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liviu
02-15-2007, 06:34 PM
Hy, I am totaly newbe to Linux.
I have two problems.
I burned the iso on a cd and on one computer it works, that is Knoppix bootes, but, having no documentation and wantig to learn Knoppix and therfore, when I try to read the help file system, the most pages are blank, there is a message like there are no files or something. And I don't know how to find what applications can be run from Knoppix. For instance, it would interest me Apache. As I understood, there is an Apache webserver in Knoppix, but I don't know how to access it. Or how do I start gimp?
And more than this, I cannot save any files on the hdd. I get a message like "Can't save...".

The second problem is this one:
On another computer, a Pentium 4 cpu 2.80Ghz , 512 ram, when I try to boot Knoppix it works like 3 seconds and, after four or five lines, it stops at a line which says:
"Looking for CD in:/dev/hda"
Then after a while, I get the message:
"Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell".
And that's it. It just remains blinking.

I have no idea what to do, realy no idea.

Please help.

i don't know what other specifications should I give you.... On both computers there is only one partition, with enough disk space.