Quote Originally Posted by vhradice View Post
Capricorny, In response to your suggestions:
1. Where do I download a copy of 6.3 or 6.2.1? This site only has 6.2 avaliable
2. Check already. I am at the latest level.
3. I plan to install GRUB if/when I can get KNOPPIX loaded. I need to install it first.

Klaus2008, There is only 1 hd installed. I loaded KNOPPIX onto it on a different pc and moved the hd. I got those messages when I tried to boot it.

Here is where I stand at this moment: I truly believe that there is something strange with the hardware. I have found several posts on many web sites referencing the hardware I have and not being able to load any version of LINUX. None of them gave the final resolution of how they got it to work. From what I have been able to determine, the mount command is failing to mount the cd/dvd and throwing me into debugging mode. When I try to issue what appear to be valid mount commands, the response back is usually 'Invalid parameter' with no indication of what is wrong. How can I get more detailed information of why mount fails? I have tried the -v which is supposed to be verbose and give more info. Nothing more than 'invalid parameter'. I can run hdparm and get results the conform to what the drive is. ANy more suggestions/requests? Thanks in advance.
1. "Available"?. Follow the link to knopper.net, look at the download mirrors, e.g. ftp://knoppix.ftp.fu-berlin.de/ has got 6.2.1.
2. Fine.
3. No, you don't. In fact IMHO KNOPPIX isn't a good route of installing GRUB if you aren't a very experienced Linux user. You could use Mandriva, Suse or just about any live distro except for Knoppix to get GRUB installed in a safe and simple way. Myself, I used Mandriva 2009.

The main gripe with installing Linux on another PC and then moving the disk, is that you should not try to bring up the graphical interface after moving the disk. There are always booting options for this.

If you are not able to mount the CD at all on your PC, you can just copy the ISO image onto the harddisk, and loop-mount it, or simply copy the necessary files to a FAT32-partition and use GRUB for starting it. I have described a method elsewhere here.