Welcome to Knoppix, merck4819,
Quote Originally Posted by merck4819
When I try to boot from the CD without using any "cheats" the process hangs when it gets to 'Scanning for Harddisk partitions and creating /etc/fstab...'.
Some questions:
- What version of Knoppix are you using? (4.0.2?)
- Have you looked at the Tips&Tricks section of the Cheatcodes page? My guess is that you might want to try the failsafe cheatcode.
- If yes, what boot options did you try and how far did you get in the boot process?
- Are you getting any error messages and, if yes, what exactly do they say?

Please post back and let us know how things go.

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org