I am a first time knoppix user. I got an iso of knoppix for kids, and it won't boot.

On my regular desktop, it won't start X, complaining about not being able to load agpgart and mga modules, but it correctly autodetects my Matrox G550 card, and dumps me into the root prompt. I guess that tells me the CD is OK.

On the target machine, it hangs after Autodetecting devices ||||||||| done. The cursor is at the left screen border, blinking. At that point, the machine is dead for all intents, but I guess the kernel is still running, as the screen blanks after a few minutes. I've tried failsafe and knopppix 2, both with the same result.

I have no experience with knoppix or live CD distros at all, so I'm a bit stuck.... Both machines run Fedora core just fine. My desktop runs FC1, and the target machine runs FC2.... The target machine is an old IBM Intellistation Z-Pro - an SMP P-Pro box running at 200 MHz.

Any suggestions, hints, etc?

Thanks,

--Yan