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edallica
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 Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 1:55 pm Post subject: knoppix |
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hey guys got an old computer i want to use as a server so i thought the best way to do this was to have linux on it.
i was trying to install knoppix on it. i get the boot procedure ok but as soon as the desktop should appear the screen goes dead as though there is nothing getting sent to the monitor. the pc originally had win98 on it. its a 266 MHz with 128Mb RAM, which fits the knoppix specs. im trying to boot it from a cd.
any helkp would be great, im not sure is this just a windows forum?
cheers
edo
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stan_qaz
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I'm not sure what the commands are but you should be able to give it one when it starts to boot to tell it to not load the graphics desktop but come up in command line mode. That will make finding the graphics glitch easier. It is probably just a setting that is being detected incorrectly on your video card.
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scuzzman
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If you look at the file /etc/inittab you should see a line similar to this one:
This is your systems default runlevel. Around that line, it will display the other various runlevels and what they are. Find the one for command-line or console enviroment, and change the 5 to that number. Now as root do this in a console:
After that's finished, do this:
This will put you back into multi-user mode as root. Logout/login as normal user and try to startx, and report the errors.
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edallica
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hey i got knoppix running from the cd.
at the boot screen i typed "failsafe" and the desktop successfully loaded.
cheers for the help guys
edo
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