Hi Werner,

> Hardware ok by then? Size of RAM?

most probably a hardware problem.

Booting old woody, mounting the cdrdom and trying md5sum /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX yields read error messages after about 20 minutes. I don't see any reason for that, but the cause might be due the 8-12x RW media, the drive or anything else ...

I don't know if I have the time to check every possible cause.
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Bernhard