Huggy
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Joined: Sep. 2006 |
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Posted: Sep. 03 2006,23:33 |
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OK, I'll start by taking a large breath. Here is my neverending saga:
Where I am now:
Trying to run the CD from a boot floppy. Screen says, in red:
Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry. Dropping you to a (very limited) shell. Press reset button to quit.
How I got there:
I have a 333mHz Pentium 3 with 256 Meg of Ram
I want to run DSL on it.
It won't boot from any cd.
Using the Wiki I learned how to make a boot floppy, which is working. I made three versions of the CD, burning at 16x, as instructed on the wiki. One version is the regular live cd, borned as non-bootable. One is the Sys version, non bootable, and one is the sys version, bootable, with the boot image pointing to knoppix. Computer is running WIN XP.
I also tried the 'poor man's boot' by copying the KNOPPIX directory in the C: drive.
I am assuming there is something I can type into the command line to fix it, but I have no experience with such a thing, except running dos games when I was 6.
My thinking: I either
1) Am just out of luck
2)Burned the CD's incorrectly (do I need to convert to raw data? or is burning the image sufficient?)
Bear in mind that I am not a computer person, any techy terms I won't understand unless spelled out.
Suggestions?
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