I need to make bootable cd with this thing called knoppix on it. Knoppix is a linux tool that can live on a bootable CD.

1. Boot Iso Download
2. Free Iso Burner

I need it to help with a hosed windows system. I have never made a bootable cd before. The tools that I have are Easy CD Creator and burnatonce. I downloaded a whopping 689 MB ISO file from the knoppix site.

My drive is an NEC DVD-RW. Has anyone ever made a knoppix disk or understand what is needed to make an ISO file bootable? Both Easy CD Creator and burnatonce have settings to make bootable disks, but it seems like you need a some kind of boot image file (like a.bin or something). Is that part of the ISO file? I really don't understand how these work. Thanks in advance! What is KNOPPIX速?

How to use the Knoppix live CD. You can boot up the Knoppix live CD. Consult your CD Burner documentation on how to burn an iso image.

KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it.

How is KNOPPIX started? To start the CD, set up the BIOS of your computer to boot off the CD, put the CD in the drive, and power up the computer. If your computer doesn't support this option, you have to use a boot disk.

You can create this disk from the image in KNOPPIX/boot.img on the CD. You can either download it and burn it to a Cd or You can order the newest beta versions of the KNOPPIX-CD from various, independent places, and have them sent to you by mail. PeteLong: After visiting the Roxio site, I am beginning to think that my bundled version of Easy CD Creator (5.3.3.10) does not support burning ISO.

Thanks to you and to LucF. I suspected it was a bootable file, but the first two that I tried failed. I think my drive was being flaky. Just after I posted my question, my third burn finished (with burnatonce).

I only burned the iso file. When I tried to boot from it, it worked! Well, sort of. There were a lot of errors as it start ed up. Maybe I was supposed to also burn those other text files on the disk (called knoppix-cheatcodes.txt and packages.txt). I will try another burn with those.

Aslo, I am burning on CD-RW, that doesn't matter, right? My oldest son burned one for me. I think you just download everything on the download site and then burn it to a CD and then adjust you Bios so to look at the Cd rom first and just put the Cd as you ar rebooting and it just recongizes i9t and starts it up. At least that is the way mind works. A newsreel history of the third reich. Fred Langa called it the perfect rescue disk if all elese fails, it has the capatility of burning files to a Cd. I have done that.

You ust to be able to buy the CD already to go for $2.99 but now I guess they are around $5 or $6 bucks. LRI41, fyi from all you need to do is download one file, nothing more, nothing less, all you need is the ISO file as all is included within the ISO. Including the ability to boot from it. It's a great tool and with a bit looking around the internet, you can certainly turn it into 'the perfect rescue disk if all elese fails' yes, Fred Langa (don't know who he is.) is right about that. I just love it, I made one myself which includes F-prot antivirus, full support to read and write to NTFS harddisks etc.

This is the best tool I've been able to find at the moment. Maybe that BootPE thingy, I haven't tried it yet might be able to do the same.

If you allready knew all this, please ignore this posting:) LucF. I don't really need a boot floppy, but it would be nice to have. Maybe the boot floppy image comes on the disk that you buy? Still having a little trouble. The disks burned with Easy CD don't seem to be bootable. I am burning another now with burnatonce.

I select the image to burn. Then check 'make bootable' under iso settings. There is a button for the boot image and by default it lists.bin types but not.iso types. If I select all file types I can see the knoppix file and select it. After compiling, it says I have 1390MB-it's trying to write the iso twice. Maybe I don't select a file in the first part, just use the bootable iso setting to select it.

LucF: If this new one boots, can I give you an example of the errors? (if there are any). I am definitely hoping to use this as a rescure disk for a different computer. Seems PeteLongs link only explains how to create an image (correct me if I'm wrong) I've just checked and this is how you should write the image: 1) Navigate in Explorer to the.ISO file you have downloaded, and double click on it. 2) Choose the write speed you want to use. 3) You will have three Create options: A) Test B) Test & Create CD C) Create CD You can use Create CD or Test and Create CD 4) At the CD Creation Setup dialog box, make sure the Write Method is set to Disc-At-Once and Close CD 5) Select the desired write speed and create options, if necessary, then press OK to begin recording. Afterwards the cd-rom will be bootable and should run Knoppix without any problems.

Gosh, sorry guys, I'm still not getting it. Good thing I am using a CD-RW. Can it be that maybe my disk or drive is flaky? I am doing a full erase before trying again. Since I already have an iso file or image, I just need to write that image to disk and forget about setting boot options and iso settings, right? I can sort of follow your instructions, LucF, except they seem to be slightly different for ecdc 5. Maybe the file I downloaded is corrupt.

I downloaded it with BitTorrent since the other way would have taken 30 hours of more. I have tried burning 7 or 8 times with two brand new cdrws. None of the easy cd settings seem to make it work. The one time I did get a cd to boot was with burnatonce. Since it started with errors I thought there was something wrong with the way I recorded. So I erased it.

I will try again. I downloaded it with BitTorrent since the other way would have taken 30 hours of more.I just need to write that image to disk and forget about setting boot options and iso settings, right?Good thing I am using a CD-RW.I can sort of follow your instructions, LucF, except they seem to be slightly different for ecdc 5.

Using Your Knoppix CD as a Rescue CD, and Present Using Your Knoppix CD as a Rescue CD by Steve Litt Contents:. Executive Summary The worst has happened. Your Linux box won't boot, and your data sits there unreachable. Luckily, you have your trusty Knoppix CD, so you can bust into the most locked up system, as long as the filesystems are still intact. Armed with your Knoppix disk, you can probably re-enable booting. But even if that's not possible, you can copy your data to a spare partition and send it, via the network, to another machine. This document discusses the various ways you can use your Knoppix CD to bust back into a zapped machine, take control, and either re-enable booting or move your data to safety.

Disclaimer Obviously, you use this document at your own risk. I am not responsible for any damage or injury caused by your use of this document, or caused by errors and/or omissions in this document. If that's not acceptable to you, you may not use this document. By using this document you are accepting this disclaimer.

What is Knoppix Knoppix is a Linux distro that can run completely off a bootable CD, with no need for a hard disk. Its primary use is as a Linux advocacy tool.

Give a Knoppix CD to a Windows user, tell him to boot to that CD (most Windows users are smart enough to know how to set the bios to boot a CD), and watch the fun. Within a minute Knoppix has found all his hardware, and has even mounted all his partitions read-only, in a nice, easy KDE environment. The Windows user can experiment with OpenOffice, Evolution, Mozilla, Gimp, and many other wonderful pieces of Linux software. Like all Linux distros, when you boot to the Knoppix CD you come to a boot prompt. On high quality hardware you'd typically press Enter, but in some situations you'll need to pass boot parameters (Knoppix calls them 'cheat codes') to the kernel. The most frequently needed parameters involve video, because Knoppix's default resolution might produce too-small fonts on a small monitor, or it might overdrive the monitor.

For an overdriven monitor you can either set the vertical refresh rate (knoppix xvrefresh=) or the geometry (knoppix screen=). To see a list of all the possible boot parameters, press the F2 button at the boot prompt.

The following is a list of the boot parameters on my Knoppix CD: Boot param Purpose knoppix lang= Choose language/keyboard knoppix desktop= Use window manager other than KDE knoppix screen= 1280x1024, 1024x768, 800x600,640x480 etc knoppix xserver= Use X server other than default XFree86 knoppix wheelmouse Use IMPS/2-compatible wheelmouse knoppix xvrefresh=60 Use 60Hz vertical refresh. Try this or lower values if your monitor overdrives knoppix 2 Textmode only (runlevel 2) knoppix 1 Single user mode (runlevel 1). Use this to perform rescue operations knoppix floppyconfig Run 'knoppix.sh' from a floppy. Knoppix no Disable hardware detection on a device knoppix blind brltty= Use Braille-Terminal, no X failsafe (Almost) no hardware detection expert Interactive startup/setup You can combine boot parameters. For instance, you could do this: knoppix wheelmouse xvrefresh=60 lang=us Once you press enter on the boot prompt (whether or not you input boot parameters), a rather long boot process takes place. The process is long because Knoppix is detecting all your hardware, and readonly mounting all your partitions. Knoppix as an Investigational Tool Before your repair a non-booting system, you need to understand it.

Boot Iso Download

Rescue CD's such as the Red Hat Installer and the old Linuxcare CD's don't make such investigation easy. Knoppix does. Knoppix' default boot is GUI mode. The desktop contains an icon for every partition in the machine. Single-clicking any of these partitions brings up its contents in a file manager so you can instantly deduce its normal mountpoint. Write down each partition device and its mountpoint so that you have the necessary information when you do the actual repair.

You might want to look at some configuration files. And naturally you'll want to browse the logs. Finally, check out the 'files' in the /proc directory, especially /proc/meminfo and /proc/partitions. If there was a question about features like sound and video, check whether they work in Knoppix. If so, copy their configuration files to a place on one of the system's partitions. Once your investigation's complete, it's time to bust in and take control of the machine. Backing Up from the Knoppix Environment In many cases, your first responsibility is to protect the data on a no-boot computer.

Free Iso Burner

Boot to your Knoppix CD. And take measures to copy the data off the computer. By far the easiest way is to copy the data to a CD.