Tim_Neobard
05-18-2004, 06:01 PM
Following damage in transit, my HP laptop has a suspected HD fault. Whether this has any bearing on why 3.4 (5-10-2004 release) doesn't boot I don't know.
I'm attempting to make this into a terminal for my girlfriend. 3.3 seems to boot fine, but freezes after about 1/2 an hour.
I'm downloading 17-5-2004 in the blind hope this'll solve the problem, but if it isn't, what can I do? I've tried simply removing the HD - but the laptop then refuses point blank to boot whatever I do. I don't really want to buy another HD for my laptop, if I did, then there would be no point running knoppix as she's a native windows user.
Is it likely that knoppix is mounting the drive and crashing? Anything I can do? Anyone own a hpvt6200 who can tell me how to stop it searching for an HD on bootup? I've disabled it in the BIOS (I think)
Thanks for any help...
I'm attempting to make this into a terminal for my girlfriend. 3.3 seems to boot fine, but freezes after about 1/2 an hour.
I'm downloading 17-5-2004 in the blind hope this'll solve the problem, but if it isn't, what can I do? I've tried simply removing the HD - but the laptop then refuses point blank to boot whatever I do. I don't really want to buy another HD for my laptop, if I did, then there would be no point running knoppix as she's a native windows user.
Is it likely that knoppix is mounting the drive and crashing? Anything I can do? Anyone own a hpvt6200 who can tell me how to stop it searching for an HD on bootup? I've disabled it in the BIOS (I think)
Thanks for any help...