booting up stops at..

[madLyfe]

its like checking and creating partition in /etc/blah/...
and it just sits there, and nothing happens.. what it going wrong?

[SUOrangeman]

How long have you waited? What kind of system?

Have you tried the same disc in another system? If the problems persist, you likely have a bad CD.

-SUO

[stonent]

I solved that exact problem by starting knoppix with

knoppix nodma

[Dave_Bechtel]

--Good info. However, you should check to see if the HD is going bad:
' time badblocks -s -v /dev/hda '

I solved that exact problem by starting knoppix with

knoppix nodma