On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 08:21:59 -0800, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:37:14PM -0800, Rich Ernst wrote:
> > There are 3 types of install now from Knoppix v3.7 at least. One like
> > the CD, I suspect it remains compressed, but will know tomorrow as I
> > just did the install on a machine.
> >
> > Two, an install with hardware detection
> >
> > Three, the old Debian type install.
> >
> > Not sure of all the diffs as I didn't research it at all.
> >
> > Rich
> >
>
> There is a question I have about Knoppix. It's helped me a couple of
> times, but I've had problems booting it other times whenever I've had
> such old monitors (I use them to maintain servers) that the X interface
> chokes.
>
> I've tried various boot switches to force CLI or cheap X, but nothing
> I've tried works. Anyone know the secret sauce?
You have tried "knoppix 2" at the first boot prompt? This goes into
character screen mode after it finishes booting. The initial
scrolling screen showing the boot-up messages may be sent at a video
rate that your monitor doesn't support, but have patience and the
video will revert to something simple.
There is also a boot-time switch to set the horizontal and vertical
scan rates for the X video. Again, this seems not to affect the
boot-time messages, so they may still be invisible.
carl
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