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Posted: Oct. 08 2004,13:50 QUOTE
Hi there,

I try to install dsl to an old P120-Compaq laptop, which is unable to boot from CD. So I copied the content of the dsl cd to Windows c:\ and made a boot floppy. But when I boot from the floppy, it says that it can't find any bootable partitions and leaves me to the "very limited shell".

I md5summed all downloaded isos and the cd/ floppy, the directory structure on hd is the same like the one on cd....

Any ideas what could I could do?

TIA

Cheerz Lars
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Posted: Oct. 08 2004,15:22 QUOTE
Quote (Moppedboy @ Oct. 08 2004,09:50)
Hi there,

I try to install dsl to an old P120-Compaq laptop, which is unable to boot from CD. So I copied the content of the dsl cd to Windows c:\ and made a boot floppy. But when I boot from the floppy, it says that it can't find any bootable partitions and leaves me to the "very limited shell".

I md5summed all downloaded isos and the cd/ floppy, the directory structure on hd is the same like the one on cd....

Any ideas what could I could do?

TIA

Cheerz Lars

Did you copy the knoppix file, or the KNOPPIX dir straight to the C:\ drive..

I believe it must have the knoppix file inside the KNOPPIX dir for it to boot properly

Brian
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Posted: Oct. 08 2004,15:33 QUOTE
Yes I copied / from the cd to c:\ so /KNOPPIX is direcly in the root of c:\ and the knoppix file (don't remember the exact name) is in c:\KNOPPIX . Maybe I should copy the Knoppix file to c:\?

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Posted: Oct. 08 2004,15:35 QUOTE
What did you use to copy it?
I use a virtual cdrom program like "daemon tools" or "alcohol 120" to extract the stuff from the .iso and then transfer over to my c:\ drive

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Posted: Oct. 09 2004,19:04 QUOTE
Just did an
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xcopy E:\KNOPPIX C:\KNOPPIX
and everything works now. Maybe I made a mistake during the first copying.

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