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Thanks to all. (REF: Quantian based on Knoppix4. Vostro 3560 laptop)

Most recently I tried booting from Voytro on USB and got kernel panic.
I prefered Voytro over Rufus because it allows multiple ISOs.
I then went back to the DVD and after it couldn't find the file system,
I entered "exec KNOPPIX" to which it also gave "kernel panic".
So, there is some consistency!

Now, I have installed Quantian/Knoppix before but I do not know which version
that was. It seems there is only one ISO online, that in arhciveos.

Since playing with  DVD parameters (UEFI -> Legacy, SATA -> ATA)
overcame objections to installing XP (over Win7), I am assuming (perhaps
wrongly) that the same will work with KNOPPIX.

I did find somewhere that the DVD is /dev/sr0 and will play with that next eg
home=/dev/sr0/KNOPPIX.img or Quantian.iso The quantian web site gives a
bootfrom knoppix command that isn't on the cheatcodes But that is where I got
sr0 from

In <m_2dncOBY-JQdJ_5nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@earthlink.com> by 28A.I873
  <28A.I873@noabzba.net>
  on Sat, 04 Mar 2023 01:48:44 we perused:

*+-  In theory you use the Knoppix Installer and pick
*+-  a completely new stretch of disk space to install
*+-  the system. SOMETIMES this involves using something
*+-  like gparted to CREATE the partition ahead of time
*+-  so Knoppix will have something it can SEE as the
*+-  install point rather than trying to create it de-novo.

Yes, I used GParted to set up DOS,XP, Extended
(ext4,linux-swap,fat32-data) partitions

(I'm wondering if someday I may want Android and DEC20
partitions or if I'm just being foolish)

*+-  May I also suggest VMs ? You can have The Experience
*+-  without a lot of the (occasionally dangerous) complications.
*+-  KVM is pretty good, but VirtualBox is much easier to
*+-  deal with. I have a CP/M-86  machine in VirtualBox and
*+-  it works as-advertised.

VMs? I know KVM as the switch that lets me use the same
Keyboard-Video-Mouse on several machines.

I have used DOSBox from Android and Linpus with some satisfaction. (Off
Topic, apparently DOS Mathematica doesn't work with DOSBOX)

*+-  WORST case ... hmm ... if you have an ISO of Knoppix
*+-  you can use gparted to create an equal-or-larger
*+-  partition and then 'dd' the ISO into there. Then
*+-  run update-grub. ALWAYS be VERY careful with 'dd',
*+-  it's nickname is "Disk Destroyer"  :-)

I'm wondering in that direction ev'tho not sure what dd does.
I'm thinking of copying the ISO to the Data partition
and somehow running it from there (how?).

Is update-grub on the GParted ISO?

BTW, cfdisk and DD do not run in the ISO-Linux that comes with Knoppix and
into which it crashes. It had a very limited busybox set of bash commands.
One of the Quantian sites suggests cfdisk and dd. Apparently quantian.org is
still up.

The other thing I may just try to instal a different Linux and see how it
behaves differently and then go back and apply the lessons.

   I really do need to recreate the old environment as closely as
possible. (DOS+XP+Quantian, but that was a 2007 AOpen desktop)

I will get back to this again over the weekend

Most obliged.

-- 
	 Vasos Panagiotopoulos  panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm
  ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice.  Everything fully disclaimed.}---

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