i have a compaq 7470 with no hard drive, 128m ram and a k6 500mhz processor that I am trying to run knoppix 3.1 if i try no boot options it hangs on "loading vmlinuz......." if I boot using knoppix vga=normal i get:

loading vmlinuz ........................
loading miniroot.gz................
ready.
uncompressing linux ...

crc error

--System halted

i've tried all the combinations of cheatcodes i can think of, including noswap, since there is no hard drive. but i always hang at the same point.

if anyone has some insight into this problem, i would really appreciate it. thanks.