Knoppix Linux question

[Newfdog]

Hi all.. I recently downloaded an iso of Knoppix Linux v3.8.2. After
burning it to cd I tried it and the computer will not boot from it. The
machine accesses the drive and then shuts off and restarts again. I do
have the cdrom set as the first boot device. Do I have to make this cd
bootable before I burn the iso? How can I make this work?

Newfdog

 

[Sheldon]

Hi all.. I recently downloaded an iso of Knoppix Linux v3.8.2. After
burning it to cd I tried it and the computer will not boot from it. The
machine accesses the drive and then shuts off and restarts again. I do
have the cdrom set as the first boot device.

Do I have to make this cd bootable before I burn the iso?
How can I make this work?

One burns it as an "image".

See BURNCDCC at http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html

 

[Lord Possum]

Hi all.. I recently downloaded an iso of Knoppix Linux v3.8.2. After
burning it to cd I tried it and the computer will not boot from it. The
machine accesses the drive and then shuts off and restarts again. I do
have the cdrom set as the first boot device. Do I have to make this cd
bootable before I burn the iso? How can I make this work?

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Am assuming you did not merely burn the file xxxx.iso to the CD. An
..ISO file must be sector-burned to the CD by such as ...Nero, e.g.
Burning the usual typical Knoppix .ISO images correctly, should produce
the desired bootable CD resulting in operating Knoppix directly from the
disk, or providing a GUI for installing 3.8.2 onto a new hard drive.

 

[Newfdog]

One burns it as an "image".

See BURNCDCC at http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html

That's what I did.

 

[Newfdog]

==========

Am assuming you did not merely burn the file xxxx.iso to the CD. An
.ISO file must be sector-burned to the CD by such as ...Nero, e.g.
Burning the usual typical Knoppix .ISO images correctly, should produce
the desired bootable CD resulting in operating Knoppix directly from the
disk, or providing a GUI for installing 3.8.2 onto a new hard drive.

That's what I did. It doesn't work.

 

[old jon]

Hi all.. I recently downloaded an iso of Knoppix Linux v3.8.2. After
burning it to cd I tried it and the computer will not boot from it. The
machine accesses the drive and then shuts off and restarts again. I do
have the cdrom set as the first boot device. Do I have to make this cd
bootable before I burn the iso? How can I make this work?

Newfdog

Open the CD you created in windows. Have you just got a file with .iso,
or have you got a bunch of stuff there ?.

 

[JC]

Hi all.. I recently downloaded an iso of Knoppix Linux v3.8.2. After
burning it to cd I tried it and the computer will not boot from it. The
machine accesses the drive and then shuts off and restarts again. I do
have the cdrom set as the first boot device. Do I have to make this cd
bootable before I burn the iso? How can I make this work?

Newfdog

Obviously you burnt it as an image, which you previously said. If you
burnt it in Nero, what speed did you use to burn? I find iso files burn
better at 4x speed rather than something like 24x for example.

The iso file may be corrupt too, I have had an issue where an Ubuntu iso
was corrupt, but a freshly downloaded one from a different server was fine.

Try re-burning at 4x if you didnt already and if that doesn't work, try
grabbing another iso from a different server.

 

[Newfdog]

Open the CD you created in windows. Have you just got a file with .iso,
or have you got a bunch of stuff there ?.

a bunch of stuff there...
2 folders boot and Knoppix
5 files autorun.bat, autorun.inf, cdrom.ico and index.html

 

[Newfdog]

Obviously you burnt it as an image, which you previously said. If you
burnt it in Nero, what speed did you use to burn? I find iso files burn
better at 4x speed rather than something like 24x for example.

The iso file may be corrupt too, I have had an issue where an Ubuntu iso
was corrupt, but a freshly downloaded one from a different server was fine.

Try re-burning at 4x if you didnt already and if that doesn't work, try
grabbing another iso from a different server.

I didn't use nero I used copy to cd\dvd. I'll try nero and I'll try
another download. thanks

 

[Art Luttrell]

After >> burning it to cd I tried it and the computer will not boot
from it. >> The machine accesses the drive and then shuts off and
restarts again. >> I do have the cdrom set as the first boot device.
Do I have to make >> this cd bootable before I burn the iso? How can
I make this work?

I didn't use nero I used copy to cd\dvd. I'll try nero and I'll try
another download. thanks

Have your setup your computer bios to boot from the cd?

-Art- (not Art)

 

[bambam]

Obviously you burnt it as an image, which you previously said. If you
burnt it in Nero, what speed did you use to burn? I find iso files
burn better at 4x speed rather than something like 24x for example.

The iso file may be corrupt too, I have had an issue where an Ubuntu
iso was corrupt, but a freshly downloaded one from a different server
was fine.

Try re-burning at 4x if you didnt already and if that doesn't work,
try grabbing another iso from a different server.

Well first he should really check the MD5 checksum-

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/4342/2/

 

[Newfdog]

Obviously you burnt it as an image, which you previously said. If you
burnt it in Nero, what speed did you use to burn? I find iso files burn
better at 4x speed rather than something like 24x for example.

The iso file may be corrupt too, I have had an issue where an Ubuntu iso
was corrupt, but a freshly downloaded one from a different server was fine.

Try re-burning at 4x if you didnt already and if that doesn't work, try
grabbing another iso from a different server.

Ok I tried burning at a different speed and I tried another iso ver 3.9.
still no go. I suspect something is amiss with the computer. It is an
old Pentium 166 running win98se which I use to test things out. It does
however meet all the criteria for running Linux. Oddly though it will
boot from the win98 cd. Thanks everyone for your help and if anyone can
suggest anything else I will try it.

Newfdog

 

[kcaj]

Hi all.. I recently downloaded an iso of Knoppix Linux v3.8.2. After
burning it to cd I tried it and the computer will not boot from it. The
machine accesses the drive and then shuts off and restarts again. I do
have the cdrom set as the first boot device. Do I have to make this cd
bootable before I burn the iso? How can I make this work?

Newfdog

Go here to have all your questions answered.
http://mepislovers.org/

 

[bambam]

Ok I tried burning at a different speed and I tried another iso ver 3.9.
still no go. I suspect something is amiss with the computer. It is an
old Pentium 166 running win98se which I use to test things out. It does
however meet all the criteria for running Linux. Oddly though it will
boot from the win98 cd. Thanks everyone for your help and if anyone can
suggest anything else I will try it.

So what happens if you put your newly burnt CD into another computer?
There is no need to play safe with Knoppix, it won't hurt your main
computer.

 

[Chris Lee]

That's what I did. It doesn't work.

Learn how to use the software you're using by reading the freaking
instructions that came *WITH* it instead of whining about how
it doesn't work here.

 

[Chris Lee]

I didn't use nero I used copy to cd\dvd. I'll try nero and I'll try
another download. thanks

Here's a clue. Instead of using Nero and other crap Windows software like it,
use a software package that's designed to burn .ISO files to a blank cdrom or
dvd.

 

[Newfdog]

Learn how to use the software you're using by reading the freaking
instructions that came *WITH* it instead of whining about how
it doesn't work here.

what the **** are you talking about arsehole. The software burned no
problem the problem is that the computer won't boot from the cd. So take
your ****ing useless self and crawl back into the shithole you came out
of you ****ing shithead.

 

[Newfdog]

Here's a clue. Instead of using Nero and other crap Windows software like it,
use a software package that's designed to burn .ISO files to a blank cdrom or
dvd.

once again go **** yourself Chris lee ....... you're nothing but a
****ing arsehole

 

[Al Klein]

The software burned no problem the problem is that the computer won't boot from the cd.

Did you burn it as a bootable CD or as just a data CD?