Disketteboot on small machineForum: Other Help Topics Topic: Disketteboot on small machine started by: matthu Posted by matthu on Jan. 10 2006,10:28
Hiat first sorry for my english i have a small 386 machine with coprocessor booting from floppydisk works until it tries to look for the CD. the errormessage: /linuxrc: cannot create /: is a directory i tried the bootoptions for hardware reduction, but no effect. when i disconnected the CD the rescuelinux starts. thanks for help matthu Ver 2.0 Posted by skaos on Jan. 10 2006,10:50
What kind of CD drive do you have? - many old boxes used special connectors (not IDE) which DSL may not support. An alternative may be to take out the disk, put it into a newer PC (disconnect all other hard disks), install DSL and finally put the disk back.
Posted by matthu on Jan. 10 2006,11:28
Hithanks for the fast answer its a brand new CD drive and its connected to the IDE Bus. i get the errormessage also when there is no CD in the drive. I burned the CD two time with two images from two mirrors .... :-| did anybody see this errormessage before? /linuxrc: cannot create /: is a directory sorry for my english again matthu Posted by Ivan-NL on Jan. 12 2006,13:37
I think... that your PC doesn't support ATAPI devices (like newer CD-ROM drives)Does that PC have a network card? you might try a HD-to-HD install on it Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 12 2006,18:30
Try booting your old OS, like say MSDOS for example.Copy the KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX from the CDROM over to C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX Then boot from the floppy with this command:
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