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Posted: May 09 2005,16:47 |
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Hi,
I would love to use DSL on my old notebook which has no hard
disk, but I have the following problem:
1) - booting directly from CD does not work because no hard drive is detected (BIOS bug)
2) - booting from Floppy does work with smart-boot-manager (a cool tool btw, see http://btmgr.webframe.org/ ) but then my PCMCIA Network Card is not recognized
3) - if I boot from a floppy created from the old boot-0.8.0.img rom the download area then the Network Card works
In both cases 2 and 3, the same CD is used (DSL 1.1 current, isolinux) and the kernel command line (verified with cat /proc/cmdline ) is identical. I don't understand why it works
when the system is started with the old 0.8 floppy. What is the difference between that and booting from CD ?
Is there a way to create a current boot floppy from a running
DSL? I guess that should work, but I want a single boot floppy not two like Knoppix so that the floppy can always stay in
the drive. Strange that the newest floppy image in the download section is 0.8.0. Are newer versions too big for that?
Regards,
Albert
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