trouble booting version 3.7

[justamailman]

but I dont see any md5 files how can I check than sorry of my ignorance and I just realize that I have Nero 5 and not 5.5 . Cant find file menu in here but there was an option of burning image I choose that it brought me to open files choose (iso nrg ) than saw the iso . file to burn choose it and burn it and iot did but end result is a nrg file that is all

[Harry Kuhman]

but I dont see any md5 files how can I check than sorry of my ignorance

There should be md5 files on the same site that you got your iso from. If not, all of the mirrors should have the same ISO files, so the md5 from any of the mirrors would work. Just be sure that you get the one with the same name as your ISO file, just with an md5 on the end.

[justamailman]

the check sum is ok but I guess my Nero is not

[atrick-pay]

For those without ISO burning ability (most new HP computers don't come with anything to burn ISO)
TeraByte has a great little (sigh Windows) program. http://terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/burncdcc.zip

[justamailman]

thank you all I finally got it done with my Nero 5 as described before but used a speed of 4X and it work this time

[justamailman]

Interesting but can we connect on the net from this to see it working and is there a cost to it?

[Harry Kuhman]

Interesting but can we connect on the net from this to see it working and is there a cost to it?

I do not understand what you are asking here. You might want to reword this and ask again.

thank you all I finally got it done with my Nero 5 as described before but used a speed of 4X and it work this time

I'm glad that you got it working this time. Too many people don't seem to believe the warnings about needing to burn the disk slowly. I'm not clear on why you had so much trouble with Nero 5.x though, even after you were aimed in the right direction, Could you explain what caused the confusion so that we might know to avoid it with others?

[justamailman]

Sorry for my english
well I think the problem was the driver(myself), not very litterate in ISO process. I did probably burn it before but too fast and it give me a file .nrg alone. Like I said before my Nero there is no file menu so I was confused there but finally saw at the bottom disc image and tried that first too fast and than as you suggest slowly but sure. I just open my Nero again and right at the beginning screen running it says again Nero 5.5 and in the program there is a popup somewhere inviting us to go to faster Nero 5.5 so I assume that I was not having it. Now I dont know what I have very confusing. When I said 5 it was after I had seen that popup.
For my last question I will try to be more clear. I boot with Knoppix, browse in there many place and saw that we can connect to the internet somewhere but could not configure it for some reason . I wanted to try the possibilities of Linux and see how everything work but again so new to all of this probably don't understand how to do it. May be there is something I am not aware of. Just would like to try it more. I hope it is better this time

[Harry Kuhman]

For my last question I will try to be more clear. I boot with Knoppix, browse in there many place and saw that we can connect to the internet somewhere but could not configure it for some reason . I wanted to try the possibilities of Linux and see how everything work but again so new to all of this probably don't understand how to do it. May be there is something I am not aware of. Just would like to try it more. I hope it is better this time

How you connect to the Internet depends on you and your service provider. Of course your service provider likely charges you for access, but there should be no additional cost for Knoppix or Linux. But sometimes because of poor equipment choices there are problems that do lead to extra expenses.

I connect through a DSL system. I always use a router with DSL. When I boot knoppix it get's it's configuration information automatically from the router, I'm on the Internet as soon as the boot finished (I usually just click on one of the links in the open browser window just to be sure everything is working). No setup is needed at all in this case, and nothing has been saved from session to session. I think that the same would be the case for a cable user even without a router, but one would be very foolish to run on high speed cable without the hardware firewall a router provides.

DSL users who insist on running without a router may need to run the PPPoE software (common in the U.S., or PPPoA software in the U.K.) Other areas may have slightly different versions of such software. Generally a hardware router sold in your area takes care of this for you, so if you are on DSL with a router you do not need to mess with PPPoE, without one you likely do.

High speed users who let themselves be provided with, or worse sold, a high speed connection with a USB interface rather than the more standard eithernet interface have more problems. There are some reports in these forums of people getting such things working, but they are a source of problems. And their use prevents the use of a hardware router, and the utility and protection it offers.

Dial-up users fall into two broad groups. Dial up users who have real hardware modems generally have no problems. Of course the software has to be told the number to dial, their account login information and so on, but most users seem to be able to deal with this. Unfortunately, a recent trend in modems is to replace much of the dedicate hardware with just a simple A to D , D to A chip and make the computer do much of the work by running specisl digital procesing software in the computer. Unfortunately, the software provided for this usually works only under Windoes and these modems have come to be marketed as "WinModems". This is an amazingly stupid trend, it sucks a lot of computing power and locks you into a lot of Operating System issues. Microsoft must like it and I expect they did a lot to promote it. It also makes very little sense in a world where even a greeting card may have a computer and the other costs for the computer's modem's circuit board, connections and the rest are already there. The real cost savings in making a WinModem rather than a real modem must be in pennies, not dollars, but the trend continues. The Linux world has writen their own software to get some such modems to work, but it's a problem with each new modem. Of you are on a dial-up service and have a real hardware modem then you should have no probblem dialing in with a Knoppix based system. If you have a software modem then your sucess may depend on what brand and model of modem (and what chipset it uses).

[plmmsg]

Hi,

My final CD (V3.8) look like this, but still wont boot in Knoppix.
/boot
/KNOPPIX
/autorun.bat
/autorun.inf
/autorun
/cdrom.ico
/index.html

I am hving a Win 2K O/S with NTFS parition. Do you think this is the problem. Thanks.