Need Serious Help Installing

[le91688]

OMFG i cant take it, I tried changing my settings in nero so it wont overburn and it burned the CD but when i run it it get 94% through Copying Files and then i get tons of those errors i mentioned before. I did the MD5checksum and its the same!!!!!! I NEED HELP PLEASE BEFORE I GO CRAZY.

[le91688]

Ok im gonna try to solve this... ill tell u everything i've done

Made Boot Partition
Made Swap partition of 300MB
Made Root of 4GB(etx2)
I currently have nothing on the HD now so i dont want to dual boot, i just want Knoppix to start up
Downloaded ISO from Knopper.net
Ran the checksum for the iso and got the same number as in the FTP
Went into Nero Ultra 6
turned off Overburn(so it wont burn unless the iso can fit on the disk)
Ran at 48X
I load the boot disk(which boots perfectly)
I press Ctrl+alt+F1
I type Knoppix-Installer
then it takes me to the installer
I goto new Configuration
Choose my Root Partition
Choose Beginner Install
Set user name and all that crap
Goto install
Copying of files gets to 94% and then it starts shooting out error messages....

Does anyone have any idea where i went wrong

[le91688]

Can someone please help me figure out whats causing this problem?

[Harry Kuhman]

Ok im gonna try to solve this... ill tell u everything i've done

Made Boot Partition
Made Swap partition of 300MB
Made Root of 4GB(etx2)
I currently have nothing on the HD now so i dont want to dual boot, i just want Knoppix to start up
Downloaded ISO from Knopper.net
Ran the checksum for the iso and got the same number as in the FTP
Went into Nero Ultra 6
turned off Overburn(so it wont burn unless the iso can fit on the disk)
Ran at 48X
I load the boot disk(which boots perfectly)
I press Ctrl+alt+F1
I type Knoppix-Installer
then it takes me to the installer
I goto new Configuration
Choose my Root Partition
Choose Beginner Install
Set user name and all that crap
Goto install
Copying of files gets to 94% and then it starts shooting out error messages....

Does anyone have any idea where i went wrong

People frequently have probems with disks burnt this fast. I would burn a disk at 4x (or even reburn to CDRW to avoid wasting a disk). You needed to finalize the disk because when you do not finalize, the burning process writes additional information for the next session; while all of Knoppix would fit on the CD without overburn, the next session information would not. You might also try the nodma cheat code. Beyond this I believe the gods try to punish people for installing Knoppix to hard disk, have never done so, and can't give any other information.

[le91688]

Whats noDMA b/c the error i get is something to do with DMA timeout or something.
As for burning:
what should my settings in Nero be?
Im gonna give it another shot tonite.

[Harry Kuhman]

Whats noDMA b/c the error i get is something to do with DMA timeout or something.
As for burning:
what should my settings in Nero be?
Im gonna give it another shot tonite.

Different versions of Nero unfortuanately differ somewhat, but in general you need to open the ISO (you seem to have that part right or you would not have got this far), burn the CD at 4x (or slower) speed, burn it as a single session (finalize the disk, do not leave it open for more to be written to the disk). I like to make sure that I burn it as "disk at once" rather than "track ar once" but this shouldn't matter as you will only be writing one track anyway. You should not need to use overburn so you should not be asked (be sure you use a 700 meg CD and not a 650 meg one).

The nodma (not noDMA) cheat code turns off DMA (direct memory access) for the drive. I have seen some problems with some older drives that could not work right with DMA (which is now on by default in recent versions of Knoppix). When you boot you get a boot prompt. It goes away in a couple of seconds if you do nothing. At this prompt type knoppix nodma or knoppix26 nodma or type the F2 function key to see more information on cheat codes (what you see with f2 and f3 is not complete, however).

Just a suggestion, but sometimes when there is an error message it helps to note what it is exactly when asking for assistance, rather than not mentioning it and only later saying "the error i get is something to do with DMA timeout or something".

[le91688]

The error has something to do with ATAPI reset and DMA timeout i think... Ill tell ya exzactly what it says when i try again tonite.
I downloaded 3.7 and used Checksum and am currently burning it at 4x with nero...
I let ya know how i make out.

Thanks for all your help.