booting from knoppix problem

Ryan James rjames at csulb.edu
Fri Jan 28 21:45:31 UTC 2005


Use K3B's "burn image" option.  or whatever program.  it should have an
option to "burn cd image" or something along those lines.  the ISO
already has all the boot info, so you don't need to burn it as a
bootable cd (in fact, it will not work if you do).

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 13:40 -0800, Charles Malespin wrote:
> Hi, this is what I did to download knoppix.  I used one of the mirrror
> sites and downloaded this file to my computer
> KNOPPIX_V3.7-2004-12-08-EN
>  Then I used the CD burning data that came with my computer(Record
> Now! I think is what its called).  They have an option to burn data
> CDs as bootable.  Then they asked me to pick the image I wanted to
> make the boot CD from.  When I would go to the file where I had
> knoppix downloaded to it wasnt an .iso file which is what the CD
> software was looking for, so I had to tell it to look for all files.
> Only then would the knoppix file show up.  I would then burn that file
> which said was an image file...  And that is what I did for both
> knoppix and the rescue CD.  
> Charles




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