Hi
I have got Knoppix to try on machine before I install Redhat 9. I put it in and got the following apart from on one ocassion.

Knoppix version 3.3
release 2..3-11-19-beta

Loading vmlinuz
loading miniroot.gz

Then picture of penguin
Then
accessing knoppix cdrom at /dev/scd0…

The first time and all subsequent times apart from once, the screen scrolls past with and the last screen beginnings and ends with

total memory found: kb

creating directories – symlinks on ramdisk
fat: bogus logical sector size 0
kenal panic:vfs: unable to mount root fs on 01:01

On one occasion it said
total memory found: 65..kb
I can’t remember what I saw, but it filled in a number. And then it appeared that my hardware was been detected I remember my usb coming up, then there was a green bar which moved across the screen.

I was getting all excited and then scrolls past with
cloop: Read error at pos 238321691 in file /cdrom/knoppix/knoppix, 25851 bytes lost
cloop error –3 uncompressing block 10188 65536/0/25851/0
i/o error: dev 0b:00 sector 466572

Then down the bottom
init: cannot execute “/etc/init.d/xsession”

The screens go by so fast, I am unable to give you all the error messages. If anyone knows how to do it I would be grateful?

I have since got a couple of friends to try it, and it has worked on their machines, so I don't think it is the disk. Would it be my memory as no number comes up?

Any help gratefully received.