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Flying Llama

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Aug 4, 2004
737
0
Los Angeles
I downloaded the .iso file, burned it to a cd with toast, then boot up from it. I got a sort of full-screen command line. i pushed enter and it started to boot. when it finally finished, a desktop with nothing but a little window, similar to terminal. if i clicked the desktop, not right clicked, a contextual menu came up with some useless stuff. the entire sreen had black lines going down like i had an old brocken crt. what did i do wrong? please help!
 

grapes911

Moderator emeritus
Jul 28, 2003
6,995
10
Citizens Bank Park
It sounds like the wrong driver loaded. It probably wasn't anything you did. Try getting the gentoo LiveCD. As a linux user, I like it better than knoppix. Make sure you get the right version for your system.
 
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