[NTLUG:Discuss] KnoppMyth

[Dennis Myhand]

Mike Hart wrote:

>I'm trying to install KnoppMyth and keep hanging after
>the install on first boot over X setup.  Can someone 
> with time (and development hardware) on their hands
>confirm this distro is broken and it isn't just me
>missing something obvious?
>
>http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html
>
>You will need a PC with a TV Card and an empty hard
>drive... Altho it is derived from Knoppix, but it must
>be installed to hard drive to be functional. 
>
>It takes about 10 minutes to do the install, then it
>tries to download NVIDIA drivers on the first boot and
>doesn't succeed (even tho I've got the box on a
>firewalled, DHCP served intranet) then I can't make
>any X work, even plain VGA 640x480x16 mode with server
>VESA or FBDEV.
>
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I installed KnoppMyth on an old Dell Optiplex with an ATI video card and 
it worked fine.  It may not be the distro which is broken, but something 
with the nVidia driver install.