Cant find Knoppix Filesystem ?
Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Cant find Knoppix Filesystem ?
started by: smevans
Posted by smevans on April 21 2004,21:46
I have burned the ISO using Nero, reboot and it begins to load. I get the Penguin in the top left then in "red" I get the above error and cannot continue ?Any thoughts ?
Strangely I used the ISO with MS Virtual Machine and it ran fine ??
Posted by Dan on April 22 2004,17:49
Hmm, maybe it is your cd drive?Have you tried a different PC?
Posted by smevans on April 22 2004,17:49
Come on people, surely someone knows 
Have tried downloading it again and using a different cd burning prog and still no joy. Have also tried it on 3 pcs !?
Posted by Dan on April 22 2004,18:05
Maybe it is your cd-burner? Or the iso integrate?
Posted by smevans on April 22 2004,18:24
Had a thought !!Maybe its not mounting the CD corectly and therefore cannot find the filesystem ? Would kinda make sense.
How do I use the "mount" command to mount my cd ?
Posted by roberts on April 22 2004,18:29
I would suggest to slow down the burn speed. I have seen this when you try to burn at your drive's rated speed. Try burn speed of say 4.
Posted by smevans on April 22 2004,19:27
| Quote (roberts @ April 22 2004,14:29) |
| I would suggest to slow down the burn speed. I have seen this when you try to burn at your drive's rated speed. Try burn speed of say 4. |
Just tried this and no joy i'm afraid
Posted by roberts on April 22 2004,21:45
OK. Tell us more about your hardware and in particular the cdrom drive. Me thinks it is acting like a USB device?
Posted by smevans on April 23 2004,12:46
| Quote (roberts @ April 22 2004,17:45) |
| OK. Tell us more about your hardware and in particular the cdrom drive. Me thinks it is acting like a USB device? |
I've got a funny feeling its my CDRW for some reason... I just tried to use SLAX and it wouldnt work either.
Very odd as I have used it for Redhat, Suse, Mandrake without a problem..
Posted by gjhicks on May 19 2004,01:19
Hi,I also burned the DSL 0.7 ISO onto a CD and when used I got the red "can't find knoppix file system error".
I got out my DSL 0.63 CD and got the same error message, after getting a 'wrong screen resolution' error message (which I hadn't seen before on other PCs).
Yes, my CDROM is connected via USB.
The same CDROM has successfully booted up other linux, eg: Mandrake 10 (that's a subject for a different post!), so it seems that the drive is OK.
Any idea why DSL misbehaves?
Regards,
Geoff.
Posted by Alisdair Kelly on May 19 2004,23:47
Hi friends,Well I'm also at my wits end with the same error message. In my case the ISO was burned a the lowest speed offered by the burner (~8X). In trying to boot on an older Gateway PII-450 box with 128mb RAM and a brand new Maxtor 40gb hdd, with BiNG as the boot manager, I get aggravation. The same CD boots and runs like a champion on a PII-233/128RAM box (am typing from it now).
Based on the earlier posts regarding burner speed, I think that I can rule out that cause for the grief. I'm going to uninstall BiNG and try again after formating and partitioning.
Posted by Alisdair Kelly on May 20 2004,18:21
Just a quick follow up. I changed out the CDROM for a newer and cleaner unit this morning. Now the CDs boot with no trouble. SO, perhaps the error is due to the CDROM
lens being out of alignment or just being dirty.:cool:
Posted by Rapidweather on May 20 2004,23:31
When I first got involved with DSL, I ordered two CD's directly from John Andrews. Those worked just fine. As a baseline, that might be the thing to do, then you will have eliminated quite a bit. If the Official DSL CD's work, then thedownloading, burning, etc. process is suspect.
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I later downloaded my own DSL, but then got into remastering of it. After several
tries, I found that I was setting up my Creative CD program incorrectly, and wound up with slow-booting CD's.
They often took a couple of minutes to start on some machines, but started almost immediately on others.
The Official CD's I got always booted right away, so I knew something was wrong with my method, and eventually found the answer to it.
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I do not yet distribute my remaster of DSL, but here is a look at the
Getting Started Guide that I have with the current version.
(It would be free, but would suggest a contribution be made to John Andrews, of Damn Small Linux, to help pay for the Forum, very valuable to all who work with any version of DSL.)
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< http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/getting_started.html >
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Posted by Alisdair Kelly on May 21 2004,23:26
Hi Rapidweather,I read thru your Getting Started Guide last evening, Kudos to you! Well written and very clear.
It certainly cleared up a couple of "hazy" places in my understanding of how to use DSL.:)
Posted by pieterprovoost on June 05 2004,03:03
I am having the exact same problem on my HP Pavilion laptop, but I extracted the folder KNOPPIX directly from the iso, without burning it to a cd. So I guess the cd is not the problem (it didn't work with cd either). Any thoughts? Thanks!
Posted by it on June 10 2004,03:08
nero has (nero express) try this .then it asks what you would like to burn?
pick( Disk image or saved project)this will ask to
open the saved file.you have downloaded .
in order for you to select the ISO file you need to
scroll down and pick the second from the bottom
file type (image file(*.nrg.*.iso.*.cue) ).and you should be ok.
good luck tand.
Posted by gnuts on June 28 2004,15:45
Hi, I've been struggling with booting DSL on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT and got the same message. In stead of just burning the ISO file I extracted the Knoppix file to the cd as well. Now when I boot it finds the Knoppix file system. It then proceeds to flash some message about not handling the kernel which zips off the screen and then freezes with some info I don't understand. any help would be appreciated. hope it helps and thanks.
Posted by sszilveszter on Feb. 03 2005,16:11
I've found the solution:The problem is with the minirt24.gz in the root directory of the usb pen drive
you can correct it from the bootusb-0.8.img with the winimage program, just extract from
the bootusb-0.8.img the minirt24.gz to your root dir of your pen drive (it is 248090 bytes and
not 187852 bytes)
Posted by sszilveszter on Mar. 01 2005,12:40
the correct bootusb-0.8.img is on< http://dsl.thegeekery.com/current/bootusb-0.8.img >