I just installed a new lab of 25 Dell Optiplex GX270s using the "Poor Man's Dual Boot" and this DOSBootFloppy method.

In my old lab, I used paired down WIN98 rescue disks plus the following autoexec.bat:

c:
cd c:\knoppix
loadlin vmlinuz ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=en vga=791 initrd=miniroot.gz quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix

That was for booting off hda1. Now I'm booting off hda5 and the vga=791 cheat had to be replaced with vga=normal screen=1024x768 xvrefresh=60. Otherwise I was stuck with 640x480 resolution. I can't get sound to work on these PCs, but I'll live for now. So I installed 20030726 (see http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=21881) and used the following autoexec.bat from a WINXP boot disk:

d:
cd d:\knoppix
loadlin vmlinuz ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=en vga=normal screen=1024x768 xvrefresh=60 initrd=miniroot.gz quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix

I hate these onboard intell chips for video and sound. If anyone has problems with these video chips, maybe this will help. Anyone know how to deal with the sound chip? alsa didn't help....

Regards,