5.1 wont load from CD

Hay guise, trying out knoppix on a new laptop that I aquired, but is there any way to uhm, make it work? xD
I boot it with all avilable and thinkable bootflags, works of course with failsafe, but not much else, mouse(touchpad) won't work there f.ex nor the nic, so.. well, roughly the error I get is;

"loading CD from /dev/hdc1/" and it just sticks there, for well about atleast 10 minutes until I got pissed and turned it off and tried something else, any help available would be sweet, cheers mates.