I bought my copy of Knoppix earlier today as I'm up to my mustache with using Winblows 98, and I've also been interested in Linux for a while now. Thus I shall righteously be labled "/\/00b".

So far, I've been unsuccessful getting the program to run or install. I made a (floppy) boot disc with "boot.img", rebooted with the CD in my drive. And I see the penguin at the top left corner of the screen. Some things start to load, and I see a big list of grey errors going down the screen (I'm not sure what it is even though I've seen it several times. Something about data loss from reading the CD). Then it it starts detecting things like my USB devices (mouse and keyboard), and it gets to my video card (an ATI Radeon 7500). It loads and configures it alright from what I could see, but then it says something about loading into the GUI and from that point on I'm staring at a black screen regardless of what I press or how long I hold it down.

If I could take one single guess, I'd say that it's the video card. Or maybe those errors at the beginning had something to do with it. But my CD-drive plays everything else just fine. Any help or suggestions at all are greatly appreciated. I was very excited and looking forward to finally being able to use this OS, but this is turning out to be a complicated and frustrating issue.


(One last thing, I tried mixing commands like knoppix 800x600, bf1024x768 and got the same result. As I am typing this post, Windows has just enlightened me that it decided my "Rundll32" commited an invalid page fault. HELP ME!)