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Posted: Jan. 27 2007,07:54 QUOTE
If your laptop will boot from a floppy then you don't need the BIOS option to boot from USB.

What happens is that the floppy boots linux24, then minirt24.gz and then looks "somewhere else" for the KNOPPIX file.

"Somewhere else" can be a cd, USB or hd, you just have to tell the floppy boot where to look - in your case, it seems either "fromusb", or "fromcd" would be the way to go.

So:

1. Extract /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX to your USB from the embedded version of DSL under windows using winzip.

or

2. Boot your desktop using the live cd and copy /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX to your USB using emelFM.

Once you have /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX on your USB, then use a text editor and open the file syslinux.cfg on the floppy and add the bootcode "fromusb" to the file as per my earlier post.

If everything has gone OK, when you boot from floppy it will load the knoppix image from your usb and you will be in business.

'Hope this helps.
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Posted: Jan. 27 2007,18:34 QUOTE
Heres what I did
I made a boot floppy and edited the file like you had me do so now it tries to read from the usb I extracted the knoppix file to the usb but the dsl searches through a bunch of drive names such as dev/hda those sorts but cant find the knoppix file.

I realize this is taking alot of your time I appreciate your help I have spent hours and hours and hours literally. trying to find how ot do this in laymans terms.  

I am currently on here from DSL! some success but I still havent got it to the laptop I think I figured out how to use the emelfm program but when copying to usb it says the operation is not permitted I used the super user emelfm from right clicking on dektop etc.  it only copied 2048 bytes. I tried it again copy from the cdrom it copied the 47.2mb or whatever it was and it wouldnt find it on the laptop.
You keep using /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX when i see the file in emelfm it is named KNOPPIX is this significant?
Again thank you for your help.
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Posted: Jan. 28 2007,03:33 QUOTE
Usually the file named KNOPPIX is in a folder named KNOPPIX - hence /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX.

If the boot floppy searches dev/hda etc, then you could try copying the KNOPPIX file to your hd and see if that works.
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