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ora

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Posted: Dec. 20 2005,18:41

hi
can you answer me how to do it ??
i have old laptop and this laptop have only floppy diskette
I have a (net)ethernet card

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Posted: Dec. 20 2005,20:45

Try me!

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ora

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Posted: Dec. 20 2005,22:20

thx for answer

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Posted: Dec. 21 2005,05:56

hi ..

following your link which is
2.d - Floppy Only Install with Netcard (Poormans Install)
it ask us to download TOMSRTBT and I've followed exactly the procedure...

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4) GNU/Linux installation
a) extract the .tar.gz archive
b) Be root
c) Be in the tomsrtbt-<version> directory
d) Have a blank floppy with no bad sectors
e) Do './install.s'
The script assumes you have ELF and that your 3.5" 1.44M floppy is on fd0.

* I've exited out of the desktop to the command prompt and entered "SUDO SU" to enable ROOT

* Then I mounted fd0 via "mount/dev/fd0"

* then when I try to do the command "./install.s", it says
"bash: ./install.s: No such file or directory"

any idea what I should do ??

so anyways... i boot back to the desktop environment, opened up emelfm and went to the directory where the program was extracted to. I've "ight-click" on install.s and selected the pull down menu Execute in xterm.. then it shows..

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don't forget to READ teh FAQ
Insert a blank writable 3.5" floppy diskette then strike ENTER"

when i hit ENTER it says..

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About to fdformat /dev/fd0u1722
/dev/fd0u17ss: Device or resource busy
FAILE fdformat error Enter to continue...

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Posted: Dec. 22 2005,01:12

update: (Pentium 75mhz + fd drive + 24MB ram + 1GB hd + external parallel port cdrom drive)

I've managed to install MSDOS 6.22 on my laptop, then, the the LPT parallel port external cdrom driver. Rebooted and I was able to change directory to the external cdrom drive (drive D).

Then copied the D:\KNOPPIX directory to C:\KNOPPIX.

Inserted the bootfloppy and actually got far .. as far as ..

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Autoconfiguring devices .. done
Mouse ..
Scanning for Harddisk Partitions and createing /etc/fstab .. done.
Network device ..
..
Checking for myDSL apps.. done
INIT: Entering runlevel:5
su(pam_unix)[736]: session opened for user dsl by (uid=0)
Using Xvesa default 1024x768x32 -mouse "/dev/psaux" mouse
xauth: creating new authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority
xauth: creating new authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority

givng up.
xinit: Broken pipe (errno 32): unable to connect to X server.
xinit: No such process (errno 3): unexpected signal 13
dsl@tty1[dsl$]_

but then what do i do now ? whats the next step ? Thanks in advance

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