Hi to all,

I'm totally a newby to linux. I saw knoppix at a pc service while the technician booted it from the CD. I liked it and decided to download and try it on my PC. I immediately knew if it can be booted from CD it can be booted from the hard drive also (must be much faster). When I downloaded the ISO file I unpacked it (with WinRar) to see the contents and unfortunately deleted the original ISO file since I thought it can be booted by simply editing the boot.ini in XP and point to the cdrom.ico or edit the autorun.inf file, write it on CD and when booting from CD the autorun.ico file to run the cdrom.ico file.

But never mind now. Now as I've read trough how to boot from the hard drive I managed to have a menu list and a startup schreen upon choosing "Knoppix 5.01 from hda1 ISO". This is how far I got. Then the page says somthing like "error inserting KNOPPIX/modules/cloop.ko"

I read trough the forum on this error message and most say it is either because of a bad ISO file or a bad hard drive. It is propably a bad ISO file because...

The ISO file I'm using now is what I rewrote with NERO and it is now 730MB. I remember the file being under 700MB (about 695) when I downloaded it so this is what makes me think the error message is because the original ISO file was different than the current one I have done with NERO.

I even tried with different programs like "MagicISO" but I couldn't manage to push the file-size lower than 730MB whatever configuration I choose in the ISO making options.

My question is... How can reconvert the unpacked Knoppix content to ISO and with which program. Can this be done or I need to download Knoppix again. I don't have broadband connection so this last option could be quite frustrating.

In a nutshell... I have Knoppix unpacked on the hard drive but I don't have the original ISO file. How can I reconvert it to it's original state (ISO).

I use Win-XP-sp2, NTFS filesystem