Other Help Topics :: boot from a zip drive & floppy

I have updated the boot floppy, boot-0.8.0.img, with clacker's mods for booting from a zip drive.
http://ibiblio.org/pub....8.0.img

I have also updated the site faq with his howto:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/faq.html

i know it can be really stupid but i can't boot from zipdrive (ide zipdrive).
it's impossible for dsl to found the root ...
i have got a zip with fat filesystem and i boot the system with loadlin.
my system start directly from the zipdrive (with floppy emulation).
this is a Dell optiplex GX1 pIII @ 450Mhz & 192 Mo of ram
each time i start i have got this message :
...
hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
...
Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
Press reset button to quit.

then zipdrive appear to be found bythe system

Someone can help me ?

Is the zip drive storage partition called "hdd" or "hdd1" inside your mount.app window, or in the /mnt directory?

When I made the boot disk it was for a 100 Meg parallel port drive.

on your ide zip drive did you have a knoppix directory with a knoppix file in it? How did you make the zip disk? what files were on it?

So i had all files from cd and more because i have tried with the files of the usb-boot-image.
in the first step i have got a zip floppy freshly formated as fat with win98 and the microsoft boot system (sorry but i'm a newbie and i don't know how can i format a zip floppy with dsl and the capabilitie to booting on)
after that i have installed loadlin and was able to boot dsl from a command line (a batch file in reality) but the system was unable to found the KNOPPIX file ($zipdrive/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX)
So if someone got a solution from fat zip or from ext2 zip ...

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