vaio cdrom issues

[gloomrot]

I recently dl'd Knoppix. I burned the ISO image and rebooted to CD. I keep getting tons of errors. It seems things are missing from my cd. My CD drive searches and searches for stuff, making a wierd sound. When Knoppix finally does boot, the same thing happens when I try to access anything in Xwindows.

Is this normal? Are the countless missing data messages due to my hardware? Does Knoppix tend to run, PAINFULLY slow on notebooks? If my cd download was corrupted, how can I check it in Windows? I NEVER get errors dl'ing cd sized stuff elsewhere...

Thanks for your help.
Gloomrot

[OErjan]

did you check if the md5sum for the ISO checks out?
if not do that before you burn any more CD's
see this link for more
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Downloading_FAQ#Q:_What_are_these_strange_MD5_file s_that_accompany_the_ISO_CD_images.3F

Oh and and burn at LOW speed, 4X or so.