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Hi
at first sorry for my english
i have a small 386 machine with coprocessor booting from floppydisk works until it tries to look for the CD. the errormessage: /linuxrc: cannot create /: is a directory
i tried the bootoptions for hardware reduction, but no effect.
when i disconnected the CD the rescuelinux starts. thanks for help
matthu
Ver 2.0What kind of CD drive do you have? - many old boxes used special connectors (not IDE) which DSL may not support. An alternative may be to take out the disk, put it into a newer PC (disconnect all other hard disks), install DSL and finally put the disk back.Hi thanks for the fast answer its a brand new CD drive and its connected to the IDE Bus. i get the errormessage also when there is no CD in the drive. I burned the CD two time with two images from two mirrors .... :-|
did anybody see this errormessage before? /linuxrc: cannot create /: is a directory
sorry for my english again matthuI think... that your PC doesn't support ATAPI devices (like newer CD-ROM drives)
Does that PC have a network card? you might try a HD-to-HD install on itTry booting your old OS, like say MSDOS for example.
Copy the KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX from the CDROM over to C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX