laptop

[oneeyedelf1]

I read whatever I thought would be appropriate on the faqs, but am lost. I can not boot knoppix.
I have a dell Lattitude CSx
I would like to keep pcmcia seeing how my nic is on it.
I am trying to boot via a modular CDROM
how far I get

Welcome to the KNOPPIZ live Linux-on-CD!

Enabling DMA acceleartion for hda    [stuff]
Enabling DMA acceleration for hdc     [TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1802B]
Looking for CDROM in: /dev/scd0 (hang)

it does nothing else, please help me

[user unknown]

There is a laptop-forum, a few lines down in the forum-menu.

[oneeyedelf1]

surpisingly enouhg I missed that & I actually looked

[oneeyedelf1]

*edit*
double post

[oneeyedelf1]

Well I tried booting the disc on a different pc, it just gets to the Penguin and doesnt say anything and freezes, its a pentium 2, 512 ram, usb2 card, nic, ide controller, lots of stuff on the ide controller and usb2 card, what should I do

[CrashedAgain]

Well I tried booting the disc on a different pc, it just gets to the Penguin and doesnt say anything and freezes, its a pentium 2, 512 ram, usb2 card, nic, ide controller, lots of stuff on the ide controller and usb2 card, what should I do

Sounds like you maybe have a bad disk.

[oneeyedelf1]

re downloaded it with a different computer and burnt it with a different burner, outta my brother's collection of blanks different brand purchased at a different times, and it still happens the same way on both computers

[CrashedAgain]

Still really sounds like a problem with the disk. There is some rare problems with certain brands of CD-ROM drives but I have an older Toshiba laptop & it reads the disk just fine so I doubt if it's that. You did burn the disk a an iso image, not just a regular data CD, right? You must have, I don't think it will even get that far if you didn't.

[bamarob]

Try disabling dma with 'knoppix nodma' at the boot prompt.