How to boot Knoppix 4.0.2 from a floppy?
I have a very old PC, I cannot go to the bios. (It's a Compaq DeskPro 2000, pentium 166). It has a floppy drive and a cd rom.
I also have a copy of Knoppix 4.0.2 on cd which I proved it is working on another PC. (that one can boot from the cd-rom).
Now, I try to run Knoppix from the old machine.
I read the FAQ, it says I can create 2 boot floppy disks by running mkbootfloppy.
So I boot up the Knoppix on the other PC and run the mkbootfloppy. The program starts but failed in the middle complaining about the floppy disk has problem. I know I try to format 1.44 M disk to 1.72 M. I tried all floppy I have on hand (not much, I only have 5 of them) Cannot make one work.
So I search the internet and find there is another solution. (the SBM).
I download the SBM and copy it to the floppy.
Put the SBM floppy and the Knoppix cd into the PC, turn on the machine.
After a while, the SBM screen appears. But I cannot find my CD rom from the list. Browse around the SBM application, and cannot find a way to boot from the cd-rom.
I have to confess here, I upgrade this PC cd-rom to a dvd-rom many years ago so I think the old machine does not see the dvd-rom. But if I boot the windows 95 from the harddisk, it can see the DVD rom.
The closest one I can find from the SBM application is that there is a screen asking me to put it two hex numbers for the cd-rom, but I don't know what numbers I should be enter here.
Any one can help? Or is there any other way beside the two I mentioned above?
Rgds,
Chip
Re: How to boot Knoppix 4.0.2 from a floppy?
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Originally Posted by chip.ling
I read the FAQ, it says I can create 2 boot floppy disks by running....
You read the wrong FAQ, That is old, out of date information. See answer #1, read the booting from floppy information there and you'll have much better results. Can you give me a link to the information that told you to make 2 floppies? Maybe I can fix it or at least include the information to the one floppy method that never needs new floppies and virtually always works.
Re: How to boot Knoppix 4.0.2 from a floppy?
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Originally Posted by chip.ling
I have a very old PC, I cannot go to the bios. (It's a Compaq DeskPro 2000, pentium 166).
It is not clear to me what I cannot go to the bios means. Compaq used some strange keyboard combinations to get to the BIOS, not the standard DEL at boot time, but you should be able to find the proper code. The information should be on-line at the Compaq site. Of course. the BIOS might not even have a boot from CD option, but you'll have to get to it to know.