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GrimSoldier
06-14-2006, 07:21 PM
System Specs are:
(Toshiba Atellite Pro 420CDT
24Mb Ram
4 Gig Harddrive
Primary OS Winows 95)

On startup tried to locate area so i could boot off cd but couldnt find one.
Harry Kuhman
06-14-2006, 07:54 PM
Wow, I'm impressed that a system with this little RAM (20 or 24 megs, not clear which) even has a CD drive.

The BIOS on this system likely pre-dates the el-toro standard so it has no concept of booting from a CD.

I expect that you could coax the computer to boot by either making a SBM floppy or installing SBM on the hard disk MBR (respectable size hard disk by the way considering the other specs). I would try first with the floppy and only install to MBR if it worked and you wanted to avoid using a flopopy all of the time. See answer #1 (http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/User:Harry_Kuhman) for more info. Being able to boot CDs will be a handy thing to get working on this box.

I doubt that it will be enough memory for Knoppix though. Certainly not enough for Knoppix with a GUI. Try knoppix 2 as a cheat code to boot into a command shell only and see if even that works. You may also need other cheat codes for things like disabling DMA and the like. See the cheat codes section of the wiki for more details.
maxIT
06-14-2006, 07:54 PM
My 2cent is: boot an old 2.4 kernel vers. (knoppix 3.4 or 3.7) and use the follow cheatcode at boot knoppix 1 vga=normal to be prompted in the text mode without frame-buffer.
GrimSoldier
06-14-2006, 08:04 PM
thank you for your help now i just have to find the floppy disc extension lol
Harry Kuhman
06-14-2006, 08:11 PM
Google is your friend. (http://www.google.com/search?q=smart+boot+manager&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official)
maxIT
06-15-2006, 09:35 AM
Google is your friend. (http://www.google.com/search?q=smart+boot+manager&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official)

hehe, I think it's time for an acronymus (http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/), something like GIYF :lol:
lambrou
04-16-2007, 02:15 PM
Can i modify any NTFS hard disk witch has windows installed on it via KNOPPIX o/s?
Just copy, paste, delete or motify files?

Thanks a lot.
Harry Kuhman
04-16-2007, 03:32 PM
Can i modify any NTFS hard disk .....
I would never edit or delete anything on NTFS partition with Knoppix. But maybe that's just because I hate to have all of my data corrupted. Or to think it worked and only discover the corruption much later.

Your post doesn't seem to have anything to do with the topic of this thread.