Here's a dirlist:
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Directory of G:\
2007-02-02  09:49    <DIR>          KNOPPIX
2007-02-02  09:49               119 boot.msg
2007-02-02  09:49               226 dsl-linux.sh
2007-02-02  09:49             1,592 f2
2007-02-02  09:49             1,595 f3
2007-02-02  09:49               256 german.kbd
2007-02-02  09:49           994,807 linux24
2007-02-02  09:49            33,780 logo.16
2007-02-02  09:49           812,257 minirt24.gz
2007-02-02  09:49    <DIR>          qemu
2007-02-02  09:49               468 qemu-linux-notes.txt
2007-02-02  09:49             1,965 readme.txt
2007-02-02  09:49             2,075 syslinux.cfg
2007-02-02  09:49             7,844 LDLINUX.SYS
2007-02-02  09:49               364 Copy of dsl-windows.bat
2007-02-11  11:14               364 dsl-windows.bat
             14 File(s)      1,857,712 bytes
Directory of G:\KNOPPIX
2007-02-02  09:49    <DIR>          .
2007-02-02  09:49    <DIR>          ..
2007-02-02  09:49        49,824,174 KNOPPIX
              1 File(s)     49,824,174 bytes
Directory of G:\qemu
2007-02-02  09:49    <DIR>          .
2007-02-02  09:49    <DIR>          ..
2007-02-02  09:49    <DIR>          License
2007-02-02  09:49           357,888 SDL.dll
2007-02-02  09:49            65,536 bios.bin
2007-02-02  09:49           162,816 fmod.dll
2007-02-02  09:49        61,440,000 harddisk
2007-02-02  09:49               512 linux_boot.bin
2007-02-02  09:49           750,104 qemu
2007-02-02  09:49           916,480 qemu.exe
2007-02-02  09:49            32,768 vgabios-cirrus.bin
2007-02-02  09:49            32,768 vgabios.bin
              9 File(s)     63,758,872 bytes
Directory of G:\qemu\License
2007-02-02  09:49    <DIR>          .
2007-02-02  09:49    <DIR>          ..
2007-02-02  09:49               346 LICENSE
2007-02-02  09:49             5,177 README.TXT
2007-02-02  09:49               425 README-SDL.txt
              3 File(s)          5,948 bytes
    Total Files Listed:
             27 File(s)    115,446,706 bytes
              9 Dir(s)     932,102,144 bytes free
There will be no boot-prompt when you run DSL using qemu.  The equivalent of the boot prompt is what is written after -append on the command line in dsl-windows.bat.

To see error messages from qemu please open a command prompt, cd to the root of your USB stick and run dsl-windows.bat from there.

Try to download dsl-3.1-embedded.zip (if that is your version) and compare the KNOPPIX file on you USB stick with the file in the zip.

original here.