[ballpark570]

If I want to run a knoppix live cd on my PC, does there need to be some type of operating system on the hard drive or will it boot and run from the rom drive with a hard drive that is empty ?

[oblivious69]

your hard drive can be empty.

[400025]

hey Im new to linux and I want to burn a knoppix cd. I downloaded a knoppix distribution and it came with some other files [md5 and sha1] plus a help file when I burn my cd should I put these files on the cd with the iso?

[techno_lust]

I can't say for sure. I took the easy way out and bought a ready made disk off ebay for 5 bucks

[Rashid786]

Nah, you shouldn't. I just burned the .iso straight to CD-R. BTW, what burner are yer gonna use? If Nero, I wouldn't reccommend it. Thats what I done and wasted a disc. I recommend using ISO Burner (sorry, I dont have a link ) It is designed to burn .iso's, and so does it perfectly...use that to burn just the .iso image onto the disc. No help files or anything...

Hope that helps

-Rashid786-

[tsunam]

nero is fine as long as you don't select, make this disc bootable. the iso that you will burn (it will open to a lot of files) is bootable by itself

[ShavedApe]

the md5 and sha1 are checksums

what you would do is run a program to find the md5 or sha1 value of the file you downloaded, and compare it to the values that are provided with the iso

this way you can make sure there weren't any erors downloading or burning the file, or that the image hasn't been tampered with by a third party

[400025]

Thanks for the feedback I use burn4free and I have found it to be very good, it has a burn iso feature on it so I will try that.

[400025]

Also what program can I use to check the value of theas checksums?

[ShavedApe]

some burn programs show an md5 at the end, i'm not sure about burn4free.

there's a bunch of md5 programs for windows
go to download.com and search for md5. look for programs that find "message digests"

[jakoval]

MD5sum Calculators for Windows

[400025]

thanks for the info, programs work great