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Topic: Live-CD, floppy, everything fails..., SCSI Problem?

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ewenger

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Posted: Oct. 11 2004,21:38

I have the following system:

2xPPro180
Adaptec SCSI with disk at sda and cdrom at scd0
128 MB RAM

When I try booting from CD I get the ISOLINUX text and then it fails saying it can't find the CD. I have Redhat installed on sda with 32MB at sda1 and the rest (minux swap) at sda2. I copied the KNOPPIX folder from the CD to sda2 (so I have /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX). I tried booting from the floppy and it searches everywhere and the gives up. Since the floppy has no diagnostic ability I can't figure out what's next. I can boot from a Tom's Rootdisk/Bootdisk and see everything but I don't know how to boot into the KNOPPIX image from there. Any suggestions?

cbagger01

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Posted: Oct. 12 2004,03:29

Try making the "USB boot floppy" instead of the regular one.

It should search sda1 for /KNOPPIX but it might also search sda2.

If not, flip-flop your two partitions and use the USB boot floppy and it should work properly.

ewenger

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Posted: Oct. 12 2004,18:02

I can't figure out how to flip-flop my partitions...

cbagger01

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Posted: Oct. 12 2004,22:32

Assuming that you have no important data on your partitions, you can use a program like cfdisk (or even Microsoft DOS/Windows 95/98 boot floppy with FDISK program copied into it) to delete your old sda1 and sda2 partitions and then create a new FAT or FAT32 sda1 partition. (leave yourself some leftover blank space so you can create the swap partition later on).

Then copy the \KNOPPIX directory over to your newly created partition and reboot with the USB boot floppy.

Once you are running under DSL you can use cfdisk and mkswap to create your swap partition.

Good Luck.

ke4nt1

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Posted: Oct. 12 2004,22:40

Have you gone into your adaptec bios, at startup,
and set the cdrom to be the bootable device?
I'm guessing so if your seeing the ISOLINUX onscreen ..

Does the CDROM boot on other devices/computers ?
My SCSI drive DOES NOT LIKE cdroms burned
at higher speeds than 4X ..

The /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX image wont boot like a HDInstall.
So booting from the SCSI Hard Drive wont work until you setup
either a frugal install or a HDInstall to the drive, which includes lilo.

What type of adaptec card do you have your SCSI devices
attached to ?

Could you "temporarily" attach an IDE CDROM to the box, until
your install is complete?

73
ke4nt

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