cbagger01
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Posted: July 31 2005,05:58 |
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OK,
It appears that your computer's CD drive was not detected by the boot floppy. This is probably because it is one of those old CDROM drives that has a custom controller that is plugged into a soundcard instead of a newer ATAPI drive that plugs into your motherboard's hard drive controller.
You can fix this by copying the \KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX file over from your CD into your hard drive, for example:
C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX
Then you can boot DSL via the floppy and it will see the file on your hard drive instead of your old CDROM drive.
If you are without any OS at all, you will need to install a small OS from floppies like MSDOS or FReeDOS
Google for FreeDOS and use it to make a DOS partition on your hard drive and then copy the file over to it.
Use the "Install DSL from floppies" approach if you can't get your CDROM drive to work from within FreeDOS or MSDOS
Or you might be able to do this in linux with Tom's root boot disk, aka tomsrtbt linux
Another, far easier way to do things is to remove the hard drive from this computer and install it into a newer PC temporarily. Make sure that you install it as the Primary Master drive.
Then boot from the DSL livecd and install DSL on the hard drive.
Then put the hard drive back into your original computer.
So there are multiple ways of making things happen, but all will require some amount of work.
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