Quote Originally Posted by ireland
i went ahead and burned the .iso to CD and have just put it into my broken laptop. Everything was going well but now am stuck here:

audit(1119382597.253:0): initialized

Welcome to the KNOPPIX live Linux-on-CD!

Scanning for USB/Firewire devices...Done
Accessing KNOPPIX CDROM at /dev/hdc..._

What's gone wrong? Its a partial download right?
Back up a bit. Did you determine why you think that the ISO is 4 meg when it should be almost 700 meg? How sure are you of that size?

Did you download by BitTorrent or from a mirror. If you downloaded from a mirror you absolutely have to check the md5 sum before burning. Did you do that? Was it right? If you download by BitTorrent you also got the md5 file. Wile it's not as important to make the check when using BitTorrent (BitTorrent does it's own checks on every segment), if you have any doubt about the file that you downloaded you might as well run the check and know for sure rather than asking people who really can't know if your download is bad or not.

If you checked the MD5 sum then you know if the file is good or not. If you can't be bothered then why should others expend effort in trying to help you when you ignore the advice that you are given? And if you ignore the advice to check the md5 sum, should we assume that it's likely that you're deciding to ignore other important key steps too?