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Posted: Oct. 16 2006,03:50 QUOTE
Downloaded bootfloppy.img 1.4m. Unable to copy it to a floppy. Error: "too large for floppy". Floppy shows 1.38 space.
Any suggestions how I can get it on a floppy?
TIA.
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Posted: Oct. 16 2006,14:34 QUOTE
How are you copying it to the floppy?

Windows: use rawrite
Linux: use dd

See boot floppies under the wiki for more info
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Posted: Oct. 16 2006,16:27 QUOTE
Thanks.
Now have boot floppy.
But now after splash screen I get "Can't find Knoppix file system. Dropping you to a (very limited) shell. Press reset button to quit."
"Additional builtin commands available: cat mount umount insmod rmmod lsmod"
Knoppix#".
What to do now?.
Many thanks for your assistance.
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Posted: Oct. 16 2006,16:29 QUOTE
Forgot to add that I copied all files from the cd to a KNOPPIX  directory.
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Posted: Oct. 16 2006,17:18 QUOTE
Wondering if I should download syslinux.The cd I have is isolinux. Maybe that's why it can't find the files. As you can tell I'm very new to Linux.
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