Starting Knoppix from Windows 2000

**pnti** · 05-04-2003, 01:08 PM

[quote="Dave_Bechtel"]>There are many things that I have to learn.

--Not to be rude, but it looks like "BACKUPS" is one of them...

And patience

I simply tried to install old MS-DOS using original MS disks. I didn't expect that 3 small floppies would (?) remove everyting data, partitions, etc.

I have almost forgotten what is MS-DOS.

**monkeyman** · 05-04-2003, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by pnti

It took me two nights, loss of all my data (10GB of programs and documments) but it is working.

THE system can be selected from Windows2000 startup menu and it is working fine.

I did it as you suggested: I have a DOS on hda1, Windows on hda2 and I use loadlin to load Knoppix from DOS.

I was not able to install lilo to start Knoppix from hda7 partition. There are many things that I have to learn.

w.

Geeze, I never intended for you to lose all of your data. I do hope you didn't lose anything too terribly important.

**pnti** · 05-04-2003, 06:43 PM

Geeze, I never intended for you to lose all of your data. I do hope you didn't lose anything too terribly important.

Hi !

Thanks for your letter. I lost my data because i DIDN'T FOLLOW YOUR ADVICE. I wanted to it faster and better - without any experiencie. No problem it seems that there was nothing really important on the disk.

w.

**StyleWarz** · 05-04-2003, 09:39 PM

I'm very sorry you lost your data...

Please always create backups when you're playing around with Linux!!!
Follow my advise and you're never lose your data.

Have a nice day,

StyleWarz

**oscar** · 05-05-2003, 04:07 AM

Originally Posted by monkeyman

You now have a bootable C:\ partion. Copy MINIROOT.GZ and VMLINUZ from a Knoppix boot disk and the loader loadlin.exe to C:\. Create an Autoexec.bat that contains the following lines:

@echo off
cls
loadlin.exe vmlinuz init=/etc/init lang=us initrd=miniroot.gz quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix

A caveat: I have yet to figure out how to get Persistant Home to be detected at boot as you are not presented with a knoppix prompt for cheat codes.

...but you already know how...put cheatcodes in loadlin (lang=us is a cheat code...)

loadlin.exe vmlinuz init=/etc/init lang=us floppyconfig keyboard=de .... etc etc etc

cheers

**monkeyman** · 05-05-2003, 02:42 PM

...but you already know how...put cheatcodes in loadlin (lang=us is a cheat code...)

loadlin.exe vmlinuz init=/etc/init lang=us floppyconfig keyboard=de .... etc etc etc

cheers

I also discovered from another thread ( http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2273 ) that I can also use a parameter file, loadlin.par, to load the cheat codes as well. Lots of options. Thanks for the tip.

**Tortoise** · 05-23-2003, 10:38 PM

Forgive me if I missed something, but I think there is a safe and simple way to boot from floppy.
Don't you just use sbminst (dowload the two files, copy them to a floppy, and run the .exe, it creates a boot floppy that will scan your partitions for potentially bootable entities, and let you choose.
Then install linux, but not lilo or grub.
Shazam.
The machine boots to win, unless the floppy is in the drive, in which case it boots to wherever you like.

**casterman** · 05-23-2003, 11:17 PM

i am using knoppix cd the machine has also a hd with windows. can I run my windows sytem and knoppix at the same time. any suggestion is welcome. i have a license to vmware but can vine work to do that ?
thanks
Kemal

**Tortoise** · 05-23-2003, 11:43 PM

What do you mean by 'at the same time'? I presume you mean at different times, but having both os's resident on the machine?
If so, the answer is yes, but how will depend on what version of windows you have, what format your drive partitions are, and what vmware and vine are.