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Hello again,
I tried Installing Knoppix 3.7 by booting
from the CD into text-only mode, and with a couple of boot parameters (knoppix
vga=normal 2) it worked. This is encouraging, since Knoppix is based on Debian
(Sarge?). I really wanted Debian Sarge though. After going back to the my Sarge
CD, and unsuccessfully trying some boot parameters, I found a couple of
references to bug reports relating to DMA that couldn't be turned off, and took
a quick look at dmesg using "dmesg | grep hda". Sure enough, DMA appears to be
active despite booting via "linux ide=nodma", or just
"linux nodma".
The laptop is un-networked since my HPNA via
a Netgear PA101 is not yet supported. Would it be feasible to install Knoppix,
then "upgrade" to Sarge via the testing CD?
TIA,
Steve K.
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