toram and tohd worked great!! A few more questions??

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09-13-2003, 07:20 PM
rrolsbe

toram and tohd worked great!! A few more questions??

I downloaded the 9-5-2003 version and both the toram and tohd=hda1 worked great on my home machines. I made an ISO image of the Knoppix boot CD and tried to make a bootable DVD, with no luck. I used Nero 5 to make the iso and then burn the DVD. Has anyone successfully created a Knoppix bootable DVD using the CD ISO image? If so please elaborate. Since my DVD ROM reads at 16X the DVD should perform better than a CD in a CDROM. Also, what will happen if I mistakenly select the boot option "tohd=hda1" on a system that only has NTFS partitions? Hopefully the Knoppix boot CD is smart enough to not mount or write to an NTFS partition. IE.. If I used boot option "hd=hda1" it would fail if a FAT16, FAT32 or linux partitions were not available.

The toram option is way cool, much faster that running from the CDROM. Of course the CDROM load into memory takes about 5 minutes. A bootable DVD ROM should reduce the load time to ram.

Thank Much
Ron
09-24-2003, 11:24 PM
Lex

Have you already tried to use toram together with fromhd? That would load Knoppix fast too (I don't know whether it works).
09-24-2003, 11:29 PM
Stephen

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Originally Posted by Lex

Have you already tried to use toram together with fromhd? That would load Knoppix fast too (I don't know whether it works).

It works together in the Version 2003-09-22 and later.

Ron: Boot with the dma cheat code it is turned off that should speed the loading from the CD.
09-25-2003, 11:44 AM
Dave_Bechtel

Re: toram and tohd worked great!! A few more questions??

--I thnk you have an interesting idea, don't know if it's possible (ISO to DVD = bootable.) Googled a bit and found this, lemme know if it helps.

http://www.softlandmark.com/DVDRWriting2.htm

--You may have to do something like using the ISO and the boot.img file together to make the DVD bootable, I dunno.

Quote:

Originally Posted by rrolsbe

I downloaded the 9-5-2003 version and both the toram and tohd=hda1 worked great on my home machines. I made an ISO image of the Knoppix boot CD and tried to make a bootable DVD, with no luck. I used Nero 5 to make the iso and then burn the DVD. Has anyone successfully created a Knoppix bootable DVD using the CD ISO image? If so please elaborate. Since my DVD ROM reads at 16X the DVD should perform better than a CD in a CDROM. Also, what will happen if I mistakenly select the boot option "tohd=hda1" on a system that only has NTFS partitions? Hopefully the Knoppix boot CD is smart enough to not mount or write to an NTFS partition. IE.. If I used boot option "hd=hda1" it would fail if a FAT16, FAT32 or linux partitions were not available.

The toram option is way cool, much faster that running from the CDROM. Of course the CDROM load into memory takes about 5 minutes. A bootable DVD ROM should reduce the load time to ram.

Thank Much
Ron