[TonyY]

I'm a newbie, although I have tinkered with Unix before today. I have just tried to run a PCLinuxOS v9.3 - big daddy - from my CD on an XP configured machine by simply altering the boot drive sequence. I get the list of boot options as expected and choose LIVECD - default. The PCLinuxOS coloured badge appears and starts the loading process, then I get an error message "ERROR: Unable to mount the livecd" - "dropping you to a limited shell". It then loads /initrd/bin/ash - ending with a message - "cant access tty; job control turned off" and then leaves me with the ash command prompt.

Bearing in mind this whole apparatus works perfectly well with XP at the moment and also that I have a perfectly normal IDE CD read drive unit, this was unexpected.

It looks very serious and basic to me - can anyone shed some light on what the problem might be / where to get help etc.

Many thanks - a newbie.

[TonyY]

Just to let people know - have tried the same CD on another machine and it runs fine - if a little slow.

Thanks.

[vtel57]

Probably a hardware issue on the first machine, Tony. PCLos doesn't like something on that machine.

[TonyY]

I'm also not an expert and a biker as well. What do you know !!!

[vtel57]

Bikers... yeah, we're all over the place these days.

[sjb007]

Im pretty new to linux but as a suggestion have you tried downloading the lastest vers of PCLinuxOS (TR3) and running the live iso from that. At least you will have the latest hardware & driver support with it which may let it run.

-> livecd-TR3.iso

[RootbeaR]

PCLinuxOS 2007
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/wiki/HomePage
Lots of good info here.

[TonyY]

Thanks for the suggestion - have been on holiday.

[RootbeaR]

Check this out
http://forums.techguy.org/random-dis...ml#post4596597