Solved my own problem by creating a boot diskette.
I still wonder what it is that makes the CD spinup on booting this O/S?
George
I just received my Knoppix 3.3 CD from TuxCDs.
I entered BIOS and changed the order of booting to CDROM, C, A and placed the Knoppix CD in the drive. When powering up the computer, the CD does not spin up and booting resorts to the HD O/S, W2K. Ideas on how to solve this problem?
TIA, George
Solved my own problem by creating a boot diskette.
I still wonder what it is that makes the CD spinup on booting this O/S?
George

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