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In a few cases the hardware detection process can cause your computer to lock up. In this eventuality, you must notice where the lock happens and reboot your PC. At the boot prompt of the CDROM, get into "advanced option" (typing 'F2'). There you can deactivate the detection of the problematic peripherals. For instance, if the lock happens upon the detection of USB, enter the command 'knoppix nousb'.
N.B.: you can catenate options like in 'knoppix nousb nopcmcia'
In that case, a problem happened upon detecting your screen. It happens sometimes with older screens with a smaller size (14" or 15").
You can first check that the CDROM is working, by pressing simultaneously on the keys 'Ctrl Alt -' or 'Ctrl Alt +' (use the + and - of the numeric keypad). You should get the desktop displayed with a lower resolution, but in a greater virtual screen.
To avoid this misbehavior, you can at boot time enter the option 'knoppix xvrefresh=60' or 'knoppix screen=800x600' (usual resolutions are 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024).
You can find on the CDROM an image of a floppy disk which can enable you to activate it.
In MS Windows: insert a blank floppy disk in your drive and just execute the utility mkfloppy.bat from the CDROM.
In Linux: insert a blank floppy disk in your drive and execute the command mkfloppy.sh from the CDROM.
If the above mentioned method does not work for you, and if you have a laptop, enter the option 'knoppix fb600x600' (for other resolutions, you can try fb640x480, fb1024x768, fb1280x1024).
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