how to install from floppies with no previous os

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: how to install from floppies with no previous os
started by: merrick3307

Posted by merrick3307 on Dec. 12 2004,05:47

i have a floppy i can use to get to dos. thats it. the only valid drive is A:\. is there a way i can specially install dsl via floppies using this dos?

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Dec. 12 2004,05:59

what are your other system specs?

Most importantly, do you have a netcard?

Posted by alexsim2004 on Dec. 12 2004,10:19

I have the same problem, I have a Realy old PC which used to have Windows 3.1 on it until it got accidentally deleted, It's only got about 33Mhz and a very slow graphics card (Im not sure if it's even got one!) anyway it is a very old PC with only a floppy drive, i was wondering if i got get DSL on floppy and boot it on to my really old PC
Thanks
Alex

Posted by skaos on Dec. 12 2004,15:28

It should be possible - create a 55-60 MB dos/win partition, transfer the 48 MB knoppix file from the CD to c:\knoppix, download < http://ibiblio.org/pub.....0.img, > create and boot from the diskette, and it should work.

Posted by merrick3307 on Dec. 12 2004,20:13

System
• Processor: Pentium 75 – 200
• Main Memory: 40 MB of phisical ram

thats all i know. i have a modem card. IS that the same thing?

Posted by merrick3307 on Dec. 12 2004,20:17

i already told u i have no os. there is no 'c drive'. if i create a partition, will i have one? if so, how do i do this? i have fdisk. i just don't know how to use it ^_^.

Posted by skaos on Dec. 13 2004,11:06

Download and create a dos 6.22 bootdisk from < http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm; > boot with it, make a 55-60 MB partition with fdisk and format it with "format c: /S" (without quotes). Then you should have a c: partition.

Posted by merrick3307 on Dec. 15 2004,01:49

knoppix doesn't fit on a floppy

i even rared it and everything. im about ready to give up.

Posted by skaos on Dec. 15 2004,11:57

You have to use some (zip?) utility that splits the KNOPPIX file into floppy sized chunks (15-20 of them), copy them over and finally reassemble them into the KNOPPIX file.

Posted by merrick3307 on Dec. 15 2004,21:01

ohhhhhhhhhh