What Am I doing wrong (Knoppix instalation probelms)

From: angel (peeny07nothisbit_at_hotmail.co.uk)
Date: 10/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:00:33 -0000

Hi,

I must start by saying I'm a complete newbie to the world of iso's etc so
please be gentle with me. I'm also a complete newbie to linux too so I'm
unsure as to whether I'm in the right group. (a pointer to the right one or
a FAQ if I'm not would be much appreciated)

I recently inherited a computer to which I wanted to try out the Linux OS
and I liked the sound of the bootable Live CD as a starting point so I
downloaded the Knoppix OS from one of the mirror sites. It came in the
"Winrar" zipped format. When I extracted the files, it extracted into one
file called "Knoppix_V3.9-2005-05-27-EN.ISO" but that was also in the zipped
Winrar format. So when I extracted that one it became a folder called
"Knoppix_V3.9-2005-05-27-EN" which contained 3 "autorun" files, an "index"
file and a file called "cdrom" and two further folders called "Boot" and
"Knoppix"

Now I assumed that these extracted files and folders were the ones to burn
on to disk and so I did, but as yet, I have not managed to get it to boot
from the dvd. (I've already changed the bios settings for the computer to
boot from cd/dvd so I know that isn't the problem).

I haven't a clue what I'm doing wrong, any help would be very much
appreciated.

thnx!

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