Good Grief!! Can't Load, Won't Load

[Medicate]

Hi, as you may tell I am a new user, or attempted user, of knoppix.

I have an AthlonXP2400+ 512Mb memory 120Gb hard discs (80+40) I run an older nVidia graphics card. My keyboard and mouse are usb.

When I reconfigured my BIOS to boot from CD everything seemed to be ok until I got stuck on an A\: prompt which baffled me.

I have never had a problem booting from CD whenever doing a clean reinstall of XP, am I missing something? Do I need a floppy to boot?

Sorry I can't remember exactly what was thrown up, I think it said something like, DRDOS?? then the A prompt!!

I know I'm useless, but then again, I've never been this adventurous with regards to OS.

Any and all help gratefully accepted.

[Medicate]

Could the usb keyboard and mouse be part of the problem?

[firebyrd10]

No don't think it was the keyboard or mouse.

DRDOS? that sounds like something you'd get off a bootable floppy.

How did you burn the ISO?
From the sounds of it you made a bootdisk useing a floppy image. Probably if you look at the disk you'll see one big file.

You need to burn the .iso as a disk image.

[shah]

You burn the iso wrongly....I believed you select burn bootable cd and it use drdos as boot image.
Select burn image and choose the iso.

or

read this http://www.bay-wolf.com/burnimage.htm