no booting from fat diskForum: Laptops Topic: no booting from fat disk started by: Moppedboy Posted by Moppedboy on Oct. 08 2004,13:50
Hi there,I try to install dsl to an old P120-Compaq laptop, which is unable to boot from CD. So I copied the content of the dsl cd to Windows c:\ and made a boot floppy. But when I boot from the floppy, it says that it can't find any bootable partitions and leaves me to the "very limited shell". I md5summed all downloaded isos and the cd/ floppy, the directory structure on hd is the same like the one on cd.... Any ideas what could I could do? TIA Cheerz Lars Posted by AwPhuch on Oct. 08 2004,15:22
Did you copy the knoppix file, or the KNOPPIX dir straight to the C:\ drive.. I believe it must have the knoppix file inside the KNOPPIX dir for it to boot properly Brian AwPhuch Posted by Moppedboy on Oct. 08 2004,15:33
Yes I copied / from the cd to c:\ so /KNOPPIX is direcly in the root of c:\ and the knoppix file (don't remember the exact name) is in c:\KNOPPIX . Maybe I should copy the Knoppix file to c:\?Cheerz Lars Posted by AwPhuch on Oct. 08 2004,15:35
What did you use to copy it?I use a virtual cdrom program like "daemon tools" or "alcohol 120" to extract the stuff from the .iso and then transfer over to my c:\ drive Brian AwPhuch Posted by Moppedboy on Oct. 09 2004,19:04
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