Hanging during boot

[blue raven]

I am trying to use knoppix 7.3 on an acer travelmate 4002 notebook. When booting, Knoppix allways hangs at "Network Device Eth0 detected, DHCP brodcasting for ip . " I dont have anything plugged into the built in ethernet in the laptop because I normaly use wireless with it. I'v tried waiting but it stays there. Is there a way I can tell knoppix to skip this step?

I read the instructions for the boot options but I didn't see anything there that would disable trying to get an ip adress. I know almost nothing about linux, the reason I am trying to use knoppix is for learning. I tried the cd on my friends computer and it works. I tried also using the games knoppix and it hangs in exacaly the same place. So is there a way to get knoppix to skip that step? or something else I can do to prevent it from hanging?

[chris-harry]

ok... blue, i got this from the cheat codes that came with me cd...

knoppix no{apic,agp,apm,audio,ddc} Skip parts of HW-detection (1)
knoppix no{firewire,isapnpbios} Skip parts of HW-detection (2)
knoppix no{pcmcia,scsi,swap,usb} Skip parts of HW-detection (3)

... by the way.. its one of these cheet codes... i dont know which one... hopefully i have been helpful...



you can check your cd for more cheat codes... D:\knoppix\knoppix-cheatcodes.txt

[CrashedAgain]

'knoppix failsafe' skips all but absolutely essential HD detection & should skip DHCP detection.

[Durand Hicks]

Try knoppix nodhcp at boot to disable dhcp at startup. You can configure a couple of scripts afterwards to make it stick.
See my response to this thread:http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16024 to see if that does it for you.

HTH,

Durand