HD Install :: Live-CD, floppy, everything fails...

Yesterday I burned a copy of knoppix-std and it boots perfectly on this machine as is (from the SCSI CD-ROM). I wonder what the difference is between distros? I still want DSL since I can download the "mydsl's" to get more apps as they become available...

Eric

Looking at the description of Knoppix-std at distrowatch I see it was based on a Knoppix with kernel 2.4.21. Therefore I suspect it is a syslinux boot system.

Your issues, first no boot with isolinux. Since a Dual P-Pro is an older system and all scsi, it does not surprise me.

Second using the syslinux 0.8.0 boot floppy still does not have room for all the scsi modules. It really only supports ide-cdroms for machines that have their bios balking at using isolinux

I would guess that dsl-0.7.3, the last syslinux based version, would boot on your system.

This again brings up the issue, if an effort should be made to continue the 0.7.x series.

If you have the time and make the effort to download and try 0.7.3 please post your results here.

Apparently ISOLINUX sucks and SYSLINUX rocks. For me at least. 0.7.3 boots fine. Can I install 7.3 to my hd and then upgrade to 8.x?

I am looking for an answer to that last post. I think I know the answer but just want to see someone else type it.

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