ackelley
01-12-2005, 05:14 PM
I am trying to run Knoppix 3.7 from a CD. The machine has an old PIII 550 processor, 64MB RAM, AGP video card, PCI network card, ISA modem, 40x CD-RW, and a 15GB hard drive. It seems to detect the hardare OK, but when it gets to "looking for partitions and creating /etc/fstab" (that's not word-for-word), the system just stops and sits there. I thought maybe it would just take a long time because of the small amount of RAM, but I let it sit for nearly an hour and nothing happened. I tried this several times with the same result.
I also tried booting with the cheatcode "failsafe" and it actually worked. It was able to boot up in KDE, but of course because it didn't detect all of the hardware, my mouse didn't work and I just had to shut down. Since it worked with "failsafe", I tried removing anything that wasn't needed (i.e. modem, network card), but that didn't work either. It stopped at the same place. What else can I try? All that remains is the processor, RAM, video card, hard drive, and CD.
Any ideas? Do I need more RAM? Could the ISA slots cause a problem? Could the network checking cause trouble?
Thanks
I also tried booting with the cheatcode "failsafe" and it actually worked. It was able to boot up in KDE, but of course because it didn't detect all of the hardware, my mouse didn't work and I just had to shut down. Since it worked with "failsafe", I tried removing anything that wasn't needed (i.e. modem, network card), but that didn't work either. It stopped at the same place. What else can I try? All that remains is the processor, RAM, video card, hard drive, and CD.
Any ideas? Do I need more RAM? Could the ISA slots cause a problem? Could the network checking cause trouble?
Thanks