May have been a corrupted .iso or a bad burn! I got Knoppix 3.7 and it boots perfectly. The only 'but' is that it will not recognise my sound card or doesn't know which drivers to use (it's an on-board 6 channel AC 97, although I only use 2 channels)

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Deep thought ;)

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