No floppy and unable to boot from CD

[Dave_Bechtel]

--If you have Partition Magic, use it - after all, you paid for it! Just shorten one of your existing partitions and use PM to create a Linux swap partition. Where it ends up on the disk doesn't particularly matter, unless you're particular about how your partition table looks. PM will init the space too, and when you boot Knoppix again it will be autodetected and activated.

--Just asking; why not 800x600? 640 is *really* low-res these days. The only reason I'd use it myself would be on a laptop or something that didn't support anything higher...

I was thinking about scoring in on a boot floppy for the pcmcia nic card and booting from Lan in order to do this.

If that didn't work, then I would just simply yank the drive out and drop it in a usb2.0 laptop hard drive enclosure kit and make the partitions needed either after booting with Knoppix on my desktop or just firing up PMagic on Wincrapdoze.

The 640x480 worked perfectly. So did moving that knoppix file into a knoppix directory and booting from the floppy. I couldn't use a swap file from the fat32 drive where the knoppix directory and file were kept. I suppose, I should use all remaining space for a swap file. Granted, it takes a while to boot, the computer has been left on without crashing running knoppix.

Thanks again all.

[godsdog]

Actually, that's the extent of the resolution of the laptop. I know, it sounds weird, but with no monitor connected, that's it. Sure, it's kinda old, but what do you do?

It's nice that there is finally an operating system that can actually do something wonderful on almost any computer. I'll make the swap file and give it a go. Thanks to all for the help.