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    Can't boot from CD-ROM on IBM Thinkpad T40

    New to Knoppix, please forgive if this has been covered too often.

    Trying to use Knoppix on a new IBM Thinkpad T40 (type 237392U) to shrink the NTFS partition with XP in order to install Linux. Can't even boot from the Knoppix v3.3 2003-09-22 CD-ROM, getting errors-
    scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: 0x03 00 00 40 00
    Current sd0b:00: sns = 70 3
    ....
    cloop: Read error at pos 10205664 in file /cdrom/KNOPPIX/NKOPPIX, 28756 bytes lost.
    ...

    Have read the docs and tried the cheatcode 'knoppix testcd', but it reports all is fine; md5sum also checks out OK; even booted an older Thinkpad T20 to Knoppix with the same CD without problem. The CD-ROM drive on the T40 is a Matshita UJDA745 DVD/CDRW. Any suggestions?

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    Try booting with noscsi or even failsafe

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    Thanks for the suggestion, but noscsi and failsafe don't work either. I'm starting to think the problem is with the CD itself (eventhough it can be read on a different laptop). Will have to burn another CD to see.

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    It seems that perhaps your cdrom drive is causing the problems. (just a guess). It is possible to copy the KNOPPIX compressed file system to hdd and boot it w/ a floppy disk. Don't know if that's an option for you or not.

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    Unfortunately, not at present. The T40 doesn't come with a floppy drive, nor do I have a USB floppy drive.

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