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mpauls

02-03-2006, 12:30 PM

I am brand new to Linux. I downloaded the following:

grubboot.zip

knoppix4.0.2 .iso (I am 99% sure that it is not the live cd.)

I also got all the other stuff from the knoppix ftp link. like the .md5, .sha1 files.

I want to put linux on a second computer that has windows xp. I really want to learn linux through and through, but I cant get it running. The image disk that I made from the download is in its drive when I reboot, but when all I get is a flashing underscore on a black screen. I read somewhere that I should try rawrite. A also read that someone put the file directly on their desktop and did not need a floppy disk in order for the computer to read the CD. I prefer the ladder.
Thanks, mp

je_fro

02-03-2006, 12:59 PM

you need to burn an iso in a special way, from windows. check this:
http://linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/howtoburn.html
I also recall using rawrite to write floppies, but I don't think you'll need the grub disk if you can boot from cdrom.
Also, please use a relevant title in the future. Thanks!

blackbelt_jones

02-03-2006, 04:54 PM

The.iso file is probably what you want to burn the live CD, and unless your computer is ancient, and needs a floppy to boot, the CD should be all you need to run Knoppix. If your computer is relatively new, and you can't boot the knoppix disk, it probably means that you need to make an adjustment in the bios. We'll cross that bridge whern we get to it.

You can tell if the .iso file is the live CD from the size. A Live Cd typically runs between 550 to just over 700 MB, enough to fill a CD.

If you're using Nero, I think that the function you are looking for is "burn image" or something like that.

Regarding a title for your thread, a good rule of thumb is to use a title that will make it easier for someone who is having the same problem to find your thread in a search.

mpauls

02-03-2006, 05:09 PM

Ok I apparently did not download the file correctly must have been my software. I installed cdburnerxp pro, and it seemed to work. Here is the kicker. It loads, seems to be working properly, a few screens pass something about partitions and then I get to a dos screen I type dir and then the promt that ends in exe. seems to be going smoothly (as far as I know) but the next screen is in f#$@@*g German. the file was knoppix_V4.0.2CD-2005-09-23.iso This is the second time That I have had to download this damn 700000mb file, and I don't want to do it again.
thanks ahead of time, mp.

woodsmoke

02-09-2006, 12:24 PM

Hi,
could you come back as to whether you are on dialup or cable or whatever?

The classic way of downloading was to download the md5checksum and I did that on the very first Feedora Core 3 and never have done it since. But, then again, I use cable so it probably is needed if you are on dialup. The checsum is a little program that checks what you downloaded against what you were supposed to download.....just to make sure everyything is there.

Since you have windoze, do you have Nero? My first download was using the Old EZ CD Creator 4.. if you use it you don't just make a "cd" you go to file create cd image....in the box, you'll see save as file type cd image and below that .iso...

However, the thing just didn't seem to make a useable image, and the reason for this was, I think, the same reason that I sometimes get ruined cds making cds of my lp records(I'm a movie buff) the thing always has buffer "underruns"...the newer version probably works better....but then I've read some posts that say that the newer one(s) are just bloated versions of mine....dunno...might be badmouthing for no reason...anyway, if that is what you have...give it a try..

So....I bought Nero and never looked back until I got was introduced to deepburn.....

With Ahead Nero you do NOT make "bootable cd". it will brun the .iso for you....but it won't be an .iso.....I did that I think twice....before I got my head screwed on straight....In the first box, "what would you like to burn?" go to disc image , select the .iso and then in file types you have to go all the way to next to bottom..Image files...select the .iso......and you're on your way....Nero is how I burned all of my .isos...except for the last few with deep burner.

I tried a LOT of distros.... a lot of live cds and only got Fedora Core 3 and Simply Mepis to install and only Fedora to actually find everything...

When I found Xandros, they download as a bittorrent and your computer ships stuff off to other computers while it is downloading.,....not YOUR files....it is a kind of "sharing" way of moving downloads around, so things get done for free as it were...keeping costs down.....

And they also provided "deep burner"....when you open it you get a box, just click the .iso button...the next box is burn .iso image...click normal cd, unless you want slim, this is for the cover..then go through basically the same steps to select the .iso and burn it...

There are advocates of burning at lower speeds and I have done that, but I still use the very first same cd for xandros that I burned at 52x speed. There are also those that say that the "real" difference between things is that a comercial cd is "pressed" and not "burned" and that is why they load......

I really dunnoooo...

Anyhow...with the link provided in the above post, by je_fro, which is a great link by the way,...., and hopefully some of what I said making at least a little sense...I'm not too bright...older'n dirt! you oughta be fine....holler back on what happened!

ain't xandros great!
woodsmoke

woodsmoke

02-09-2006, 12:30 PM

Hi,
could you come back as to whether you are on dialup or cable or whatever?

The classic way of downloading was to download the md5checsum and I did that on the very first Feedora Core 3 and never have done it since. But, then again, I use cable so it probably is needed if you are on dialup. The checsum is a little program that checks what you downloaded against what you were supposed to download.....just to make sure everyything is there.

Since you have windoze, do you have Nero? My first download was using the Old EZ CD Creator 4.. if you use it you don't just make a "cd" you go to file create cd image....in the box, you'll see save as file type cd image and below that .iso...

However, the thing just didn't seem to make a useable image.

So....I bought Nero and never looked back until I got was introduced to deepburn.....

With Ahead Nero you do NOT make "bootable cd". In the first box, what would you like to burn go to disc image , select the .iso and then in file types you have to go all the way to next to bottom..Image files...select the .iso......and you're on your way....Nero is how I burned all of my .isos...

I tried a LOT of distros.... a lot of live cds and only got Fedora Core 3 and Simply Mepis to install and only Fedora to actually find everything...

When I found Xandros they download as a bittorrent and your computer ships stuff off to other computers while it is downloading.....not YOUR files....it is a kind of "sharing" way of moving downloads around....

And they also provided "deep burner"....when you open it you get a box, just click the .iso button...the next box is burn .iso image...click normal cd, unless you want slim, this is for the cover..then go through basically the same steps to select the .iso and burn it...

There are advocates of burning at lower speeds and I have done that, but I still use the same cd for xandros that I burned at 52x speed. There are also those that say that the "real" difference between things is that a comercial cd is "pressed" and not "burned" and that is why they load......

I really dunnoooo...

Anyhow...with the link provided in the above post, which is a great link by the way...., and hopefully some of what I said making at least a little sense...I'm not too bright...older'n dirt! you oughta be fine....holler back on what happened!

ain't xandros great!
woodsmoke

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