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All right, I burned the knoppix .iso file to a CD-RW and i booted up my computer w/ the CD in the drive, but it just booted into Windows. Does it have to be a CD-R? or am i just doing something wrong? and yes, i did burn it as an image.
I just noticed. Sometimes CD-RW are pretty flaky in my experience. Toss them away and get CD-R. They are cheap enough that you actually save money (time) using them.
no, it didn't work, but maybe it's because i just copied the CD-RW that i burned. I'm just going to download it again and try burning it to a CD-R right away. i'll check the checksum too.
Depends on your machine specs and spin rate of your cdrom drive ... I loaded it on an older 450Mhz PIII and it loaded the gui in about a two and a half minutes.
it's just been sitting at a blank screen for that long, and i don't know what to do. does anybody have any idea why it would be doing this for so long?
i'm using version 3.2, and when i typed knoppix 2, it just started booting up and said a lot of things couldn't be found and then just stopped after a while.
but when i booted up, it said version-2.78 knoppix booting...
so i don't know which one it is. it's the newest version available though. i said it was on there on 06-06-03.
Oops!
If it says it cannot detect your hardware and giving a different version, there is something wrong with the download or you are having unusual hardware (unlikely?)
I am afraid you will have to download knoppix again and use the checksum files to check on the iso (the site gives howto).
If you are fedup with downloading this again try to get one from someone in town who Has a working version.
If not go to the Morphix (morphix.sourceforge.net) site and download one of many scaled down knoppix versions which are half the size of the knoppix.
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