Quote Originally Posted by WelshBluebird
well after trying a few cheat codes, I've got it to boot. First into text mode, then I tried booting into the normal mode. While doing this it actually 'saw' my hard drive and let me make a swap file on it.
I created a 64MB swapfile called knoppix.swp on /dev/hda1, which is an ext3 partition. When I booted with this:

boot: knoppix desktop=twm

Knoppix booted up just fine into the GUI using twm. Other desktops that worked include fluxbox, icewm, and larswm. Desktops that did not work include kde, xfce, xfce4, openbox, and lg3d.

Personally, I like icewm as a minimalist desktop alternative to kde, but YMMV.

Let us know what you tried and how it goes.

Regards,
- Robert
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