boot floppys

the thing is i looked on the klik site and i cant find gaim i can only find the orignal yahoo messenger for linux. but i want gaim because i can use msn with it not just yahoo.
but i can just make do with the yahoo messenger and web messenger.

thank you all for your ideas and help i will over the next few days do a bit more research on this to make sure i dont mess up anything

ok one last thing i can not get my sound card to work with knoppix ive tryed sound card config and this is what it says

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you dont seem to be running a kernel with modular sound enabled. (soundcore.o was not found in the module search path)/
to use sndconfig you must be running a kernel with modular sound such as the kernel shipped with debian GNU/linux or a 2.2 kernel, and sound must be compiled as modules

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what does this mean? how can i fix it?

ok i saved my configuration to a floppy tryed to boot with a range of things none of them work. the program its self says try to boot with myconfig=scan or myconfig=/dev/auto/floppy none work ive tryed aload of other things but they dont seem to work.

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Originally Posted by pureone

about installing kanotix. is there any documentation on it other thing then there german forum?

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Scroll down when you get there. The bottom half is in English.

jd

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Originally Posted by pureone

the thing is i looked on the klik site and i cant find gaim

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http://klik.atekon.de/details.php?se...t&package=gaim

jd

i installed kanotix no problems i got gaim with apt-get and i never really noticed the lower part of the kanotix forum was in english. thank you for your help

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Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman

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Originally Posted by pureone

.....any ideas?

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Don't make boot floppies. Make a Smart Boot Manager floppy, and use that to boot any bootable CD. Or install SBM or XOSL to your hard disk's MBR and be able to boot any bootable CD, any bootable hard drive partition and any bootable floppy without fooling with a boot floppy or changing BIOS settings at all, even on older machines that don't have proper BIOS support to boot from CD.

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Thanx very much for the suggestion to user Smart Boot Manager. It's helped me boot off my cd-rom on my new system .

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Originally Posted by justAnotherLinuxNewbie

Thanx very much for the suggestion to user Smart Boot Manager. It's helped me boot off my cd-rom on my new system .

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Thanks, it's good to hear that this actually helps people. I was starting to think that any post I made suggesting SBM as a solution to this problem would always get a response of something like "Oh, I don't want to have to learn to use a new tool". It's been happening a lot lately.