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Topic: Disketteboot on small machine, no CD access

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matthu

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Posted: Jan. 10 2006,10:28

Hi

at first sorry for my english

i have a small 386 machine with coprocessor
booting from floppydisk works until it tries to look for the CD.
the errormessage:
/linuxrc: cannot create /: is a directory

i tried the bootoptions for hardware reduction, but no effect.

when i disconnected the CD the rescuelinux starts.
thanks for help

matthu

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skaos

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Posted: Jan. 10 2006,10:50

What kind of CD drive do you have? - many old boxes used special connectors (not IDE) which DSL may not support. An alternative may be to take out the disk, put it into a newer PC (disconnect all other hard disks), install DSL and finally put the disk back.

matthu

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Posted: Jan. 10 2006,11:28

Hi
thanks for the fast answer
its a brand new CD drive and its connected to the IDE Bus.
i get the errormessage also when there is no CD in the drive.
I burned the CD two time with two images from two mirrors .... :-|

did anybody see this errormessage before?
/linuxrc: cannot create /: is a directory

sorry for my english again
matthu

Ivan-NL

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Posted: Jan. 12 2006,13:37

I think... that your PC doesn't support ATAPI devices (like newer CD-ROM drives)

Does that PC have a network card? you might try a HD-to-HD install on it

cbagger01

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Posted: Jan. 12 2006,18:30

Try booting your old OS, like say MSDOS for example.

Copy the KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX from the CDROM over to C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX

Then boot from the floppy with this command:

Code Sample

dsl 1 vga=normal atapicd noideraid nosound noapic noacpi acpi=off noscsi noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce

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