I'm not an advanced user. I am trying to retrieve data from an older computer-- it was rebuilt by a friend, and I'm afraid I don't know exactly what is in it. It has a cd-rom drive, and an external DVD-rom and external hard drive onto which I hope to copy the data I need to save. Windows is no longer running on the system. I want to boot into knoppix, and I have downloaded knoppix v 4.0.2. The problem I have is that I'm able to burn the iso image to a dvd but not to a cd-r and the old computer does not ahve an internal DVD, and without running knoppix, it doesn't have usb drivers or recognize the external devices.

Is there a way to create a bootable cd version of Knoppix? Thank you for your help. Any suggestions on how to get this to work with the old system will be a help.