not booting

[Use her name.]

i searched for my error message and didn't find anything, so i'm starting this new thread. i tried booting a knoppix CD on my friend's windows 98 gateway, but it said, "Disk error 10, AX = 4280, drive EF".

[Harry Kuhman]

At what point did it say this? Had it printed out anything before this? Was this before of after the Knoppix boot prompt?

Did you follow all of the instructions in the downloading faq, including all burning instructions for your software and cautions about checking the md5 sum and burning at a slow speed?

[Use her name.]

This was after the boot prompt. I probably didn't burn it at a slow speed.

[Harry Kuhman]

I probably didn't burn it at a slow speed.

It's probably a bad burn.

Also, Did you check the md5 sum?

If that doesn't fix it, then it would be helpful to tell us how far it is getting in the boot process (what was said right before that problem). And maybe even to use the expert cheat code and step through the boot process manually (take notes while you do).

[KNoppix newbi]

I'ts got nothing to do with speed and every thing to do with weather or not you burned the compact disc as a bootable datacd or as a bootable iso cd or cd like you use to insytall windows. So I suggedt you go back to your burnning application and select burn as bootable iso cd (international Standerds Organization).

[Harry Kuhman]

I'ts got nothing to do with speed and every thing to do with.....

Sorry newbie, but you're dead wrong. Perhaps you should read the forums a bit before giving out advice like this. We have seem many, many cases of the burn speed directly affecting the result, like this one and this one or even this. I don't like that fast speed burns are not reliable. I didn't even want to believe it myself before I became convinced of it, but at least I didn't post saying that others had given out bad information before I had the facts. Sure, the other burning steps are important too. That's why I pointed Use her name to the downloading (and burning) faq. But don't start posting here claims that burning speed doesn't matter, too many people know better and will call you on it.