Pls help the newbee

[rwcitek]

Hello and welcome to Knoppix.net.

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I've had a hard drive crash and am trying to recover the data. I download v4.0.2 from a mirror and burned to CD. The file is an .ISO file. When I try to boot via the cd, my machine (Dell 4700) says "select boot device not availible."

Assuming your machine can boot from bootable CDs, then this sounds like you burnt the ISO as as file and not as an image. When you burn the ISO as an image you will then see this directory structure when you browse the CD:

/cdrom
|-- KNOPPIX
|   |-- KNOPPIX
|   |-- KNOPPIX-FAQ-EN.txt
|   |-- KNOPPIX-FAQ-ES.txt
|   |-- KNOPPIX-FAQ-FR.txt
|   |-- KNOPPIX-FAQ-IT.txt
|   |-- KNOPPIX-FAQ-NL.txt
|   |-- KNOPPIX-FAQ.txt
|   |-- LICENSE.txt
|   |-- MkImage-ct.exe
|   |-- README_Security.txt
|   |-- background.jpg
|   |-- images
|   |   |-- knoppix-24-1.jpg
|   |   |-- knoppix-header.gif
|   |   `-- knoppix-header.png
|   |-- index.html
|   |-- index_dk.html
|   |-- index_en.html
|   |-- index_es.html
|   |-- index_fr.html
|   |-- index_it.html
|   |-- index_jp.html
|   |-- index_nl.html
|   |-- index_ru.html
|   |-- knoppix-cheatcodes.txt
|   |-- knoppix-version
|   |-- linux-ntfs
|   |   |-- FOR-DEVELOPERS.txt
|   |   |-- fuse.tar.bz2
|   |   `-- linux-ntfs-knoppix_1.12.0-WIP-2.tar.gz
|   |-- md5sums
|   |-- mkimg-de.exe
|   `-- mkimg-src.zip
|-- autorun.bat
|-- autorun.inf
|-- autorun.pif
|-- boot
|   `-- isolinux
|       |-- boot.cat
|       |-- boot.msg
|       |-- f2
|       |-- f3
|       |-- german.kbd
|       |-- isolinux.bin
|       |-- isolinux.cfg
|       |-- linux
|       |-- logo.16
|       |-- memtest
|       `-- minirt.gz
|-- cdrom.ico
`-- index.html

Do you see the file "index.html" on the CD? What happens when you open it in a browser?

Have a read through the Downloading FAQ for more details.

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org