Okay, after digging around a little, I've managed to get it to tell me that its getting alot of read-errors. Now this makes no sense to me as the ISO was checked with Summer and the burn itself was checked with Nero. Anyone?

Since I can't mail a reply to you i'll do it here;

Yes it can very well be your cd-rom drive. some drives don't work well with cd-r or cd-rw media, especially older drives. but it might also be a bad cable, or misconfiguration in the BIOS (less likely however). I'd suggest you try a different cd-rom drive if you have one handy, because if the MD5's check out and the burn process went fine as well as knoppix testcd, then the drive is the only spot left to check...

Hrm...gonna try the other comp sitting here and see if its drive does any better... Now I wonder why it wouldn't let you mail me... oi vey. *L*

It said that you preferred not to be mailed and thus blocked the mail reply

*kicks it* Well that's not very nice of it. Will have to dig in the user config later. I've got the Knoppix up now (two cd-drives later) and it found the network with no issue (I'm on it now actually). Next question is if there is a way to manually set the refresh rate. I was running 1024x768 on WinXP, but it required me to be at the 44 refresh rate. Knop doesn't give me an option of 44. Is there a workaround?

I'm using Knoppix 3.6 at the moment with Fluxbox
altering screen refresh rates is still something i'm researching myself because I *really* need to switch my server's refresh rate down from 85 to 75mhz.. the entire screen is shrunk 20% and shifted to the right because of that and it's rather annoying. I have found with Google that you can edit the Xfree86 config files but I find that rather intimidating (tried it before without success on another machine, it's still waiting to be fixed)
How is your screen handling it by the way? flickering, shifted, ?

It shows the bootscreen fine, but then goes into flickering with the loading screen with the penguin at the top (granted, that makes 5 penguins, which is kinda funny, but still hard to read). Then the GUI loads and is all flickery until I hit Ctrl + Alt + { + | - } and then it settles down to where the desktop is just too big for the screen; it scrolls around with the mouse. I then used the Rotate and Resize thing to get it to where it at least displayed 800x600, I think it was, right. But now I've rebooted and now the R&R crashes every time I try to load it.

Well, R&R stopped crashing, but now I've discovered it won't mount my NTFS harddrive that has all my stuff on it. *sigh* And it doesn't seem to want to save ANY changes I make to anything (screens, desktop, Gaim).

hey all,
I have the same problem under two of my comps...
I got a lead the other day relating to how some cards have a problem with the framebuffer options on some video cards...
type
"fb800x600"
-for fixed framebuffer graphics


(or your desired resolution) at the Knoppix boot...
should fix your prob



Pat Mahoney