[Quantian-general] MD5SUM errors

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

(resending, forgot to CC the list)

On 16 December 2005 at 17:35, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
| Interestingly enough, the way I stumbled on this solution was to reboot 
| after the kernel panic and hit "F2" and "F3" to see what the boot 
| options were. I saw "knoppix testcd" to test the integrity of the burn, 
| and went for it. Surprisingly enough, everything came up roses. :)
| 
| Dirk, is it expected behavior to require the user to type in something 
| at the boot prompt? My recollection is that Knoppix and its derivatives 

No, it's not. 

| come up with "sensible defaults" if you just hit "Enter" or if you let 
| it time out. I haven't done much with Knoppix 4.0.2 yet; I use Knoppix 
| as a rescue CD at work and 3.6 boots just fine on all of our systems. :)

I tend to test this by booting directly off the KNOPPIX files inside the iso
(using a method described in one of the HOWTOs) so I didn't see this.

Dirk

| 
| Gill, Jack wrote:
| 
| >Typing "knoppix lang=en" at the boot prompt solved the kernel panic
| >problem.  Thanks, all.
| >
| >Jack

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