Quote Originally Posted by Mrmagic97_99
Ok, after finally solving the burning issue, knoppix boots then a)it takes forever to finish loading,b)then when it finally finishes i can click on maybe one icon then it freezes....what gives
Okay, I experienced today that Knoppix-3.2-2003-04-28 boots slowly too, you see the background for about 10s, then the KDE boot-thingy comes up. Please specify "forever"

You could first try good ol' " knoppix checkcd" cheatcode (press F2, enter text and press [Enter]). This obviously shouldn't produce a failure

If it does fail, I would advice to put knoppix on your HD, and I don't mean installing(!). Download CdMage (a windows program), but any ISO mounting/editing software that can do file extraction would work (ex: deamon tools). Use it to extract the KNOPPIX directory from the downloaded ISO to any partition you like. Put it in the root though, like "D:\KNOPPIX\", else the bootfloppy won't find it. Then use mkfloppy.bat in the extracted KNOPPIX directory to generate a bootfloppy. Boot from it (dûh ).

If the cdcheck was correct you could still try the bootfloppy or do the following. Try booting to a simpler windowmanager (aka anything but KDE), use the cheatcodes, since a frozen Knoppix is not something you would want. Fingers crossed . And if it works you can now easely start a browser and post the output of "sudo dmesg" and "sudo lspci -v", run these commands from a console.

If it still doesn't work, boot with the cheat code "knoppix 2", it will boot to the bash commandline interface, the same environment as you see on the consoles under KDE. Type "sudo dmesg | more" and "sudo lspci -v | more". Write down anything that looks suspicious and post it to the forum so we can see into it. To shutdown Knoppix type "shutdown -h now", to reboot "shutdown -r now".

Do you have any kind of "special" hardware, USB stuff and the such?