Quote Originally Posted by btiend
I am using the latest Knoppix DVD, I checked the md5, burned it at the lowest spead possible, (4x), and am running it on Dell Vostro 1500.
The CD works fine, (except I can't connect to internet), but the DVD load up with the text, but then goes to a screen with the background and the mouse (which looks like a cross) and stays like that.
Well, the latest DVD version is 5.3.1, not sure why you didn't just say that. There is no 5.3.1 CD though, so you must be using some other version of the CD. Not sure if it is 5.1.1 or one of the disappointing 6.x versions or some other CD version. Using different versions of the CD and DVD might explain why the CD boots but not the DVD, but I would really be surprised if the 5.1.1 CD worked without a cheat code and the 5.3.1 DVD needed one on the same hardware. Still, I have nothing more to offer than suggesting that you experiment with the cheat codes. Unless, of course, some of that text that scrolled by contains error messages that might provide insight.

I'm curious as to why with the CD you can't connect to the Internet, but again nothing to go on and that would be better dealt with in a separate thread in the Networking forum.