On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 09:29, Rowling, Jill wrote: > Hi all, > > Out of curiosity I booted my home PC with a new Knoppix 3.3 CD ... but no > luck this time. > It died with a kernel panic as it doesn't know about the SCSI system I > think, Adaptec 29160 controller iirc. > This is the first time I've ever had a Knoppix fail on me: usually they are > the best distro to see if the hardware works with Linux. > Mind you the CD was a freebie so I don't even know if it as a proper ISO on > it... but it went through most of the motions of loading various drivers. It > would probably work if I manually specified all the hardware. > > Anyone else tried this distro on SCSI X86 hardware? No, but my Knoppix 3.2 failed to pick up the mouse (!!) on an old Compaq laptop.
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