[Aleader-dev] Re: problems with ISO image

[William L. Jarrold]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:56:45PM -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:

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> 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.)

Thanks again for the fix.

>
> 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".]

Hmm.  Well, I guess there's always one step lower you can go.  (-;

Seriously, at the risk of being a lazy linux learner and encouraging an
irrelevant tangent in the discussion, I'd appreciate it if you could
explain briefly (e.g. =< 1 paragraph) to me what pcmcia is and why we can
turn it off.  Feel free to ignore this request.

Bill

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