Noobe - how to run cd image from hd

[katolo]

so if I create a 700 mb FAT32 partition then I can use.... btw I'm using Win Xp

[Stephen]

so if I create a 700 mb FAT32 partition then I can use.... btw I'm using Win Xp

Yes but you might want the partition to be a GB or so.

[WebbPA]

Can someone walk through Jorge's batch file?

I tried lang=en and lang=us but kde always comes up n German.

And I'd like to add a wheelmouse statement but it didn't work.

[A. Jorge Garcia]

I have the lang=en parameter in knoppix.bat, but I don't think you need it if you extract vmlinuz and miniroot.gz from boot-en.img.

Regards,

[Dave_Bechtel]

--Good stuff. You may want to copy the commandline stuff from the knoppix bootfloppy into your loader tho:

APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi vga=791 initrd=miniroot.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix

--Ah, the pain of posting from Windoze; I had to ftp the latest knoppix ISO over to another machine and loopback mount both the iso and the boot.img just to get that... (couldn't find the boot floppy)

--BTW, there is a way to enable DOS in winME; you just have to google for it. It involves downloading some replacement files, YMMV. (This is why I'm still running 98SE. MS gets more evil every rev...)

--Those running Win9x are advised to shutdown into MSDOS mode before booting Knoppix, otherwise you are probably in for a Scandisk when you run Win again - due to the HD "dirty bit" left on from an un-clean shutdown. (You're basically taking the rug out from under Windoze otherwise, and leaving it badly confused. "Anybody get the # of that truck?"

OK, I figured out how to run KNOPPIX with neither the CD nor the boot floppy from the hdd without knx-hdinstall. I don't like knx-hdinstall as you loose all the KNOPPIX autodetection stuff!

Here are my steps (only for WIN95/98/ME):
(1) On your M$ WINDOZE box, mine is WINME, create a directory called c:\KNOPPIX.

(2) Copy from d:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX, the huge 690MB file on the KNOPPIX CD already burned from an ISO, to c:\KNOPPIX.

(3) Copy the files vmlinuz and miniroot.gz from the boot floppy, already rawritten from boot-en.img, to c:\KNOPPIX.

(4) Download a copy of loadlin.exe to c:\KNOPPIX from the net.

(5) Write the following batch file in Notepad, save as knoppix.bat in c:\KNOPPIX, its all one line.

loadlin.exe vmlinuz lang=en init=/etc/init initrd=miniroot.gz quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix

(6) In WIN95 or 98, make a shortcut for knoppix.bat on your desktop. You can't run a batch file in real-mode DOS with WINME, you have to run knoppix.bat from the rescue disk in console mode....

(7) Click on this shortcut and viola KNOPPIX boots faster from your hdd than from your CD, and it still autodetects everything and resides in the ramdisk.

BTW, one side effect is that you cannot mount your hdd as its busy reading from KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX just as the CD used to be tied up.

Also, if you do not want to rawrite the boot floppy or burn the CD, you can mount the ISO and IMG to extract the files KNOPPIX, vmlinuz and miniroot.gz (but you need a Linux box for this already - which came first the penguin or the egg???).

[A. Jorge Garcia]

>>
--BTW, there is a way to enable DOS in winME; you just have to google for it. It involves downloading some replacement files, YMMV. (This is why I'm still running 98SE. MS gets more evil every rev...)
<<

"Yes, most evil it is," says Yoda.

>>
--Those running Win9x are advised to shutdown into MSDOS mode before booting Knoppix, otherwise you are probably in for a Scandisk when you run Win again - due to the HD "dirty bit" left on from an un-clean shutdown.
<<

I used to do this in a WIN95 lab with Slackware Linux BigSlack without a problem. The way around it is to right click your batch icon (which is a shortcut to the batch file I copy to the desktop) and set something in advanced features. I don't have a WIN95 box around right now, but its something about running in DOS mode.

Regards,

[katolo]

I followed this guide.... and added this line in Boot.ini:

f:\knoppix\knoppix.bat="Knoppix"

when i reboot and I want to start knoppix I get an error which says that the harddrive ain't ready... or something like that.... anyway to fix this?

I'm using Win XP.. all my partitions are NTFS execept for F:\ which is FAT32

[A. Jorge Garcia]

Like I said, I would only try this on FAT32 with DOS RealMode.

Regards,

[katolo]

I made an Win ME bootdisk and started it with that..... And want just to say it's crap..... dosen't get any faster because it's on the HD.... ahhh... back to old CD ....

[garyng]

I made an Win ME bootdisk and started it with that..... And want just to say it's crap..... dosen't get any faster because it's on the HD.... ahhh... back to old CD ....

You must have a very fast CD, The difference for me is night and day(HD based vs CD based) but then mine is the cheapo 24x one.