How do i boot the Knoppix CD from a floppy???

[Kumagoro]

I have an old compaq laptop which doesnt have a built in CD drive, but
has a external parallel one. Unfortunatly i cant boot from this so the
knoppix live cd doesnt work. Therefore how can i boot the cd from a
floppy? I can access dos and the cd drive works in DOS.

any info will be a help

cheers

[firebyrd10]

if you pop the knoppix cd in at windows a little web page shouled pop up. Select your lang. then scroll down intill you see something on making a boot floppy. Click the link.

[shougan]

In the cd there is a KNOPPIX folder there is an exe. called mkfloppy or something like that. Open this and go through it. It will make a boot floppy but u will still need the cd in the cd drive for it to get the info. Good luck

[Kumagoro]

cheers ill give it a try

[mcaycedo]

If you have enough space in your hd (at least 750 mb), you should try the poor man's install.

http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/HdBasedHowTo

In essence, copy the contents of the cd in your hd, and then, with a floppy disk boot the file in your hd. Must be ten times faster than knoppix over parallel port

[OErjan]

or use damn small linux for a poormans install. that is only 50Mb.
i is basicly a stripped down Knoppix. so not too fancy but...
here is the link for it.
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

[Kumagoro]

I managed to use mkfloppy to make a knoppix boot floppy which works
but unfortunatly it cannot see the cd drive as the drivers dont get loaded when i use the boot disk...

SO I have two options the HD install. I have read a bit using the above link the knoppix howto. but in order to install it says i have to boot the CD but i cant boot the CD in the first place.... Is there another way of installing it without booting into knoppix in the first place?

the second is to launch knoppix from ms dos is this possible if so how?

[shougan]

Try making it boot to the floopy then the cd then you hd, it might not see the cd.

[Bernd Blaauw]

if you have DOS installed on that machine,
load the cdrom-drivers,
copy the KNOPPIX directory (including files) to harddisk.
then, read the cheatcodes.

when booting the Knoppix diskette you'll need something like:
KNOPPIX FROMHD

exact syntax is mentioned on the cheatcodes textfile.
or maybe F2 or F3 when booting the diskette into Syslinux.

good luck

[Kumagoro]

OK i managed to get it to work.....

From windows XP on my desktop i enabled sharing of the CD drive.
Then from my laptop with win98 i copied the knoppix folder onto my
D: drive.

Then i followed the how to


http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/HdBasedHowTo

In my case i used 1.5

1.5 Run Microsoft Windows 98 or 95, copy Knoppix to HD & boot with loadlin
Open ISO with [WinImage] Extract extract the directory ISO:\KNOPPIX\ to C:\ (The C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX file should be 700MB)
Open the C:\KNOPPIX\boot.img with WinImage and extract vmlinuz and miniroot.img to C:\KNOPPIX\Loadlin (you will need to create this directory)
Download loadling 1.6c or later to C:\KNOPPIX}\Loadlin\ (remmember to extract it)
now reboot to DOS, you can do this by pressing F8 while rebooting the computer.
Change directory to the loadlin dir: "CD KNOPPIX\loadlin"
Execute loadlin "loadlin.exe vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 lang=en ro"


NOTE the last line is wrong it should be

loadlin.exe vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 initrd=miniroot.gz lang=en ro

booted up first time :D

as mine is on d: i put hda2 and it worked.