[Aleader-dev] Re: problems with ISO image

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:56:45PM -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> My friend Dan very graciously burned the ISO image for me earlier today.
> Not before I started to look into the CD burning issue myself.  When I
> did so I found some problems/lack of clarity on the download page.  If we
> move farther down the road and you are interested I'll spell out those
> problems so that stupid people like me (and unlike Dan) will be less
> bamboozled by the instructions.

Yes, I welcome feedback.

> Anyway, Dan said he was able to play with Aleader and he mentioned Good
> Will hunting and some other movies...

Wow, great!

> I put the CD into a laptop that
> Univ of Texas lets me check out.  It didn't work.
>
> Here is what happened.  I turned it on, once on it booted normally and
> I could open the CD pod.  I put your ISO cd in.  I rebooted.  It came
> up, I saw pictures of penguins and some sorta knoppix logo or some such.
> All well and good so far...The laptop had an "intel inside" logo on it
> making me believe it had an intel compatible processor....The last
> two lines printed out where these...
> 
> APM Bios found, power management functions enabled.
> PCMCIA found, starting cardmgr
> 
> ...and from that point on it froze.
>
> Murphy's Law.  It never works the first time, does it.
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix it?

I bet that laptop will work with some tweaking:

1. When you see the Knoppix logo, press F2.

2. At the boot prompt type "knoppix nopcmcia". (Since it froze
at the pcmcia step, let's try turning off pcmcia.)

If that doesn't work, try booting it with "knoppix nopcmcia noapm".

[At least your laptop gets further than my laptop.  My laptop
doesn't work at all.  It just says "No operating system found".]

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