Quote Originally Posted by marcelbraz30
I used an external CD writer and used HP my CD

If i can't use CD rom boot then is there any way to start the installation using floppy disk ?

please help
The CD that you made the way that you burnt it is just a copy of the Knoppix ISO. It is not bootable. (Some people know some tricks to bott from an iso file, but it takes another Knoppix bootable CD). I'm not clear on what software that you used. Is it named "HP my CD"? Does whatever it is have any option to burn from an ISo or a disk image (almost all burning software does)?

There have been links to free software for burning ISO files under XP, but I don't have them handy, you could search for them.

If all else fails, you could go to The Ahead NERO home page and download Nero from there. They will give you a free 30 day trial, which is more than enough time to burn your ISO file. Once you have a working copy of Knoppix then you can use the CD burner in that to burn future ISO files (actually, if you have only one drive that wouldn't work unless you "installed" Knoppix or have a gig of ram to use the "toram" cheat code, so you might want to make a CD of Damn Small Linux in your first 30 days. Samn Small Linux can be loaded to RAM, and then you should be able to use that to burn your next ISO.