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I installed gnoppix to my hd with boot floopy but when I reboot my pc with the floppy it doesnt boot to gnoppix it just says press enter to reboot, what I'm gonna do? how can i boot to hd install of gnoppix? :cry:

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does gnoppix work from the cd for you? (I'd gather it does)

I've usually found it's best not to rely on floppies for booting....too many things could happen to that floppy to mess it up...

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maybe your floppy's just bad? tried it with another?

And you can install lilo to the root partition, that's how I set up every distro I install nowadays (since sometimes getting it out of the mbr is more of a pain than simply formatting the mbr...

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yes it does, and about the floppies i dont want to write lilo on my mbr i 've done this before with knoppix and i had no problem at all

Newer Linux kernels don't support this (booting the kernel from a floppy without a bootloader). I think this has been removed from 2.4.13 and later kernels.

"However, Alan Cox told in a linux-kernel thread that this feature of the linux kernel will be removed sooner or later, you thus will have to use a bootloader even on floppies some day. I know this still works with 2.4.11 kernels, but support seems to have been removed in the 2.4.13 version. See the sixth chapter of the boot-disk-HOWTO for this topic." - http://www.linuxforum.com/linux-network-boot/x359.html

It's not a great source. I've read it somewhere else but it escapes me at the moment.

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Thank you guys :)

FYI, I used Knoppix to install to the HD and from their I apt-getted Gnome 2.4 and GDM. I don't really need to use any of the KDE components anymore. Well, except Kolf.

Keep this in mind if you feel that Gnoppix is feeling dated. Although with any installed Debian distro you can apt-get yourself up to the (almost) latest stuff without reinstalling.

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