Really Newbie Question

Hi

I've downloaded Knoppix, (3 times) Burned a bunch of CD's (Roxio) tried several different settings and can't get Knoppix to boot.

Roxio has a setting to burn a bootable CD but there are 4 options, no emulation, Hard Disk emulation, 1.44 floppy emulation, 2.88 floppy emulation. I've tried both none and hard disk emulation. Didn't seem like either of the floppy emulations was correct.

There are settings for sector count (default is 1) and Load Segment (default is 0x7c0) Do either of these things need to be specified?

If the image is downloaded right and burned properly. What files will be visible when you look at the cd in windows explorer? I'm seeing bootcat.bin and bootimg.bin. Should I see that? Should I see something else? This seems so basic, and everyone else seems to get it, but I'm stuck.


Thanks

Rick

I am having the exact same problem.

Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook with Windows XP.

Downloaded the .iso, confirmed successful download with the checksum file.

Entered the BIOS on start-up and moved CD/DVD/CD-RW to the first position in the boot queue (before floppy disk and hard disk).

Used Roxio to create a bootable CD. Attempted it with the Hard Disk Emulation and No Emulation options in Roxio.

With both emulation methods, when I slipped the bootable CD in the CD-RW drive and re-started the computer, all I got was a blinking cursor in the upper left corner of the screen. No Knoppix. :-/

Is the problem with Roxio?

Thoughts? Anyone?

well, as usual as soon as I ask the question I start looking around and figure it out.

In Roxio EZ cd, instead of using the file/new cd project, look down the list, under file there is record cd from cd image.

Just burned the cd and got the directories demos, KNOPPIX and Talks, the files autorun.bat, autorun.inf, index.html, and knoppix.ico.

Going to try to run it now.

Rick

The iso is a "perfect copy" of the CD, boot stuff and all, you just need to burn the iso image to CD. Sorry I haven't used roxio or adaptec cd-burner software, they use a different name for their default image not an iso, something else.

Do some searching around, I've seen instructions either here or on the knopper site about using roxio and nero to burn an iso image.

HTH

rock

Rick--

Discovered the same thing myself in the last 10 minutes. It's burning now....race to see which of us overcomes our newbieness first!

--g

Got it to run, worked better than I expected, had a bunch of software and was up and running on my DSL connection with no fuss. Too easy once I got the cd burned.

I'm also running a dell, dimension 8250, P4 2.4, 512rdram, I think it did not see my sound card, but it seemed to see my scsi drives and found the onboard network card, (win2K couldn't even do that) I'm back on windoze now, no problem with going back and forth as I've seen on some other posts.

I'm very excited about getting to play with this.

Thanks for the forum.

Yup, worked for me to. Up and running with Knoppix on my Dimension 8200 (P3, 1.8GHz, 512m). Found my sound card with no problem.

However, I don't have DSL (just dial-up), and it appears to not recognize the notebook's internal modem, so no Internet connection from within Knoppix (yet). Will need to play around with that some.

Logged on via my old Thinkpad 600X now so I didn't have to reboot to WinXP to respond.

:-)

I am inclined to say the problem is roxio. I tried TWICE with roxio to burn the ISO to no avail. first try with nero worked like a charm

--Your laptop's modem might be a Winmodem :(

--Check ' man wvdial ' and then ' wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf ' to see if it detects the modem.

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Originally Posted by gritter

However, I don't have DSL (just dial-up), and it appears to not recognize the notebook's internal modem, so no Internet connection from within Knoppix (yet). Will need to play around with that some.

Logged on via my old Thinkpad 600X now so I didn't have to reboot to WinXP to respond.

:-)

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