How to boot from disk

[rwcitek]

I have recently purchased a new computer & have a copy of Freeduc 1.5 burn't to a re-writeable disc, It seems to boot fine on my other computers but when I select to boot from my disc drive the screen goes blank & about a minute later it proceeds to load Windows XP. my disc drives are ASUS DVD-E616P3H & a LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S are these drive known for problems when booting Freeduc?

So you never see the Knoppix boot splash screen, correct? If that's the case, I'd suspect that the CD-ROM can't read the CD properly. Try burning a new copy at a slower speed.

Regards,
- Robert
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