Boot from DOS

[DavidTempler]

I have managed to boot Knoppix from DOS (as per A.Jorge Garcia) but it boots in German.How do I change to English and is it possible to boot from 98SE desktop.....
I have read of a boot-en.img but do not know where to find it.

Can I use cheatcodes and if so how?

[A. Jorge Garcia]

If you used an EN version of the KNOPPIX ISO to burn your CD, then boot.img has everything you need on the CD in /KNOPPIX.

Remember: (btw, I put loadlin.exe to my boot floppy)

boot cd
mount /cdrom/KNOPPIX/boot.img tmp -o loop
cp /mnt/floppy/loadlin.exe /mnt/hda1/KNOPPIX
cp tmp/vmlinuz /mnt/hda1/KNOPPIX
cp tmp/miniroot.gz /mnt/hda1/KNOPPIX
cp /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX /mnt/hda1/KNOPPIX

I get the US keyboard and ENglish language by default this way.

Good Luck!

[DavidTempler]

Hi Again ,Will this work with a poormans install and do you do above in a shell under Knoppix ?

I am sorry to go on but I am very Green!!!!! and you seem to know what you are doing

Why is this information not as say an FAQ or DOC maybe even a addition to Knoppix CD,as many people seem to be having the same problem!!


Thanks Again for your help

Dave.

[A. Jorge Garcia]

Well, how are you installing PoorMan?

If you can boot the CD directly:
boot cd
mount /cdrom/KNOPPIX/boot.img tmp -o loop
cp /mnt/floppy/loadlin.exe /mnt/hda1/KNOPPIX
cp tmp/vmlinuz /mnt/hda1/KNOPPIX
cp tmp/miniroot.gz /mnt/hda1/KNOPPIX
cp /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX /mnt/hda1/KNOPPIX

If you boot from kernel bootdisk:
boot cd with kernel bootdisk
cp /mnt/floppy/loadlin.exe /mnt/hda1/KNOPPIX
cp /mnt/floppy/vmlinuz /mnt/hda1/KNOPPIX
cp /mnt/floppy/miniroot.gz /mnt/hda1/KNOPPIX
cp /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX /mnt/hda1/KNOPPIX

In either case you can boot the new "install" (without the CD) with the kernel bootdisk. However, I would recommend the FastDOSbootdisk.

Regards,

[DavidTempler]

Hi Again,

I did the Poorman's install by following the DOCS..HDinstall

copied Knoppix from CD to HD (hda1)

copied files from boot-disk to Knoppix folder

Booted using a DOS batch file...

I can get it run in German! and I have no cheat codes to use...

Booting from floppy works ... quicker but is unstable..

I do think Knoppix was not really designed to run from HD in its compressed form.
Maybe running Virtually as CD but from HD would work.....

D.Templer

[A. Jorge Garcia]

What boot disk are you using? If you are using the kernel boot disk created by rawrite, then make sure you use boot-en.img to make your boot disk. Barring that, use the cheatcode "knoppix lang=us" during boot up.

BTW, I use this set up every day at school with all my students (75) in all my programming classes (4) in all my Pentium Labs (3) and everything runs great! I'm using V3.1 2003.0101, however, as I can't get V3.2 to work without crashing when I configure a printer and print from KATE....

Did you see these links?

FastDOSbootfloppy
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2273

Poor Man's Dual Boot
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2192

Good Luck,

[DavidTempler]

Hi ,
I am using 3.2 which is a little unstable (old PC does not help!).I will sit and read suggested threads.I used loadlin from my Red Hat distro.
It does work as you say but under WIN98SE you have to run boot from DOS prompt.I think a boot floppy in my case is O.K. as I do not really use it for anything else.
I am not sure about 3.1 but I think it comes with Gnome which is much smaller and I would rather run it unpacked on its own partition if space was not a problem (1gb maybe).
A lot of what is with Knoppix most people would never use so if given the chance then I would go for a real install every time.

Thanks Again For All Your Time & Help

David Templer