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Old November 7th, 2007, 05:40 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Help me with my Knoppix 5.1.1

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I need major help with my version of knoppix, i've put the download onto a disc and changed my bios to boot from "usb CDROM" but when i insert the disc on booting the laptop up it doesn't work...
I run of Windows XP Home Edition...I think my bios is Phoenix if that help...


Is there any help for this problem?


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Old November 7th, 2007, 07:12 PM     #2 (permalink)
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my version of Knoppix is 5.1.1

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Old November 7th, 2007, 08:13 PM     #3 (permalink)
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How did you burn the CD?
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I used something called "DVD Decrypter" to burn the CD from ISO format to a proper CD format, I also used NTI CD & DVD Maker 7...

I Burned the dowloaded item.
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Old November 7th, 2007, 09:07 PM     #5 (permalink)
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I find that sometimes, for some reason, I can't get certain discs to boot unless I disable the hard drive completely in the boot sequence. I can set CDROM as the first boot priority, but it'll just skip right over and boot the HDD anyway. The computer I'm typing this from is just one such case. Dell Dimension 4550.

Try disabling all boot devices except the CDROM and see what happens.
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How would i do that on an ACER Laptop?
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The Acer's Make is Aspire 5100
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Old November 7th, 2007, 09:28 PM     #8 (permalink)
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Err... the same general area you changed it to boot from USB CDROM?

Manual:
http://csd.acer.com.tw/acer/URMUL1.N...4?OpenDocument

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Boot sequence
To set the boot sequence in the BIOS utility, activate the BIOS utility, then select
Boot from the categories listed at the top of the screen.

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Old November 8th, 2007, 12:50 AM     #9 (permalink)
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USB CD?

Just to be sure you did this right.

Use deepburner

When you go into your BIOS where you set the first boot device. Disable everything except the CD drive. Usually this is done by pressing the space bar or there may be a disable button. Press F1 while you highlight a device to get a bit of help.
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Thanks, i'll try it and get back to you
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