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4. About boot systems

4.1 A driver is missing in the partimage-bootdisk/bootcd. How can I solve the problem ?

Many users write us because they can't use the network (or another device). In most cases, the problem comes from the bootdisk/bootcd which does not support all drivers.

Space is limited in both partimage-bootdisk and partimage-rootdisk. We can't include all drivers that exists in the kernel sources. That's why only the most common NE2000 cards, and the most common AIC7xxx SCSI drivers are supported. It provides support for a lot of devices, but some of them need another driver. For example, 3COM cards are not supported. There are many ways to solve this problem:

4.2 When I use the bootfloppy, I see an error with 09000900090009000900090009000 on the screen

I'm having a problem with booting from the bootdisk.

I've created the disk from the partimage-0.3.5-bootdisk-1.raw file, and when booting, all I see is

090009000900090009000900090009000900090009000900090009000900090009000900090 0090009000900090009000900090009000900090009000900090009000900090009000900090 0090009000900090009000900090009000900090009000900

all over the screen.

This is a problem when you download the file with Netscape, and the ASCII mode. Try using FTP, or another tool: type wget AdressOfTheFileToDownload

4.3 Using Knoppix, Live Linux Filesystem On CD

Knoppix livcd http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ provides partimage and partimaged with login and SSL support. To run them, you need to switch to text console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) because they require root rights. If you want to use partimaged, you need to set a password for user 'partimag' with passwd command (as root). Then use partimag login when prompted by partimage.


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