Quote Originally Posted by Woody Ochs
Quote Originally Posted by rph111745
FWIW, I now have 3.7 working on the machine that I need the floppyconfig. But only with the 2.4 kernal, I tried with 2.6 kernal and got the same errors that showed up in 3.8. So it might be something inherent to the 2.6 kernal or something left out in the kernal setup.
Great. This gets us somewhere. Does anyone else know how to narrow the scope of this problem even more? Let's forget about fixing it for now but just try to isolate it as much as possible.
I run KANOTIX, which is based on KNOPPIX. It says it has the 2.6.11.11 kernal. With KANOTIX the use of floppy for the configuration files works just fine.

P.S. I have never got it to work (using floppy for config files) with KNOPPIX v. 3.9 -- just like you guys.
.................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ...........

Added in EDIT mode: By the way you can talk to "KANO" on his forum : http://forum.kanotix.net/viewtopic.p...asc&highlight= and he discusses updating the kernal at the site
http://kanotix.com/files/kernel/ . He might tell you about this bug that exists in KNOPPIX.