Linux friendly hardware guy?
Robert Brockway
rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org
Mon Aug 1 03:37:11 UTC 2005
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Jason Shein wrote:
> At this point knoppix would be of great assistance due to it's exceptional
> hardware detection. Boot the knoppix cd, and as long as it boots properly,
> then open a shell and look through the logs and the output of dmesg for
> errors.
>
> if this is a low memory system then make sure you change the default window
> manager to something with a lighter memory footprint, such as icewm or
> fluxbox.
If the original poster is confortable with the shell and doesn't need a
GUI, passing "knoppix 2" [1] to the bootloader boots without a GUI (at
least it has with all the version of Knoppix I've done this with).
[1] Ie, passing run level 2 to the kernel.
Rob
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