Quote Originally Posted by daveca View Post
Q. Does the Live CD give an ISO, or a bootable disk? Start it with the ISO specification? The front page here indicates to get the CD and burn an image. Ive not used the Live CD to know for sure, just asking.
The ISO that's downloaded is to be burned to a CD (or DVD, if that's in the title of your download.) Once that's done (best done at SLOW speed if using Windows, I think) then you can boot the PC up off the CD/DVD and you'll have a Live-mode CD version of Linux. There are other options, too, such as ordering a disk or a flash-drive-version that can be mailed and then booted. There are also versions of Linux (aka "distros") that are intended for hd installation that are quite similar to Knoppix, i.e. Debian (which is the distribution Knoppix is based on) or Ubuntu (which is also based on Debian); both of those are available as LiveCDs, and Ubuntu installs straight off the Live-mode desktop. You can always extract an ISO-image off of a disk, Live-mode or not, if that's your interest.

Cheers!
Krishna