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Topic: sbpcd, drivers for sbpcd cdrom

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antani

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Posted: May 01 2005,19:46

I want to install dsl on my old pc but I have a cdrom creative on a soundblaster and DSL don't find it .
what can I do ?
thanks

cbagger01

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Posted: May 01 2005,20:16

Boot into your old OS (Windows or DOS+CDROM) and manually copy the \knoppix\knoppix file over from the CD into your C:\ drive so you have:

C:\knoppix\knoppix

Note the lowercase letters.

Then download the dsl floppy image from the website and get rawrite2 or rawrite32 program and use it to create a boot floppy.

Even though your cdrom will not be automatically detected, it will find the knoppix file on your hard drive and behave like your hard drive is the DSL livecd.

antani

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Posted: May 01 2005,20:27

Thank you firts of all.....
I haven't dos ... I have linux ( Slackware ) on this pc ....
I copied KNOPPIX in /dev and then I boot with floppy boot of dsl ( 0.8) but the option at the boot dsl fromhd.... doesn't work ...

cbagger01

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Posted: May 02 2005,02:16

If you have linux, then you can do the same thing.

IE:

Copy /knoppix/knoppix

over from the cd into your first partition, IE:

/knoppix/knoppix in /dev/hda1

for example.

all lowercase letters are needed.

The boot floppy should still work.

You don't need to specify the boot from hd option, it should still find your knoppix file anyways.

antani

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Posted: May 02 2005,11:56

I copied KNOPPIX in dev/hda1 ( I have this file not "knoppix" with lowercase in my directory KNOPPIX) but when I start with boot disk it can't find the dsl filesystem ( also with instruction found in F2 ).....
Why ?

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