DSL Tips and Tricks :: how to install DSL to HD thru LPT CDRM drv



Hi Cbagger01..

Thank you so much for the reply :)   Yea i took some weeks off of my hobbies (like THIS ONE, and video gaming) and just dedicated all my christmas-to-new year's spare time with family :)

well HAPPY NEW YEAR :)

I probably will just trash that really old laptop ( Pentium 1 - 90mhz + 24MB ram with no cdrom drive) or try to do that command that u described. ITs a shame I got it for $300 about 5 years ago when it was considred "good buy"

but anyways.. my sis gave me her 6 year old machine ( pentium 800mhz + 128MB ram + 2GB HD) and for the past 4 hours.. I was able to run LIVE DSL and then install to the HD :)    This is what I'm going to give to my grandpa :)

I have one question tho.. if you don't mind...  how come on the right side of the screen.. when i scroll thru the devices that can be mounted/dismounted.. it now just show FD / CDROM .. its not showing the HARDDISK as a device ??
Hi Cbagger01..

Thank you so much for the reply :)   Yea i took some weeks off of my hobbies (like THIS ONE, and video gaming) and just dedicated all my christmas-to-new year's spare time with family :)

well HAPPY NEW YEAR :)

I probably will just trash that really old laptop ( Pentium 1 - 90mhz + 24MB ram with no cdrom drive) or try to do that command that u described. ITs a shame I got it for $300 about 5 years ago when it was considred "good buy"

but anyways.. my sis gave me her 6 year old machine ( pentium 800mhz + 128MB ram + 2GB HD) and for the past 4 hours.. I was able to run LIVE DSL and then install to the HD :)    This is what I'm going to give to my grandpa :)

I have one question tho.. if you don't mind...  how come on the right side of the screen.. when i scroll thru the devices that can be mounted/dismounted (docks).. it now only show FD / CDROM ..and not the HARDDISK ??
Quote (cbagger01 @ Dec. 20 2005,22:46)
Make sure that you copy all of the files to your C:\ drive and also make sure that you copy to

C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX

Note the UPPERCASE letters.

Hey, will it work in a Win2000 install ? Because I'm with a weird setup here : My DSL (current.iso) CD won't complete it's boot, looks like the laptop (Infamous mini-Vaio PG505FX, PMMX@266, 32M RAM, 5Gb Disk) once the CD booted, won't see it's CD anymore. It's attached via a dedicated PC-card and at every boot, DSL says scannong for USB devices... OK, and then : SDL can't find any KNOPPIX system, dropping you to a very limited shell. And indeed.

On the other hand, there IS an install of Win2k on this laptop, of witch I wanted to get RID, or at least, REDUCE to a drastic 1Gb, thinking it was impossible. Where again are the instructions to install the DSL install files *into* a win partition, and the mount it from a CD boot ?
thanks everyone ! Linux just rules.
You cannot use it with a Win2000 install unless you create a FAT or FAT32 data partition.

Win2000/XP/2003 use the NTFS file system that cannot be used with the KNOPPIX cloop file.
I will suggest not using the dma switch when one runs into the "CD will boot but not read thereafter" problem. Some old CD drives don't like the dma on. Dell Inspiron 3200 for example.

Also, I'm wondering if your doing a frugal install to HD (when you said HD install). From the way I read the directions, a Debian like install is when you're wanting just that. That is, a way to install Debian via this DSL. Perhaps grandpa would be best able to have you copy over the new DSL instead; in one quick file (saving all his stuff in petsistant dirs) when the new versions come out; via the frugal install.
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