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Want to try a livecd and eventually install Linux on my HDD, but none of boot prompt combinations (under Knoppix versions 3.4 thru 3.6, Freesbie, etc) works. The PC is a TARGA Visionary WS PC 0210PLD 2400, from German discount chain LIDL, with specs as below:
Mainboard ASUS A7V8X
CPU Athlon XP2400+
Chipset: Northbridge: VIA KT400 Southbridge: VIA VT8235
RAM 768 MB
Hard disk: MAXTOR 6Y120LO
DVD-ROM: TOSHIBA SD-M1612
CD-R/RW: ASUS CRW-4816A
ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 9000Pro
Avance/Realtek AC’97 Soundcard onboard
ASUSTek/Broadcom 10/100 LAN onboard
Full system info (obtained form MS WindowsXP) available; can be posted if required.
Please help.
Thanks
Fedora Core 3 supports all th
Fedora Core 3 supports all the hardware you've listed out... give it a try. (The latest Mandrake and SuSE distros might also, but I haven't tried either of them)
Fedora Core 3 supports all th
Would like to try hands on Debian, especially with kernel 2.6... though. Any help?
Debain
Wait for Sarge to released
Hardware seems supported by knoppix 3.6
I'd be curious to know what exactly causes the boot to fail.
I got an XP2400+ system on KT400 mobo (with 8235). I don't know about
your Radeon but it doesn't seem too recent, either. Should thus work,
at least on vesa driver if nothing else.
Hardware seems supported by knoppix 3.6 ?
Had similar thoughts about Knoppix 3.6, but can't get it to boot with the known boot prompts (noscsi, nopcmcia, noapic, nodma, etc.) and their permutations and combinations
tried without X?
Hi, have you tried without X? That is an easy way to decide, if the graphics card is the problem. Once in the console, you can read the messages and try to get into X.
Is it possible to use text consoles instead of framebuffer?
The anonymous poster of http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4349 even has 786MB RAM, but XP only uses 512MB of it. Why? Have you tried to reduce the memory with the "mem=" kernel parameter?
Hardware seems supported by knoppix 3.6
Had similar thoughts about Knoppix 3.6, but can't get it to boot with the known boot prompts (noscsi, nopcmcia, noapic, nodma, etc.) and their permutations and combinations.