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Posted: Aug. 09 2006,13:48 QUOTE
For some reason DSL does not boot on my comp (HP Pavilion) while others Linux CDs do.

So I found a solution, I use other Linux do boot DSL by using "diskemu dsl.iso". It works perfect if I include
/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX on the cd.

It is redundant and I would like to reduce the size of dsl.iso
to booting stuff only. I cannot find boot.img.

What is a good way to get the boot.img or how to make
reduced iso file for booting into /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX ?
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Posted: Aug. 09 2006,15:35 QUOTE
Did you try the syslinux version?
The /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX is pretty much the whole size of the cd.

CD boot data is stored in .../{sys|iso}linux/
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Posted: Aug. 09 2006,16:28 QUOTE
Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Aug. 09 2006,11:35)
Did you try the syslinux version?
The /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX is pretty much the whole size of the cd.

CD boot data is stored in .../{sys|iso}linux/

> Did you try the syslinux version?
> The /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX is pretty much
> the whole size of the cd.

Thank you. I will try diskemu on

dsl-3.0.1-syslinux.iso

> CD boot data is stored in .../{sys|iso}linux/

diskemu cannot boot any of the files in this
directory
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Posted: Aug. 09 2006,17:09 QUOTE
Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Aug. 09 2006,11:35)
Did you try the syslinux version?
The /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX is pretty much the whole size of the cd.

CD boot data is stored in .../{sys|iso}linux/

> Did you try the syslinux version?

I tried. Same problem - it looks for KNOPPIX
directory:

"Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem ..."

So it looks that I need to use disemu on
some small booting image isntead of using
the entire dsl iso. There must be some way?
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Posted: Aug. 09 2006,18:29 QUOTE
Quote (Martin2 @ Aug. 09 2006,13:09)
Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Aug. 09 2006,11:35)
Did you try the syslinux version?
The /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX is pretty much the whole size of the cd.

CD boot data is stored in .../{sys|iso}linux/

> Did you try the syslinux version?

I tried. Same problem - it looks for KNOPPIX
directory:

"Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem ..."

So it looks that I need to use disemu on
some small booting image isntead of using
the entire dsl iso. There must be some way?

I found the way around,

I took the boot.img from syslinux
and put KNOPPIX stuff in /KNOPPIX
directory

now I can boot using:
diskemu boot.img
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