--You can turn the CD into an ISO image by booting it and doing the following:

' mkdir /mnt/blah '
' mount /dev/some-writable-partition-of-sufficient-size /mnt/blah -onoatime,rw '

' cd some-writable-area-that-has-700MB-free '
' time cat /dev/cdrom >knoppix-v999.iso '

--Then md5sum the .iso file and compare it with the md5sum from the FTP site:
ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/

--You may be better off doing this from a poorman's install; I don't know what would happen if the OS had to read something off the CD while it was doing the copy, but comparing the md5sums should catch any errors.

Quote Originally Posted by Drago
WOW! Some really good ideas! All right on the money. There's absolutely no reason I can't run KNOPPIX off the CD even after I install Mandrake. Very cool idea. The rest too.

BTW, from my cracking experience, I think for those of you reading this who didn't download ISOs (that right?) and aren't installing it onto hd, it would be a good idea to start off by backing up that CD any way you can.