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TheQuirk:
Aye. He is correct. But... Could you, uh, change your displayed name?

It's a bit, err, long.

Copperhead:
You also have to make sure that you are correctly burning *.iso images to a disk.  www.linuxiso.org has some HOWTOs of how to do this with some of the more popular burning utilities for Window$:

http://www.linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/howtoburn.html
 
Once you burn the CD correctly, make sure you have your BIOS set to boot from CD before Harddrive, like root@localhost said (If you have never messed around with your BIOS before, you are most likely using factory default settings which, more than likely, boot from the harddrive first. You will need to change that. Depending on your BIOS, this is usually one of the F keys ((F7 F2, etc. or the DEL key.)))

If you are using Knoppix, you have a full Linux system (a very adept one), right at your disposal. Plus, you didn't make even one change to your harddrive.  Naturally, the "Live" CDs run considerabley slower than an installed system. You do, however, have the option of installing Knoppix right to the harddrive, if you so desire. I like Knoppix. To serve a desktop system, you couldn't really ask for anything more. You get a fully working Debian-based distro that gives you APT, and it is A LOT easier to get rolling than an official Debian release.

To start you off, I found this tutorial to be informative, interesting, and well organized:

http://www.linux-tutorial.info/cgi-bin/display.pl?224&0&0&0&3

If you want to give the Knoppix harddrive install a try, Creedon ( a guy that used to post here ) wrote a tutorial:

http://www.linuxjunior.org/cgi-bin/pet/pet.cgi?SUBMIT=Display&id=82

If you have other questions, especially those that are initially confusing to a newbie (like partitioning and Linux device names), feel free to ask. The "help me install" topic is just too broad. You have to break it down, piece-by-piece, and let us know what is troublesome to you.  

eaeshamdevil:
thank you all for helping me , so much i appreciate it, my xp gets slower and slower by the minute.... billy bill know's wats up eh? as i speak im using nero to try burning the knoppix iso again, maybe i didn't do it right last time. also i'm gonna fuck around with bios now and tell it to boot from  c d instead of booting from disk. can i partition half the HD so i can half linux running 1 side and y'nknow xp on the other. is that possible? if so please please tell me how to - and is all this bios-fucking-around-with going to be reversible?

insomnia:

quote:Originally posted by foolishpersonwhoknowsnothing:
can i partition half the HD so i can half linux running 1 side and y'nknow xp on the other. is that possible?
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Knoppix doesn't need a hard drive (...well you can, but that's buggy and difficult...).
For a full (and easy) system, downlaod Redhat9.0 or Mandrake 9.1 (3cd's).

eaeshamdevil:
it.......mnever ....ends..... right now im on my shitty xp computer, i put knopix on my win 98 computer in the other room, and like somebody said, it's alot slower when being read from the cd rom drive, and said it was be alot faster if a partition HD install was done. alright redhat 9.0 , can you please give me a link? thanks for your input, if i could just get a link for the dl . and by the way- are there any specific system requirements for knoppix/and/or redhat?

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