i tested my disk on my work computer and it works a treat! so i have no clue as to why it isnt working at all on my laptop! so ive ruled out missing files and burn error
I'm not clear on why it is trying to get to tty. I've run every version of Knoppix since 3.1 on several systems, most with hard drives but some without, and I've never seen that message.
---
Verifying of md5 checksum and burning a CD at slow speed are important.
i tested my disk on my work computer and it works a treat! so i have no clue as to why it isnt working at all on my laptop! so ive ruled out missing files and burn error
the other computer didnt say waiting for usb on it before... maybe the laptop is too old?
Well, you have ruled out missing files and I'll even say that if the md5 was bad it would not likely have burnt on the other system either. You haven't really ruled out the burn issue of speed, as the faster that you burn a disc that less likely it is to boot ob some marginal optical drives. I'm more inclined to think that you need the right cheat code to boot on this system, but I can't be sure it isn't a media issue yet.Originally Posted by dudepool
If this laptop can boot from a USB flash drive you might want to try booting Linux that way. Be warned though that even some laptops that have a USB boot option in the BIOS either will not boot a flash drive or are extremely picky about how the flash drive is created. However, I think this would be worth a try, if you saw the same error on a USB flash media boot then you could completely rule out media issues. Apparently the latest version of Knoppix can install itself to a large flash drive, but I don't have any that are suitable for it and have never done it. I have used other much smaller Linux distros to create a bootable flash drive on a small 64 meg flash drive. I think Puppy Linux can do this, but if not try DSL (it's been ages since I've done this and I don't trust my memory on which I used).
---
Verifying of md5 checksum and burning a CD at slow speed are important.
I've booted Knoppix on old Pentium 90 systems and even 486s (although low memory can make them too slow to actually use and even the boot can take several minutes). This was older Knoppix versions, but I doubt that it is an age of the laptop issue. What are the specs on the laptop, but I doubt that is really the issue and I do expect that if you find the right cheat codes(s) that you can get it to boot.Originally Posted by dudepool
---
Verifying of md5 checksum and burning a CD at slow speed are important.
i dont think my bios supports booting from usb because in the boot options there is only:
atapi cd-rom drive
hard disk
diskette drive
im not sure on any other specs other than that it has 64mb of ram, it is a notebook if you wanted to search it the model is sony vaio pcg-n505x
I'm not going to spend time tracking down the specs, but if it has 64 meg of RAM then I'll go ahead and pronounce it too limited. With a hard drive you could have a swap file, but it would be overly slow as it swapped memory in and out of disk, without a swap file you are certainly not going to run the GUI, and I have doubts if you can even run the command line prompt (Linux has become bloated just like Windows). As a test you could type knoppix 2 at the boot prompt and try to boot into a command prompt shell but don't get your hopes up.
---
Verifying of md5 checksum and burning a CD at slow speed are important.
when i typed knoppix 2 it just said loading linux.......... then went to the normal screen
but your saying even if it did work i wouldnt be able to run linux?
I'm not sure what you mean by "the normal screen", unless you mean that error you have reported.Originally Posted by dudepool
64 meg is too little to run the GUI. And this is due to bloat. You certainly could run Linux (the operating system) on that computer, but in shell mode (command line text mode). But that might not give you what you want, depending on what you hope to do with the OS once you have it running. Browising the web with a graphical web browser would be out, for example, although you could still download files with FTP or use other internet tools that are non-graphical. Think DOS.
---
Verifying of md5 checksum and burning a CD at slow speed are important.
Lenovo ThinkPad P15 Intel i7 32GB RAM 1TB SSD 15.6 FHD NVIDIA Quadro Win 11 Pro
$599.99
Lenovo 100e Laptop PC Computer 11.6" Windows 10 Celeron 4GB RAM 64GB SSD
$74.99
Lenovo ThinkPad L13 Yoga Gen 2 i5-1145G7 @ 2.60GHz 16GB/256GB Win 10 Pro - W/Pen
$261.00
Lenovo ThinkPad T480 14" Laptop Intel Core i5-8350U 1.70GHz 16GB RAM 512GB SSD
$222.49
Lenovo Ideapad 1 15Amn7 15.6" Laptop Ryzen 3 7320U 8GB 256GB SSD W11H-64
$199.99
Lenovo Loq 15Irh8 15" Laptop Core i5-13420H GeForce RTX 2050 16GB 512GB SSD W11H
$519.99
Lenovo ThinkPad T480 14" Laptop Intel Core i5 8GB RAM 128GB SSD Win11 - C-GRADE
$99.99
Lenovo Flex 7 14IRU8 14" 2.2K Touch Intel Core i7-1355U 16GB 1TB SSD W11H
$509.99
Lenovo ThinkPad L15 Gen 2 15.6" Core i5-10210U 1.60GHZ 8GB RAM No HD/OS READ
$122.00
Lenovo Yoga 6 Laptop, 13.3" IPS 60Hz, Ryzen 5 7530U, 8GB, 512GB, Win 11 Home
$449.99