New version 2003-09-05

**j.drake** · 09-10-2003, 04:46 AM

Originally Posted by SUOrangeman

Another problem with FAT32 on an XP box, is that XP has a maximum size of 32 MB for FAT32 partitions, ...

A minor point, but Microsoft hard-coded Win2K and WinXP to not allow you to *create* FAT32 partitions larger than 32GB. These OSes have no problem using larger FAT32 partitions. You just have to create them with another OS or third-party tools.

-SUO

Interesting. But don't you still have the 4 gig file size limit?

**Superstoned** · 09-10-2003, 04:54 PM

there's no space left on the cd

but if there was, I think it whould be very hard to make it possible, if it whould ever happen. You can just save your homedir to a hd or disk or whatever (removable) media...

**A. Jorge Garcia** · 09-11-2003, 12:06 AM

What is Linux_UDF? Is there some way to make a CDRW behave just like a floppy, only huge?

Regards,

**garyng** · 09-11-2003, 12:50 AM

Originally Posted by softgun

Hi all Knoppix users!

Imagine booting up the KNOPPIX CD, writing a document, saving it to your home directory or downloading stuff to your home directory, right click the file and click "write to CD" from the list that appears and everything is written to the CDRW media using Linux_UDF

No thank you. My experience tells me that CDRW is not a very reliable material used in this way. I keep these things to CF, there are a lot of cheap thumb drive and/or MP3 players that can serve this purpose.

**Superstoned** · 09-12-2003, 10:42 AM

hi! anyone else having problems burning the image on cd? I tried k3b, which gave no errors, but the cd is unreadable. then tried nero, which told me he was unable to perform the end-of-disc... seems like the iso is too big. In both cases I tried to burn on a cd-rw (700mb).
and stupid question - 700 mb = 80min? or should I burn on a (non-RW) 80min cd and have no problems? I dont like to try, cuz these cd's can only be used once

**Henk Poley** · 09-12-2003, 04:38 PM

Previouse versions have worked on 80min/700MB CD-RWs for me.

Have you tried a full wipe? You will need to do that now and then to flatten out the dips and bumps made by several times rewriting. Yes it takes some time.

btw, k3b doesn't do a full wipe when I tell it to, on my system. I need to use cdrecord then.

**j.drake** · 09-12-2003, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by Superstoned

hi! anyone else having problems burning the image on cd? I tried k3b, which gave no errors, but the cd is unreadable. then tried nero, which told me he was unable to perform the end-of-disc... seems like the iso is too big. In both cases I tried to burn on a cd-rw (700mb).
and stupid question - 700 mb = 80min? or should I burn on a (non-RW) 80min cd and have no problems? I dont like to try, cuz these cd's can only be used once

I had zero success with CD-RW, and had to abandon them in favor of CD-R. And the CD-R didn't work until I downloaded Nero.

**A. Jorge Garcia** · 09-12-2003, 07:59 PM

Let me second that! I've never gotten my CD-RW to make a KNOPPIX CD except on CD-R disks!! I've used Easy CD Recorder and cdrecord....

Regards,

**Superstoned** · 09-13-2003, 08:08 PM

So I guess I have to use winblows to burn it on a cd-R... pitty... Trying to get rid of it. I'll try it on a cd-R in k3b, then (if it doesnt work) in nero, and if that does work, I'll file a bugreport to k3b!!!

btw KDE-team has fixed something for me, already, in just a few hours - they can be damn fast... I tried to drag a window when switching desktop (ctrl-tab on my box) but that didnt work. I guess it should, cuz alt-tab when dragging files does work. So I filed a bugreport, and in just a few hours it was fixed. Can't wait for 3.1.4

cu

**Arthas** · 09-16-2003, 04:25 PM

Hi people

I have the same problem with the iso image i downloaded from the official mirrors. De md5-checksum is good but the iso can't be burned on cd by Nero because it detected an error in de image file.

I had some conversation with another forumuser here (Superstoned) and he had the same problem.
Now, when i convert this downloaded iso into a .bin file (just another image format) it DOES work. It can be burned to cd-r or -rw and is bootable like it should be.
To test further i converted this .bin back to .iso format and suddenly there isn't any problem anymore.
So, this means something did go wrong when the official knoppix iso was made. The files therein are ok, but the format to burn in on cd has an flaw.
(For reference, i used WinISO to convert the image to bin and back to iso again).

I wonder why there aren't more complaints yet but I hope this can be checked by official people perhaps?
It would be a pitty when future knoppix users are disappointed by this recent cannot-be-burned image.

greets