Ok This is my first try at KnoppMyth. My system is as follows:

PIII 550
448 SDRAM
120 WD SE HD
Generic NIC
Matrox Marvel G200-tv
SB Live

With Auto-Install I get to formating /dev/hda1 with ext2 and it freezes at 20%. I've read that some people freeze at 29% and they use a vga=normal command, which didn't work for me. Any ideas would be great.

Hopefully others will have suggestions; I would say to try to burn your CD again at a slower speed. You're using parallel ATA and not serial, right?

does the screen blank out before it freezes?

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Yes, I am using parallel ATA. The screen does not "blank" out, but there is a black box that appears on the progress bar after a minute or so, but it does not always appear. I will try to burn the iso again at a lower speed. I thank you for your suggestions.

This may be a stupid question, but you are trying to install R5A16 and not R4V5 arent you? R4 releases used to freeze like this on some peoples hardware.

Yes I am trying to install R5A16. I'm about to give the newly burned iso a try.

So here I am... Laptop in hand typeing to you wonderful folks while I stare at my MythBox sitting at 20%. I burned a new iso, at 12x and 8x, can't make it any slower. So I don't think its the cd. I guess the next step is to start tearing it down piece by piece.

Ok. I've tried all of the jumper settings, with and without the DDO and i'm still stuck at 20%. At this point, would it work if I put the HD on another, newer system, loaded KnoppMyth and then loaded the drive into this box???

If I just installed KnoppMyth on a seperate computer and then re-installed the HD in this box, would KnoppMyth find and recognize the different hardware?

That's kind of a low spec CPU for this application... Also have we actually had anyone report success using KnoppMyth with that video/capture card?

not sure about that capture card, but it shouldn't have anything to do with formatting the drive. I was wondering though if the bios on such an old mb supports a 120Gb drive. I'm not really sure what would stop the process during format or copy.

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As far as the specs, the card is hardware based encoding and doesn't take a lot of specs to run it. The bios has been bypassed with a DDO, which didn't help and therefore removed. I have installed Mandrake and Fedora on a 160 GB with the same MB and Processor in a different box, so I don't know why it is different here. I installed Knoppmyth on a newer Box with this drive and it reports this error after starting Linux:

c011ac94
*pde = 00000000
0ops: 000 [#19]
PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c011ac94>] Not tainted VL1
EFLAGS: 00010282 (2.6.11.9-chw-2)



I figure since the formatting is computer, i'm going to do a manual installation and try and run a new installation on this box. Thanks for your suggestions.