jb10
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Joined: Sep. 2004 |
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Posted: Oct. 01 2004,14:50 |
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here's what i've done so far:
pii 233 mhz, 32mb ram, 3 gb
1 - wiped the hard drive completely
2 - made an ms-dos boot disk, used fdisk to partition a 2gb space, then formatted that 2gb space
3 - copied the knoppix folder from the dsl cd-rom to the c: drive
here's my problem: i don't have a driver installed to recognize the cd-rom drive without using the 3.5" floppy ms-dos boot disk.
after i partitioned and formatted the hard drive, i rebooted with the dsl cd-rom, but all i got was an error message "invalid system disk--replace the disk and press any key." i think this is because there's no driver installed for the cd-rom and, as a result, the dsl cd can't communicate with the hard drive without using the ms-dos floppy to boot the computer (but by that time the computer has already been booted).
i need to use the ms-dos disk to boot the computer (and the cd-rom drive), but i'm under the impression that dsl only works upon boot up. i've copied the files to the c: drive, but that doesn't seem to do anything, even when i reboot with ms-dos diskette...are there any executable files that i can access via c: prompt?
what to do? the only options i can think of are: 1) get an installable driver for the cd-rom that runs in ms-dos (do they make these?) or 2) get a 3.5" version of dsl.
i'm _completely new_ to linux (as you can see, i can't even install it), so please give me advice of which a new user can make sense!
thanks in advance...
-jb
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