Live CD freezes

[jcarkeys]

Hi, I downloaded Hardy Heron and wanted to give it a go on my laptop, an Everex SA2053T, today. I pop it in, choose "Try from CD without making changes", and it's going fine. The scroll bar moves back and forth a bit, then it freezes. No errors, no indication of anything, just stops and sits there as long as the computer does. I waited a couple of minutes, restarted, and did the check CD validity option, came out clean. I popped it into my desktop, worked fine.

My question is how can I enter a verbose mode to see what it's sticking on to get more help? I don't particularly want to just straight up install it when it doesn't work in Live CD mode.

Thanks!

[Pumalite]

The Live CD doesn't like your hardware. Try the Alternate CD.

[jcarkeys]

I'll just update this. I was searching to see whether the wireless chipset with the laptop was Linux-friendly, I stumbled across this page (http://www.poplarware.com/everexlinux.html) which is very helpful for this particular model, and this linked page (http://www.fitzenreiter.de/averatec/index-e.htm) which has a torrent that includes the settings so that LiveCD is enabled.

[Pumalite]

Congrats.