I am trying to boot knoppix 4.0.2 on an old Dell laptop (pentium 166). It has no option to boot from cd. I tried the mkbootfloppy command using another computer, but the progress bar goes to like 110% on the first floppy, then it prompts for the second floppy. Knoppix tells me the disks were created successfully but then I have a problem booting. The first disk loads, but near the end I see the prompt to insert the second floppy, then something about my keyboard, then mouse, then a blank prompt. At this point I put in the second floppy and hit enter, and it says something like Found root block 0, then something about about a filesystem error (err=2).

Any ideas how i can fix this or how I can get a working pair of boot/root floppies? I also tried using the 4.0.1 DVD to make the floppies with the same result.

I tried to use Smart Boot Manager but it can't boot my cdrom. That's a whole other story.