Quote Originally Posted by kornface13
Everytime I try to boot from the CD, it doesn't work. I will load and go to the screen that says Knoppix. Then I get some sort of menu type thing. It has a bunch of commands I can do and it says boot, and I can type stuff. If you let it sit for a minute the screen goes black and it wont do anything. I need help. Is there some command i have to enter? Any help would be great.

and i also hear that it starts with the german keyboard layout. what am i going to need to do to get it up and running?
Same here! Actually, this problem only happens on my newer system. Knoppix boots up and runs beautifully on my old Dell Precision 410. It's a dual P3-550MHz w/1 GB RAM. However, when I try Knoppix on my newer P4, it hangs right at the point where it's trying to detect hard drive partitions. I wonder if it has a problem with the serial ATA interface?!? Below is my system configuration that Knoppix is hanging on. I've never been able to get it past the initial X desktop image with the Knoppix logo. The computer completely locks up at that point and I have to hit the reset button.

ASUS motherboard with integrated Intel SoundMAX audio
2.8 GHz P4 with Hyperthreading
1 GB DDR400 RAM
120 GB SATA drive
64MB Nvidia GeForce 4

I did try disabling hyperthreading, since we had issues with HT on our HP/Compaq servers at work on some legacy apps. It didn't seem to make any difference with Knoppix.