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Topic: Dual boot, Win95/DSL 6,

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walnut

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Posted: June 13 2004,07:11

Hey, i dwnloaded DSL and ran it several times on my destop top, might i just say its sweet!. anyway i have a laptop that is happily running windows 95, and has 2 HDD partitions:

1. 550Mb ( c: )
2. 80Mb ( d: )

i originally used the 80Mb to store the install files for win95 (i installed from floppies, and held the install files there to make future install easy) and have since decided i dont need them.

The Question:
I would like to know how to install DSL onto d:, i have borrowed a cd-rom drive (PCMCIA), but my laptop wont boot from it, i can read the CD under windows though. is there some way that i can copy the DSL files to d: under windows, and setup a floppy disk that needs to be inserted whenever i want to run DSL, (ie: bott from floppy loads DSL, boot without out floppy loads windows)

Thanx for help in advance
-walnut

pvdvyve

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Posted: June 13 2004,19:09

Hay Walnut, you can make a "poorman's install":
Try searching the forum.
Choose the search button at the top of this page.
Try keyword "poor" for poor-mans install help (CDROM-like install)
Or try keyword "frugal" for frugal install (automated CDROM-like install to hard disk)
then choose "ALL FORUMS"
and "search from the beginning" all messages "or newer"
Good Luck.
PS:(This message was used before by: cbagger01, and he got a point.)

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Greetings from pvdvyve "Belgium-Europe"
... just another Linux user ...

walnut
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Posted: June 14 2004,01:38

HEy, thanks for that, i had a look through the old posts and didn't really find what i was after, but now i have, thanks for pointing me in the right direction

walnut

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Posted: June 14 2004,09:51

aaahhh, i really need more help, i have copied the \knoppix folder to C:\ under windows. And following my assumptions about what to do attempted the creation of a boot floppy.

this is what i attempted (as it is what i understood to be coorect):

1 formatted a 1.44Mb floppy (came out as 1.38Mb)
2 accessed the \knoppix folder on the CD
3 Sent the files "boot.img" and "boot.cat" to the a: drive!! (but they total 1.40Mb in size and wouldn't fit)

is this right?, and if not is there a program (not necessarily linux) that i can put on a floppy to force my laptop to boot from a PCMCIA CD-rom ?.

(major n00b question) oh and just because it is buggin the crap outta me, when someone in the forums says use this code to mount USB drive:
#mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive
what program do you type it into, i have only been using DSL to surf the net, as dillo seems faster than Internet Explorer.

cbagger01

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Posted: June 14 2004,16:47

It is not possible to get a good boot floppy by copying the boot.img file over.

You need a computer program called "rawrite" or similar style program. This program is used to output a raw floppy disk image over to a floppy disk drive.

You can get a copy of rawrite here:

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub....otdisks

Be sure to download the correct version for your operating system. IE: rawrite.exe for DOS/Win9x, rawritent.exe for Windows NT, rawritexp.exe for Windows XP.

Good Luck

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