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Posted: Jan. 26 2007,08:27 QUOTE
I have a inspiron 3200 lappy with no USb boot and no cdrom I made a boot disk which got me to the "welcome to DSL" it says cant find knoppix filesystem press reset button to quit.

What do I need to do to get DSL on this machine?
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Posted: Jan. 26 2007,13:49 QUOTE
You can copy the KNOPPIX image to your usb stick (works for me) or hd (maybe) and then tell the bootloader to look there for it.

The syslinux.cfg file on my boot floppy looks like this (note the "fromusb")

DEFAULT linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init fromusb toram lang=us noapm apm=off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz frugal noapm apm=off nomce noapic quiet restore=sda1 mydsl=sda1 BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
TIMEOUT 300
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Posted: Jan. 26 2007,19:53 QUOTE
I forgot to mention the laptop has no OS it just has a bios i upgraded to latest bios hoping it might support USB booting but it doesnt.
How do I copy the image? I tried it but it doesnt find knoppix on my usb drive. I tried making a live cd to boot on my desktop and then make the usb drive but the cd doesnt boot.  I made it just as it says to I downloaded the current iso then used roxio to make a boot disc. it doesnt work.

I have tried reading through just about every tutorial there is on the DSL wiki and it is really confusing for a newb like me. I really need a tutorial step by step on how to do it not some vague explanation that assumes I know tons of stuff. IF its easier please direct me to a DSL site for newbs.
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Posted: Jan. 27 2007,04:29 QUOTE
I'm guessing you have windows on your desktop - if this is the case, you can download the zip file for the embedded version of DSL.

Once you have the zip file, you can extract the knoppix image and place it on your USB stick - the floppy "fromusb" boot should then work on your laptop
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Posted: Jan. 27 2007,07:17 QUOTE
I dont think my laptop will boot from usb because the bios doesnt list it as an option in the boot order. It will recognize a usb drive though when I boot from floppy disk. I just need to figure out the technique to getting the right files on the USB.

I got a live cd to work in my desktop it will go into the DSL os and it seems to work but figuring out how to get it onto USB to install to laptop is impossible.
I tried using my laptop hard drive adapter to put the harddrive in my desktop but that didnt work.
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