Please bear with me, I am a total newbie to Linux, and not super knowledgable about IT.
I stumbled on Knoppix as a way to try to rescue a friend's mess on their Win XP home PC. (I am trying to get write and copy access to the NTFS partition) After downloading the 698 MB image file and burning a CD, I tried verifying that the CD would boot on one of my PCs at work and it doesn't. I get the little penguin and the after it sees a couple of hardware things it looks for the CD-ROM. I get the message "looking for CDROM in /dev/scd0" and then an error message, "can't find Knoppix file system sorry" or similar and that's it. No boot.
The system I am testing it out on is a Gateway 400 Mh Intel Pentium II, 18 GB hard drive, 312 RAM 584 SRAM, MITSUMI CD-ROM FX320S.
Did I do something wrong?