Newbie RE:NO INSTALL LINUX,KNOPPIX KDE 3.1 ?PLEASE HELP ME?

[AndrewVDP]

GIDDAY,HELLO,
I'M TRYING TO BE A NEW LINUX USER, BUT HAVING PROBLEMS WITH MY FIRST TRY..
I have recently bought a promotional version of No Install LINUX, KNOPPIX KDE 3.1 .
When I boot my system with cdrom, I get to the gui boot section, where I'm asked to hit enter to proceed..I do this, then the boot proceeds to auto configuration, then my computer reboots and continues until it stops at.
PLEASE CHECK AND RETRY' /etc/init.d/xsession start.
I do not no any linux commands, although I see on this site their is a section on commands, so I can check that out.
Anyway my computer is a steam train no make that a horse drawn carridge.
Its specifcations are:
PENTIUM MMX,1995 AWARD SOFTWARE BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS CAT:IBM PC/AT
MEMORY:640K, 64512K Ext, 64352K XMS
MONITOR: VIEWMASTER 15A PNP
VIDEO CARD: S3 VIRGE DX/GX PCI
VIDEO BIOS VERSION: S3 86C375/86C385
RUNNING WINDOWS 98(VERSION 4.10.1998) AT THE MOMENT.
I have also disabled my pnp via bios.As I heard this may help, It didnt.

If anyone could help me with this problem I would be very greatful..
do you need anymore info about my computer system?
If so I shall keep a close eye on this forum and get back to you ASAP

Thanking anyone who can help
Regards Andrew Vanderploeg

[rickenbacherus]

While I won't say it's impossible I will say it's unlikely that you'll ever get Knoppix to boot on that much RAM. You really need a minimum of 96M for a desktop environment- I would suggest at least 128M and using the icewm desktop as KDE will be very slow on only 128. Open Office would take two days to load on 128M RAM too.

[aay]

I don't think it's completely a memory problem. I've gotten X to start on as little as 32mb (maybe less) and run KDE and icewm. Of course I also created a reasonable sized swap space before I did this. You should have received a message that you needed to create some swap space on your windows partition before starting X. Did you do this?

[AndrewVDP]

Hello,
Thanks for helping..
I did not get any messages about creating windows partitions..
Could you please give me more info.
regards Andrew

[rickenbacherus]

Hello,
Thanks for helping..
I did not get any messages about creating windows partitions..
Could you please give me more info.
regards Andrew

I've had the same thing happen. aay is correct though. It should let you know that it needs a swap file and that it's trying to create one. When this happened to me it was actually failing just before or right at that point.