----- Original Message ----- From: Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, February 4, 2005 8:21 am Subject: Knoppix [was Good distro for older machine?]
> 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 > interfacechokes. > > I've tried various boot switches to force CLI or cheap X, but nothing > I've tried works. Anyone know the secret sauce? try "screen 640x480" without quotes as switch. Check the cheatcodes text file on the CD for more settings such as vertical and horiz sync and color depth. Or just go to the command line with a "2" for a switch. Rich -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
