Boot.img in a floppy disc is recognized.

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Topic: Boot.img in a floppy disc is recognized.
started by: ArchAngel466

Posted by ArchAngel466 on Nov. 25 2005,01:42

Okay, the computer I'm trying to run the DSL Live CD on is very old. Eight years, actually. System specs: Pentium II <256mb RAM, Voodoo II Graphics Card, 7-gig hard drive. I'm using Windows XP for my OS.

The computer doesn't recognize the disc, no matter what I do. The BIOS is set to look at the CD drive before it checks the hard drive for an operating system, but it doesn't. As a matter of fact, the booting-up process is not affected at all by the presence of the Live CD in the CD drive.

I copied the boot.img off of the Live CD I burned and used Raw Write to create a boot floppy. The computer recognizes that, luckily, so I have it sitting on the first DSL screen, at the boot: prompt.

Is there any way to make it load DSL from the CD, now that I've gotten to the boot: screen?

Posted by cbagger01 on Nov. 25 2005,06:22

Try doing a "poormans install":

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Boot_Floppies >

But you will need a FAT (MSDOS/Win95 default type) FAT32 (Win98/ME default type) or EXT2 (Linux) data partition on your hard drive.

Posted by cbagger01 on Nov. 25 2005,06:25

You must have a very old version of DSL if the boot.img file is still sitting on the livecd

Posted by ArchAngel466 on Nov. 26 2005,22:54

I was using dsl-2.0-syslinux.iso.

The problem was the program I was using to record the ISO images. MagicISO was corrupting the images it burned, so I switched over to a different program and it works fine.

DSL runs so much faster on my computer than Windows XP. I'm still getting adjusted to Linux, though, having grown up on buggy Windows 95 and 98.