Davepet
05-11-2004, 08:17 AM
Hi, I finally got a hold of a fast enough connection (temporarily) to give this OS a try.
It booted right up o my brother's gateway PII 500Mhz desktop & his IBM thinkpad (P-III 850 mhz...sorry don't have any more specs).
When I got it home, it booted to my old Compaq 5204 (AMDK62- 350, 192 MB RAM, via chipset, ATI Mach 64 LT, ESS sound (sound didn't work)).
I had a problem with my Dell laptop CPiA 366 (PII-366, 128 MB ram, neomagic video & sound)..
Just in case it might help someone else, this string got it working:
linux26 knoppix noscsi nosmb atapicd acpi=off
I didn't go through a scientific process to get to this string, so some of it may be able to be eliminated, this is just the first string that resulted in a successful boot.
noscsi acpi=off by themselves didn't work (it would hang at detecting sda (something) I should have made notes, I guess
I'll add to this as (if) I find anything that might be helpful.
Dave
It booted right up o my brother's gateway PII 500Mhz desktop & his IBM thinkpad (P-III 850 mhz...sorry don't have any more specs).
When I got it home, it booted to my old Compaq 5204 (AMDK62- 350, 192 MB RAM, via chipset, ATI Mach 64 LT, ESS sound (sound didn't work)).
I had a problem with my Dell laptop CPiA 366 (PII-366, 128 MB ram, neomagic video & sound)..
Just in case it might help someone else, this string got it working:
linux26 knoppix noscsi nosmb atapicd acpi=off
I didn't go through a scientific process to get to this string, so some of it may be able to be eliminated, this is just the first string that resulted in a successful boot.
noscsi acpi=off by themselves didn't work (it would hang at detecting sda (something) I should have made notes, I guess
I'll add to this as (if) I find anything that might be helpful.
Dave