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1mck:
Hello,

Yesterday was my first time EVER using Linux, and it was a cathartic experience to say the very least!
I can't get my computer to load up Knoppix, but I whipped over to my friend's place, and tried it on his computer, and it loaded up with absolutely no problems whatsoever!
Okay, my computer is (a piece of crap) a Compaq Presario 5360 with a AMD K6 450mhz processor with that 3D Now crap, and 256 megs of ram, and a Voodoo 3000 Video/3D accelerator card thingy. I have changed the BIOS settings so that the computer will boot to the CD first. Everything will go along fine until it actually reaches the point where it checks for everything on my computer, and then it reads the last thing, which is my sound card (Ess Solo 1), and then that's it. It doesn't do anything, and the computer is totally locked up to the point that I have to pull the power cord as the on/off button is disabled. I can only think that there is a conflict with my Video Card, and the Actual On-Board 3D Now Video Thingy that I have to disable in order to get everything to work with no conflicts with my present setup(I probably don't have it setup right on my computer in the first place). I would appreciate any help with this problem.

Thanks in advance,
1mck

voidmain:
I'm afraid I can't help you much other than it appears to be hanging up on your sound card (but you already knew that). And I have to admit that I've never heard of Knoppix. What made you decide to try that one as your first?

And as far as live eval CDs have you tried SuSe's run from CD eval? Of course I've never run that one either but at least it's one of the major distros. Or is Knoppix a code word for SuSe's live eval? Sorry for not being able to help.

1mck:
Thanks for the info.

I read about it in one of the threads, and I checked it out, and it is absolutely amazing what it can do. Of course, that was on my friend's computer, and not on my piece of shit.
I'll check into the Suse jobber, and maybe that one will work. I don't want to go through the hassle of partitioning my hard drive...I've only got 10gigs, so when I get a Real computer, then I'll be doing the partition thing.
Here is the Link to Knoppix:
http://www.knoppix.org/

1mck:
I'm downloading Suse Live Eval 8.0 as I write, and there is a whole whack of stuff there. I downloaded all the little stuff, but when I make the .iso do I have to include the other stuff too?
Like: (rawwritewin.exe) or (modules1)???? Or do I just plain burn the .iso?

Thanks in advance (again),
1mck

ps
For my first ever experience with Linux, I was thourghly impressed, and I really like all the stuff that was on the Knoppix Linux, and I couldn't get over how many applications were jammed packed into it! My buddy and I surfed the internet, and played some games, and then tried out the office stuff, and you know what? If I had started with this in the first place instead of Windoze, then I don't think that I would have ever even considered Microsoft! I will be starting a new thread later on about this, and what I'm hoping that the extremely intelligent people who inhabit this bulletin board can do to get Linux more main stream.

[ August 28, 2002: Message edited by: 1mck ]

voidmain:
The only thing you should need is the ISO to make the bootable CD. Good luck.

[ August 28, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

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