make a boot floppy with raw dsl 0.80

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Topic: make a boot floppy with raw dsl 0.80
started by: rosebud

Posted by rosebud on Sep. 08 2004,07:08

hello
congratulations for dsl

i have read the faq...

changelog says "a new boot floppy"

i try to make a boot floppy for my old laptop dell xpcdi 166mhz ram 48 on windows with rawrite.

but when i explore dsl cdrom i don't find boot.img.

can anymore help me to create a boot floppy ?
thanks

Posted by rosebud on Sep. 08 2004,08:36

hello again

on antother laptop i run dsl 0.8.0 and i want to create a floppy boot
in shell sh iwrite this
"sudo su"
then " dd if=boot-0.8.0.img of=dev/fd0"
but it doesn't nothing simply no such file
i retry with "dd if=boot.img of/dev/fd0" nothing too ? :angry:

Posted by ypx on Sep. 08 2004,08:54

i think that the boot.img you're searching is here :
< ftp://ibiblio.org/pub....8.0.img >
hope this help

Posted by rosebud on Sep. 08 2004,09:35

thank you ypx

when i burn this boot.img but i have another problem
when i introduce the floppy boot i have this msg
"loading linux 24.......
" load minitrt24.gz
"you passed an undefined mode number
i press scan
i see "welcome to dsl" then
"sorry can't find knoppix file system" ( dsl is introduce in my cd player)
"droppin, you to a very limited shell"
"press reset better to quit"
"additional built in command avaliable"
cat mount unmount
insmod rmod lsmod
knoppix #
what can i do or it's impossible to install dsl on my laptop : dell latitude xpci mst166 48 ram ( bios can but only hd or floppy not cd player)

thanks for your help

excuse for my bad english

Posted by ypx on Sep. 08 2004,09:54

i had a similar problem once or twice... but there was option to ignore that came up, which i choose. worked fine, and the problem didn't occured anymore.
So i'm sorry but i can't help more than that.

Posted by henk1955 on Sep. 08 2004,10:02

if i understand right you have 3 hardware options

1. hd and floppy and NO cd
or
2. hd and cd and NO floppy
or do you have
3. hd and cd in laptop and throuh extra port the floppy

case 3:
there should be no problem.
if there is a problem then do same as case 2

case 1.
remove the floppy-drive insert the cdrom-drive
then same as case 2

case 2.
copy the KNOPPIX directory to the root of your windows C: drive
remove the cdrom-drive insert the floppy-drive
boot from floppy.
at the boot: prompt type:
dsl fromhd=/dev/hda1

Posted by rosebud on Sep. 08 2004,10:36

thank you for all

my problem is for my old laptop with cd player and a hd and a floppy disk but the bios don't autohrize to boot with cd player .....but i have too another new laptop and dsl works perfecty.

i try today the henk1995's method (copy knoppy to c:\knoppix and at the boot dsl fromhd=/dev/hda1 ) and i say you after if it's works.

Posted by rosebud on Sep. 08 2004,13:55

hello

ok i have success to install damn 0.8.0 on my old laptop but the screen is very bad i can work because, it's blue and i dont see anything i have video magic card inside.???

Posted by ripcrd6 on Sep. 08 2004,14:07

boot up with the "dsl xsetup" and choose the xfbserv for framebuffer mode. I have to do this on laptops. There is probably another boot option, but I always use this one.

Posted by Delboy on Sep. 08 2004,14:20

Any more details on graphics card or chip?
If you mean 'Neomagic' card like my old laptop, you may have same video problems I had. My Neomagic card 128v from 1995 Digital Hinote works beautifully with 'fb800x600' added to boot prompt on first live boot, then selection of framebuffer graphics server (not SVGA). It is the only way I managed to get this display to work. This configuration is memorised by the HD install process so it automatically boots into correct display mode without any more boot prompt lines.

Posted by rosebud on Sep. 08 2004,14:38

hello
i have done what you say "dsl xsetup"
i saw you passed an undefined mode number press return
video adapter :vesa vga
mode col x rows
0, 1,2,3,4,5,6 or scan
i choose for example n° 2
the xvesa and xframebuffer appeared
i choosed 640x480 8 bit but the screen is now blue stripes green

like a zebre

my video card on prompt: magic graph 128 ZV 48 SVGA

thanks

Posted by rosebud on Sep. 08 2004,14:54

hello again it's me

IT'S WORKS

i do what says Delboy :;):

on boot prompt simply fb800x600 nothing else............ when i typed "dsl fb800x600" it didn't work

thank you for all guys

Posted by rosebud on Sep. 08 2004,14:55

hello again it's me

IT'S WORKS

i do what says Delboy :;):

on boot prompt simply fb800x600 nothing else............ when i typed "dsl fb800x600" it didn't work

thank you for all guys