Okay, IDK what the malfunction is!
My friend at a LUG meeting gave me the recent Knoppix DVD (can't rmbr the version right now, just know its the latest stable (not 5)).
Anyways, in one of my CD drives, it doesn't work at all, it just boots right on by without a prompt at all and reads the hard drive. In the other drive, it gets the install screen. If I just hit enter, it loads up, but my monitor goes out of range .. ugh! So I tried "knoppix vsync=60 hsync=60" -- now, a couple lines through the boot its giving me a message that it failed to insert cloop or something rather (I don't have it in front of me right now sorry!). Same if I try "knoppix vga=0"

Can anyone help?