Hi OErjan,

Thank you very much for your help.

I tried your suggestion and all of the same things occured except the last message read:

INIT: Entering runlevel: 2

Then it hung for several minutes and I got a black screen.

I tried booting Knoppix on my old machine and everything worked just fine.....and is quite beautiful, I might add.

Do you have any other suggestions? I would really like to get this working if at all possible.