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Topic: Booting DSL from DOS, how do i boot dsl from DOS?

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Patrick

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Posted: Sep. 14 2004,11:34

Rehi hi,

Can anybody tell me how to boot DSL from DOS? (from my DOS booting USB-stick)...

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Berny
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Posted: Sep. 14 2004,21:39

The tool of your choice should be loadlin.

There is also a howto that describes a way to choose between Windows and Linux with a keypress at bootup: The Loadlin+Win95/98/ME mini-HOWTO

Patrick

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Posted: Sep. 15 2004,07:52

Hello Berny,

Loadlin seems to need a vmlinuz-file that isn't available in DSL. (or should i use the KNOPPIX-file which is located in the
KNOPPIX-directory)?

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Usb-stick sandisk cruzer titanium 512 Mb:
DSL 2.3 (final)
Firefox (Mozilla 1.06)
WM -biff -cdplay -clockmon -smixer -usic -top -net -biff -ifinfo -cpuload
gps vnc LinNeighborhood (samba) QtParted bdc
xawtv imagemagick xplanet

henk1955

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Posted: Sep. 15 2004,08:09

vmlinuz is the kernel.
for DSL > 0.8.0 you use linux24 and minirt24.gz

you need a c:\dsl\inux.bat like:

Code Sample

loadlin @c:\dsl\loadlin.par

and a c:\dsl\loadlin.par like

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c:\dsl\linux24 initrd=c:\dsl\minirt24.gz fromhd=/dev/sda1 ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=nl apm=power-off max_scsi_luns=6 vga=792 quiet nomce noprompt noeject splash

now make sure you have the KNOPPIX dir on your usb-stick
AND linux24 and minirt24.gz in c:\dsl
you can copy then from /boot/isolinux or extract from boot.img

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Patrick

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Posted: Sep. 15 2004,08:59

Thanx Henk (of dank je wel),

It works!!!! (i now have a bootable usb-stick with DOS & linux on board!!!!

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Usb-stick sandisk cruzer titanium 512 Mb:
DSL 2.3 (final)
Firefox (Mozilla 1.06)
WM -biff -cdplay -clockmon -smixer -usic -top -net -biff -ifinfo -cpuload
gps vnc LinNeighborhood (samba) QtParted bdc
xawtv imagemagick xplanet

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