Hi

Sorry hideous newbie questions I am afraid.

Burned the Knoppix CD and verified that all was well with the iso. Placed in CD-ROM drive and rebooted machine.

Machine read the CD and flashed up the screen telling me the version of knoppix etc. and gave me the "boot:" prompt. Entered the cheat code for keybard language to set to US and it said it was loading.

Picture of the linux penguin appeared with a flashing cursor beneath and after a minute this appeared

hde: drive not ready for command
hdf: drive not ready for command

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Please could someone suggest what I can do to get this to boot.

I am running an AMD 2000+ XP box with 512 of 333Mhz DDR Ram, 2x 20Gb Western Digital 20Gb drives one as primary and 1x 60 Gb Western Digital drive. the 60 and the second 20 are hanging off a Promise PCI IDE expander card.

I have a DVD ROM drive and a Yamaha burner. The machine is a dual boot Microsoft 98SE and XP build

Many thanks