Linked by Joel Pomales on Wed 12th May 2004 19:38 UTC
I've been trying Linux on and off for a couple of years. My first experience with Linux was with a version of Slackware (can't remember) way back in 1996. At the time the installation was so daunting that I gave up all together. For a little background I consider myself a proficient computer user.
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i'd been trying to boot my friend's dell poweredge 4200 into some sort of *nix. Every boot method i'd tried fail, usually as it was uncompressing the kernel or something equally damning. With known good discs. Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, all failed, even under a variety of kernel parameteres which were supposed to help (mostly scsi stuff, iirc). We put knoppix in there and boom, it worked.
It kind of reminds me of that lore with the one wire switch and the chess playing computer demo. Juju which just wasnt right. But it worked with knoppix, and it was debian from then on in.