still hoping for some help.
I'm trying to run Knoppix on a, how shall we say, ancient system. The Bios is not equipped to handle a CD-Rom, so Smart BootManager doesn't detect it as a valid drive and won't let me boot from it. Are there any Linux-friendly programs that fit on a floppy, akin to MSCDex but without the MS part, which will enable the CD-Rom so I can boot from it?
still hoping for some help.
If it's that ancient, you might want to ask yourself if it's even worth trying to run Knoppix on it? Other things to look into:Originally Posted by yukichigai
- upgrade the BIOS
install a second hard drive
install a bootloader on the harddrive that can boot Knoppix from the harddrive
Good luck and let us know how things go.
Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org/
I'm with robert on this. For rescueing important data, I've gotten Knoppix from CD to boot to a command line (after entering MANY cheat codes) on a Pentium 100MHz 64 MB RAM. In my opinion, any older system that can not boot from the CD is only worthy of being hacked into a router or X terminal or perhaps just thrown out (recycled into parts). I would look into floppies for Slackware or Debian instead of CDRs. See Toms root boot floppy http://www.toms.net/rb/ as great example of the power of 1 floppy.
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