Dear group: I succesfully created a bootable Knoppix CD and I see the Knoppix splash screen and then type "Knoppix lang=us". It checks for system components and then Knoppix freezes when it gets to "Initializing System Services". What is the problem? Thanks! wayne P.S. - I am a Linux newbie so please have mercy!

Dear group: I also tried "boot: knoppix noapm" and "boot: failsafe" and I still get the same results. What now? Thanks. wayne

You could try any number of the following: knoppix nodma knoppix noapic knoppix nousb knoppix apm=off knoppix nopcmcia You can string them together as well, eg: knoppix noapic apm=off nopcmcia

Dear 3Dave: Thanks for the help. I will try those and let you know. Also, I have an Adaptec SCSI card. Are there any issues you know of concerning Knoppix and Adaptec SCSI cards? Thanks a bunch! wayne

I haven't used knoppix, but adaptec cards are pretty well supported under linux. I use a 2940UW myself which is always autodetected and I have never had a problem with it (famous last words!=o) Just noticed that you have a K62, have you checked that the latest version of knoppix supports it? If the binaries are compiled for i686 it wont work. Maybe someone else who has used it can confirm...?

Dear 3Dave: That is an excellent point! I never tried this Knoppix boot disk on a PC with an Intel chip. I have an older Pentium 166 and 128MB of RAM. Would that be enough to at least see if the CPU is the problem? Thanks a bunch for the help! wayne

Just checked on the knoppix website.... Intel-compatible CPU (i486 or later) Your K62 falls into this catagory. If you have broadband and don't mind downloading another ISO, both gentoo and suse have live evaluation CDs...like knoppix, you could give these a go. Better still is to install linux...if you have a spare hard drive you don't mind wiping I would suggest that. FYI: i386 386 AMD 386 i486 486 AMD 486 equivalents, later labeled as "586" and marketed against Pentium, also similar WinChip, Cyrix, IBM, NexGen (bought by AMD), using socket 5 and 7 i586 Pentium (MMX) AMD K5, K6, K6-2 (3D) and Cyrix 6x86, perhaps some IBM, plugged into Intel Socket-7, and VX, TX, HX chipsets K5 basically = P5. P5 is the intel core on Pentiums and Pentiums MMX. i586 PPro AMD K6-3 would be the closest performance equivalent i586 First Generation Pentiums MMX, 66Mhz to 233Mhz i686 PentiumII/III AMD Athlon (K-7) i686 Celeron AMD Duron (K-7 "light") The whole i686 category is roughly equivelent to the K6 category roughly PPro = K6 PII = K6-2 PIII = K6-3 K7 The K7 is a completely new core, and could be approximated to a i786. Expect that the PIV is also a new core and could be approximated to a i786, but the 2 are very different. So the comparisons sort of end at this point.