New Knoppix release V3.3-2003-11-14

[JAlvoeiro]

You have to use overburning. Nero does that very well.
Jorge

However, if I open Nero to burn the image, it complains that the image size is too large to fit the CD! I am using normal 80 minute CDR. What am I missing? I tried setting disk at once and close disk (which is usually what the problem is) but it didn't help. I realize that this might be already explained somewhere but the only burning info I found was in german which I don't speak.

[marcvandoornik]

So, which kernel version does it have? Does "linux-kernel-h 2.5.999-test7- -> 0.5-1" mean it now has a 2.5.xx kernel? I'm slightly confused, as DistroWatch says it has kernel 2.4.22... (Sorry, I'm a bit of a noob). Thx!

[EdlinUser]

This is my first time with knoppix, so I downloaded the ISO (14-11-2003). MD5 seems to match, and the file size is 732,553,216.

I downloaded 2003-11-14-EN; the file size was 732,551,168. MD5 failed. I downloaded from another site. Same file size, MD5 failed again.

I burned a disc and it worked but I wonder if I should try again?

[djones]

I downloaded 2003-11-14-EN; the file size was 732,551,168. MD5 failed. I downloaded from another site. Same file size, MD5 failed again.

I burned a disc and it worked but I wonder if I should try again?

Download it again, but this time use BitTorrent. Your MD5 is pretty much guaranteed to be correct if you use BitTorrent.

I used BT to download this yesterday. Took less than two hours. I left BT running afterwards, and in fact it's still running; in the last 16 hours I have uploaded 500 MB of this file to other peers.

As stonent mentioned earlier, the torrents are here: http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de:6969/

Click the link in the Torrent column to get the torrent. (Clicking the link in the Name column will take you to a page with upload and download statistics.)

If you haven't installed BT yet, go here first: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/introduction.html



Here's a trick:

You've already downloaded 700 MB of file, but you don't know which parts of the file are correct and which are bad. Perhaps the first 699 MB of the file you have are correct. If this is true, then you can use BT to intelligently fix the file! This is because BT breaks the file into chunks and uses hash codes to check the validity of each chunk. If the first n chunks are correct, it will skip those and just download the other ones.

You can try this: Create a new destination folder to hold the BT download. Within this folder, create another folder called KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-11-14-EN (must be exactly this string, so copy & paste it from this message). Now move your ISO file to that folder.

When you open the torrent, tell BT to save the download to that new destination folder (not to the folder within it). Who knows, maybe this will work and you'll be done in five minutes...

[robwelch100]

In nero you need to select to have the cd finalized. This will alow you to burn it to disk and get rid of the error stating that it is too large. Nero 6 should ask you if you want to finalize the disk to make it fit at the time of the error.

[Aleu]

Guys,

First of all bfree thanks for your post here. I was looking for something very simillar to what you have proposed. Unfortunatelly, I do not know how to use your script.
Could anyone guide me through?

I have two Knoppix distros let say one from August and one from November 14th.
This is what I am doing so far:
1. I run knoppix from the old distro and give the command "dpkg -l > Knoppix_OLD"
2. I repeat this with a new distro "dpkg -l > Knoppix_NEW"
3. Then I run "diff Knoppix_OLD KNOPPIX_NEW and ..."?
I have your script saved as "Knoppix_diferences.pl" in the same directory.
Sould I add "#!/usr/bin/perl" at the very top of your script?
How can I use this script. What should be the correct procedure?
Thanks

[bfree]

I have two Knoppix distros let say one from August and one from November 14th.
This is what I am doing so far:
1. I run knoppix from the old distro and give the command "dpkg -l > Knoppix_OLD"
2. I repeat this with a new distro "dpkg -l > Knoppix_NEW"
3. Then I run "diff Knoppix_OLD KNOPPIX_NEW and ..."?
I have your script saved as "Knoppix_diferences.pl" in the same directory.
Sould I add "#!/usr/bin/perl" at the very top of your script?
How can I use this script. What should be the correct procedure?
Thanks

Sorry, I wasn't very clear about it! You are getting there but just need a couple more things.
First, you need to make the script I provided executable (chmod +x Knoppix_differences.pl) or else you will need to run it as "perl Knoppix_differences.pl". If you make it executable, you will need to add the #!/usr/bin/perl to the first line of the script. I will assume you make it executable for the remaining instructions.
Then you need to feed the diff between the files into the script. You could do "diff knoppix_old knoppix_new | ./Knoppix_differences.pl" or else you could do "diff knoppix_old knoppix_new > knoppix_differences.txt" and then "./Knoppix_differenes.pl knoppix_differences.txt". Either of these approaches will print out the information to the screen. If you want to save them into a file, just add "> knoppix_diff_results.txt" to the end of the command where you are running the perl script.
I hope this is all clear and makes sense.

[Aleu]

bfree - Thanks for the prompt response.

I was doing things the way you have described earlier, but it did not work. Therefore I have decided to erase everything and start from the begining and it works!
Thanks so much.

[Superstoned]

alot burn progs complain about the size, you can find more by searching on this topic. imho the size should be a little bit decreased, so there will be less problems. but thats just me...

[Barke]

First! Knoppix is the greatest! Thank you!
Knoppix 3.3 (9/24/03) takes 2:20 minutes to boot on my 600 Mhz PC. However, starting with 3.3 (11/03/03) it takes 6:35 minutes to boot! It's the same with 3.3 (11/14/03). Is it only me or are others seeing this as well? Will it be faster in the future again? Can I type something at boot to make it faster?
Thank you,
Ralph