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Congratulations on your 4.0 release!
I've been a lerker/follower, even donated, for years now and remain impressed on how much this small distro can do.
I burn each release as it comes out to a hockey rink CDR and then give it away each time a revision is released.

Silly question but dont know how to resolve this... When I put the DSL 4.0 CD in my CD drive and boot, it finds the existing DSL 3.4 image on /dev/hda3 where I had frugal installed DSL earlier and boots into DSL 3.4. How do I force it to boot from the CD instead of from the hard disk? Is there some cheat code I need to use? I have already set up my bios to first check the cd before the harddisk when booting.

Typically the boot process tries to boot from cdrom.
The boot code to specify where the KNOPPIX images resides is:

dsl fromhd=/dev/hda1

It would be unusual to have to specify

dsl fromhd=/dev/scd0

Could it be that you usually require the Syslinux cdrom version?
Many older machines require a syslinux version of the cdrom in order to boot.

I will be creating the alternate editions of DSL v4.0 shortly.
These include:

dsl-4.0-syslinux.iso
dsl-4.0-initrd.iso
dsl-4.0-embedded.zip (Qemu)
dsl-4.0-vmx.zip

Thanks Robert. I tried dsl fromhd=/dev/scd0 but it still does not work.

I am able to pop in my old DSL liveCD (DSL 3.4, the regular iso image, not the syslinux version) and type the following to boot from the CD:
dsl ide1=0x180,0x386 pci=off

I have always had to type the above cheat code to boot from a liveCD because I use a Sony Vaio PCG SR33 laptop which is quite old. But when I use the same cheatcode with DSL 4.0 liveCD the screen goes blank the caps lock light and another light next to it starts blinking simultaneously and nothing happens. And when I dont use any cheatcode with this new DSL liveCD then it does not find the CDROM drive when scanning all devices for the image and drops me to a (very limited) shell.

Is this because my laptop cannot handle the new Kernel?

o...I forgot to mention in the earlier post that I now reformated the /dev/hda3 where I had earlier had a frugal install of DSL 3.4. So now when I try to boot without any cheat code, and when it starts scanning all devices for the knoppix image, it does not find even the older version of DSL in hda3 and drops me to the very limited shell.

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