booting to cd.

[tymlls05]

i have 2 cdrom drives, dvd and regular... ive tried putting my knoppix cd in both but it never detects the cd or something. i cant ever see the knoppix screen... i have Windows XP media center... how can i change the options to read the cd before hard drive? i burned the file to a data cd, then i burned it as an image.... any help? thanks guys.

tyler

[boycott]

Hi,

you can change setup options in BIOS.
The first driver for booting should be CD drive.

[UnderScore]

Did you read the frequently asked questions about downloading, checking ISO file with md5 checksums, & burning at the Downloading FAQ? It contains alot of helpful information make sure you get a good burn.
Once you have checked the MD5 checksums & then burned the ISO as an image then in Windows explorer, you should see the contents of the CDR as follows:

E:\>dir
 Volume in drive E is KNOPPIX
 Volume Serial Number is 3DE1-E762

 Directory of E:\

12/09/2004  05:15a      <DIR>          KNOPPIX
06/17/2001  04:50a                  54 autorun.bat
02/22/2003  11:23p                  45 autorun.inf
05/01/2004  04:35p                 967 autorun.pif
01/10/2004  04:40p      <DIR>          boot
03/02/2004  05:28p               3,262 cdrom.ico
11/04/2004  09:28p               2,049 index.html
               5 File(s)          6,377 bytes
               2 Dir(s)               0 bytes free

or see the image http://img71.imageshack.us/my.php?im...pixlist5xa.jpg

Once you have confirmed that everything is OK & the CDR burn is good. Then see the FAQ My computer won't boot from CD. What should I do?

[tymlls05]

do i need the asc and sha1 files?

[UnderScore]

No, just the ISO file and a MD5 file.

[tymlls05]

...uhm i left the md5 out and burnt the iso as image (my mistake alst time was burning as a data image)... leaving the md5 file out bad? it works now at least lol.

[Harry Kuhman]

...uhm i left the md5 out and burnt the iso as image (my mistake alst time was burning as a data image)... leaving the md5 file out bad? it works now at least lol.

You haven't even bothered to find out what the md5 file is, but expect others to take time to answer your question, right?
Read the Downloading FAQ in the documentation section.