I have a 486-66mhz PC (1992 or 1993 vintage) that I dug out recently. I am trying to load Knoppix using a floppy. I used rawrite and created the boot floppy. Knoppix goes throught the boot process up until it scans for the CDROM. It cant find the CDROM then drops me into the "very limited shell" mode.

I tried doing a search on this problem, but all of the answers I found didn't really address how to get Knoppix to recognize the CDROM. I know the CDROM works, because I have WIN95 loaded on the HD, and I can read CD's from Windows. Also, I know the Knoppix CD is burned correctly, because I have another PC that is CD-bootable, and this Knoppix CD worked fine on that PC.

I don't really want to copy Knoppix to the HD and boot off the HD, at least not yet. For now I'd like to get it to boot from CD.