What hapens if my cd drive isnt bootableForum: HD Install Topic: What hapens if my cd drive isnt bootable started by: dgrafix Posted by dgrafix on Oct. 21 2005,16:44
I hve an old pentium laptop - paperweight.I would like to try out dsl on it, but the bolt on cdrom is one of those non bootable ones. I have a floppy drive tho. My question is, how do i make a bootable floppy that allows me access to the cd so i can run the setup program. The other question is , where is the setup program on the disk and how do i run it, and can it be done from a dos startup disk Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 21 2005,17:42
There is a floppy image available on the download mirrors. You can use a program like rawwrite in windows to create the disk, or dd in Linux.Once you boot into the liveCD, you can install to harddrive or removable media from various scripts available in the menu. There is no dos-based installer, or even a traditional linux installer. You need to have some sort of linux system running in order to install, and in some cases that system needs to be DSL. Posted by dgrafix on Oct. 22 2005,01:24
Thanksok, ive downloaded the image and have a brand new floppy disk. how do i use dd because the --help is horrible! also do i need to format it to ext2 first? if so how? Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 22 2005,03:00
dd is fairly simple...just specify the input file and the output file. In this case the input file is the floppy image and the output file is the floppy device:dd if=/path/to/floppyimage.img of=/dev/fd0 If it doesn't work you may need to do it as root. Formatting of the floppy is unnecessary...the image contains the necessary filesystem, as far as i know. Posted by dgrafix on Oct. 22 2005,11:22
it boots into a kind of limited shell with the commands mount lsmod etc. I cannot seem to mount the cd rom. I think its a scsi one
Posted by cbagger01 on Oct. 23 2005,07:29
Boot into your old operating system and copy the \KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX file over to your C: drive as C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX (use all uppercase letters)Then try the boot floppy again. Posted by JDP on Oct. 26 2005,03:12
Hi. I just did an install on to a Toshiba 425CDT. It's a P1 w/ a non-booable CD-ROM. I see someone else around here has the same thing, as the 420 and 425 differ only in the software that shipped on 'em. Anyway, I use < Smart Boot Manager > on a floppy to get almost any CD to boot. I can't boot some burned CDs because my CDROM is just too old and won't read certain media types.. Otherwise it works great for everything from Win98 CD to Puppy Linux to DSL.I wouldn't try a boot floppy from any distro unless SBM won't work. SBM keeps this old beater in league with all those native CD boot capeable show-offs. ;) Posted by abramhollon on Nov. 03 2005,15:30
I have the same problem. Is there a network boot disk floppy image for dsl? It would be very much help if you could email me the file because I have been looking for the correct network.img file for the last 4 days!!!Thank you, Abram Hollon Posted by AwPhuch on Nov. 03 2005,16:49
1. If you have a working Windows on that machine then get < RawWrite for windows > and download the bootfloppy.img from the download dir2. Burn the bootfloppy.img to the floppy 3. Copy the directory structure of the CD to your fat32 partition (the /boot /KNOPPIX dir to c:/ ) 4. Reboot with the bootfloppy and it will autodetect the /KNOPPIX dir in your fat32 partition and start loading 5. Install the DSL to your hd 6. Remove floppy 7. Reboot 8. Enjoy Brian AwPhuch |