New version 2003-09-05

[Superstoned]

welcome, arthas

and tnx for the reply, hope this can be fixed...

btw I downloaded my iso using bittorrent, and checked the md5sum afterwards (after experiencing problems...).

[Arthas]

thnx superstoned

I have experimented some more and i found this weird thing. The md5 of the original KNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-09-05-EN.iso downloaded from the mirror ftp://ftp.knoppix.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/knoppix/ checks out allright. Now this is strange because it can't be burned by me and others.

After the little conversion adventure to bin and back to iso i made a new md5 of this newly made iso (i changed ofcourse nothin in the files, only the cd-rom format has been altered) and i found out it is exactly the same as the original iso. But... this time i CAN burn it to cd-r or rw without any problems and everything works fine.

So dig this: i have here two iso files with the same name and the same md5 and only one of them works fine.
If you get it, I get it

[Henk Poley]

Hehe, it is possible that this is a accidental bitrot (on that server) that matches to the same MD5. It is very unlikely though. I think it has more to do with the ISO file now being cached in RAM, so you won't get buffer-underruns. I know, burn-proof/JustLink/etc. should make bufferunderruns less 'lethal' but still it can be just the bit that takes it.

[iggyHack]

OK, i'm not stoned, there is an issue with the iso. I'll try the WinISO and see how it reacts. I tried all of the above and still couldn't burn an image

[Zuron007]

I also tried to burn the new vesion using the method of converting to bin and then back to iso using winiso but without success. I went out and got myself a cd rw and finally was able to burn the image using nero. Problem is that when i try to boot from the cd knoppix tells me that it cant load the root file system/ directory and once i type "exit" i get a kernel panic. Is this whole version this problematic? Anyways, i am going to try a few more things to see what i can do...anybody who would like to lend a helping hand is very welcome.