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Topic: running from iso, doesn't work

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_pathos

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Posted: Oct. 26 2005,22:41

Hi I have a toshiba 110cs laptop with two partitions:

/dev/hda1 - fat16 (win95)
/dev/hda2 - fat32

I've put the dsl iso on both of them as KNOPPIX.iso and I just can't get it to work.

I've tried
dsl bootfrom=/dev/hda1/KNOPPIX.iso
dsl bootfrom=/dev/hda2/KNOPPIX.iso
dsl bootfrom=/dev/hdax/KNOPPIX.iso

even when it scans the drives it doesn't seem to notice anything.

the partitions work fine because I've been formatting/mounting them with tomsrtbt.

I always get a "Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem error".

_pathos

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Posted: Oct. 26 2005,22:52

OMFG ... I copied the knoppix directory from the iso to hda1 AND ITS WORKING....

should I convert hda2 to linux swap? because I've only got 24mb memory and its taking a looooonnng time...

_pathos

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Posted: Oct. 26 2005,23:30

...i can't believe it, my pcmcia cdrom works....

brianw

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Posted: Oct. 27 2005,01:34

Here is a link that discusses what you are doing (known as a frugal install) and has a link to some docs.

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=9271

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