Hopefully The Last Knoppix Topic

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heh.. I know there's a few of these topics but I've tried everything I could find in this forum and others to get Knoppix working (3.8.1). So here's some info, as detailed as I can make it.

I first attempted the method described here. I recieved an error about missing the KNOPPIX file system. So I decided to do some searching. I managed to solve that problem (I don't recall how, heh) so it would go to the Knoppix menu but recieved an error when trying to install windows about ntdll.dll.

My latest attempt involved placing KNOPPIX in the root directory (actually, I placed the KNOPPIX folder in the \SETUP\) folder. I then took the \boot\isolinux folder from the KNOPPIX cd and extracted the the \BOOT\modules\isolinux folder. I edited isolinux.cfg to show the following:

DEFAULT linux
APPEND knoppix_dir=SETUP/KNOPPIX ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
TIMEOUT 300

PROMPT 1
DISPLAY boot.msg
F1 boot.msg
F2 f2
F3 f3
LABEL knoppix
KERNEL linux
APPEND knoppix_dir=SETUP/KNOPPIX ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL expert
KERNEL linux
APPEND knoppix_dir=SETUP/KNOPPIX ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt.gz nomce BOOT_IMAGE=expert
LABEL memtest
KERNEL memtest
APPEND knoppix_dir=SETUP/KNOPPIX initrd=
LABEL knoppix-txt
KERNEL linux
APPEND knoppix_dir=SETUP/KNOPPIX ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=normal initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL debug
KERNEL linux
APPEND knoppix_dir=SETUP/KNOPPIX ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=normal initrd=minirt.gz debug BOOT_IMAGE=debug
LABEL fb1280x1024
KERNEL linux
APPEND knoppix_dir=SETUP/KNOPPIX ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=794 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL fb1024x768
KERNEL linux
APPEND knoppix_dir=SETUP/KNOPPIX ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL fb800x600
KERNEL linux
APPEND knoppix_dir=SETUP/KNOPPIX ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=788 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL failsafe
KERNEL linux
APPEND knoppix_dir=SETUP/KNOPPIX ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us vga=normal atapicd nosound noapic noacpi acpi=off nofstab noscsi nodma noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce nodhcp xmodule=vesa initrd=minirt.gz BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL userdef
KERNEL linux
APPEND knoppix_dir=SETUP/KNOPPIX #####################

(I cut the # symbols short for horizontal scroll safety, attached to the post is my original so copying doesn't cause problems or whatever)

I managed to get Knoppix to load to the menu screen but for whatever reason, it didn't want to take my keystrokes (Enter to boot, F1 and F2, etc). Not sure what the problem was there. But what was really the problem was that when trying to install XP or 2000, I recieved an error about not being able to find a windows cd or something. I believe it's due to the fact that it found a linux installation but that didn't really make much sense to me.

I tried moving SETUP\KNOPPIX so that the folder was in the root directory and re-editing isolinux.cfg. Unfortunately, I recieved the same problem. Other attempts to rename the directory and such resulted in the same problem.

Hopefully someone can solve m problem (and possibly others) or at least build off it.

[EDIT]

It looks like there wasn't really a problem with the way I was doing it, it was just Microsoft VirtualPC. VMWare seems to handle this method without any problem.

[/EDIT]

isolinux.rar