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MacrossFX

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Posted: Sep. 24 2005,05:42

Hey there all. I'm trying out a linux system for the first time. I'm installing dsl on a p120 mhz with 16mb of ram. I can't boot from the cd so I made a floppy boot disk but after uncompressing linux it gives me an error that the knoppix file system could not be find and brings me to what it says is a "very limited shell". I would like to know is it not supposed to read from the cd now? What do I do now? I read about copying some files to a KNOPPIX folder on c: but shouldn't the install work this way with a bootable floppy? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

MacrossFX

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Posted: Sep. 24 2005,06:07

UPDATE

I got past the part I was stuck at. Turns out my old cdrom drive couldn't read cd-rws. Anyway I've run into another problem. After going through the installation on the command prompt screens it now goes to a screen with a blue background an x in the screen which seems to respond to mouse movements. My cdrom keeps working here but nothing is happening. Any thoughts?

Diana
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Posted: Sep. 24 2005,15:49

I would like to try Linux on my old machine, too. It's a Pentium II, it's got a CD-ROM but I'm sure it's so ancient, it can't read current CDs so I would like to download linux to floppies and try to load it. Where did you download the files from? I reformatted my hard drive and just installed an MS DOS boot disk. I don't want to install windows since I just want to try Linux and see how it compares to windows (on my other computers). Can you help?

palloco

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Posted: Sep. 24 2005,17:36

And why wouldn't it read new cds?
Even the 12x cdrom drive from my 486 reads new cds

cbagger01

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Posted: Sep. 24 2005,21:40

CD-R disks can usually be read by even very old drives.

My 2X CDROM drive can read a CD-R disk, but not a CD-RW disk.

However, older drives are often controlled by a custom interface from a sound card instead of a ATAPI/IDE controller on the motherboard.

For these systems, a "poormans install" is recommended.

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