trouble booting version 3.7

**justamailman** · 04-12-2005, 03:28 AM

I have downloaded v 3.7 . It took me several days being on dial up. I have set up the bios for CDrom than tried to boot with Knoppix in . But nothing is happening, no boot from CD instead it goes to my hardrive and boot windows normally. I have to say that I have a boot manager "bootit" because I have 2 hard drives one with XP home and the other XP PRP. Could that be the problem. How come I can't even explore the CD? What is next to solve the problem. You understand that I hesitate to restart the download being so long and days of waiting

**atrick-pay** · 04-12-2005, 04:01 AM

I have TeraByte BootIt only problem I found was that if I tried to boot the cd through
BootIt (I.E. next boot device or CD option) then Knoppix would start to
load then fail. but once I went to bios and changed boot order to CD first I didn't have a problem.

I guess if your sure your CD drive is bootable (loads a windows CD or the like)
then maybe try unpluging the HDDs that way they couldn't boot for sure.

**justamailman** · 04-13-2005, 09:39 PM

I have try many thing nothing works

**UnderScore** · 04-13-2005, 09:47 PM

How did you burn the ISO file to the CDR? Did you burn it as a image? The resulting CDR should have on it:
/boot
/KNOPPIX
/autorun.bat
/autorun.inf
/autorun
/cdrom.ico
/index.html

If you do not see anything like that then it was not burned properly. Please specify your CDR burning software so that either myself or others can help you.

**justamailman** · 04-13-2005, 09:55 PM

all I see on it is this
KNOPPIX v 3.7 - 2004-08-12-EN.iso
. I suppose that is why now

**justamailman** · 04-14-2005, 12:20 AM

I have Nero 5.5 but usually I burn with the installed wizard in windows. Please help

**Harry Kuhman** · 04-14-2005, 12:31 AM

Originally Posted by justamailman

I have Nero 5.5 but usually I burn with the installed wizard in windows. Please help

Use Nero. Details in the downloading faq found by following the documentation link at the top of the page. You have to burn the iso as an image, available from the Nero 5.5 file menu. If you downloaded from a mrror make sure that you check the md5 sum. And burn at a slow speed (I suggest 4x). Do not drag the file into the file area, do not select any option to make it bootable.

**UnderScore** · 04-14-2005, 12:33 AM

Q: What are these strange MD5 files that accompany the ISO CD images?

A: The files with the .md5 extension contain checksums for the actual CD ISO images (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/iso). A checksum is a "matching number" for checking files. One can verify that the file matches its original down to the smallest detail. When you download both the ISO image for the CD and its corresponding .md5 file, you can verify that your download was complete and that the contents are unchanged by typing "md5sum -c filename.md5" under Linux/Unix.

Further information about MD5 and programs for various OS's can be found at LinuxISO.org (http://www.linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/verifyiso.html) and The MD5 Protocol Documentation (http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/). You can download a Windows™ version at this site (http://www.toast442.org/md5gui.shtml).

If you have verified the md5sums then please continue.

As for burning the ISO image, don't use the wizard. Try the File menu then Open. In the file open dialog box see if you set the file type filter to ISO. If you can set it to ISO type, find and choose the Knoppix ISO file. Then burn it.
If that does not work then see if there is an entry in the File menu called something like "Burn from Image". Again if this exists you will find and choose the Knoppix ISO file and burn that.

Here is a guide that describes burning Knoppix with Nero 6. I am not suggesting that you have to get Nero 6 but this guide might make it easier to understand the process. http://www.rocketfodder.pwp.blueyond...Nero_page1.htm

I hope this helps.
James

**Harry Kuhman** · 04-14-2005, 12:37 AM

Originally Posted by UnderScore

As for burning the ISO image, don't use the wizard. Try the File menu then Open.

Actually James, this is what you have to do in Nero 6 but Nero 5.x is different. I'm pretty sure it's described in the wiki information, but the command to burn from an image is somewhat lower down the list of commands in the file menu, not the open command.