I've been able to use Live CD's without any problems in the past (Mepis, Knoppox). Since I'll be taking a class in college using Fedora Core I decided to try the FC-6-i386 Live CD.

I can't get it to work. During Boot-up, I get to the part where it says, "Uncompressing Linux.....OK! Booting the Kernel." Then is stops. Doesn't do anything. It's not frozen, just doens't do anything else.

I tried Ubuntu 6.10 Live CD. It goes through all the boot up stuff and gets to, "[DR-DOS] A:\>" with the cousor blinking. What could be wrong? Anybody heard of problems like this?

Mepis Live CD worked OK. Why don't these distros? Thank you,
Chris.

try the cd in another computer if it works in the other computer then its your computer, if it does not work in other computer it is the cd.

QED

what is installed on the present system?

It has Windows XP Pro, SP2.

I just tried Knoppix 4.0.2 last night and it boots to the prompt, then the screen goes blank. I can see the OS is working but the screen isn't.
Chris.

what vid card do you have?

You have burned the disk wrong. [DR-DOS] A:\> is a DOS prompt! You want linux.
You will have downloaded an iso file ending in .iso
You must burn this as an iso image. Most burning programs (even in windows) have this option.
Please try again.

I just tried a Knoppix 3.3 CD I burned a couple years a go. It got to boot up and the screen went blank also.
I have a Asus Radon 128mb video card. One goes to my monitor, the other goes to my TV. I have a TV tuner card that I record from. I watch it on my TV. The Knoppix 3.3 CD booted up on my TV screen but not on my computer screen.

I burned all my Cd's in the disc image mode. Chris.

Sounds like an X-server issue to me. Often older PC's have problems using a live CD. I can't get Knoppix 5.0.1 to boot up on an Intel 810-based board to save my life, which makes no sense to me...

HTH,

J