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I am thinking of getting the DVD version of Knoppix 4.0.2 because of the extra software. My question is, since it is not a DVD video or other similar media, will I be able to boot from the DVD on a computer that only has a CD-ROM Drive? I would not like to spend the hours downloading the DVD version only to have it not work in my CD-ROM. Please advise! Thanx.
A DVD will not work in a CDROM drive. The CDROM drive does not have a sensitive enough laser to read the data on a DVD.
Download the CD image & not the DVD image.
If you download the Knoppix 4.02 DVD ISO image in order to boot and run the knoppix dvd applications using this file,Quote:
Originally Posted by superusmagister
you actually don't need to burn this file on a DVD nor to have a DVD-Rom drive to boot from it, there is another way:
Some people call it the "poor man install", some other the "power man install"...
This is a way allowing to boot from the ISO cd or dvd image file stored in your hdd, cf:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11796 & http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Win_Partition
I use it every day. You will have the same limitations as booting from the cd/dvd
except that it boots way faster and obviously you don't need a cd/DVD reader.
Hope this helps,
Gilles
--Another possibility is to use Vmware and mount the DVD ISO as a virtual drive. I did this 'way back when the original Knoppix DVD Beta came out, and I didn't have a DVD drive.
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Originally Posted by ruymbeke