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If you really are asking how to burn a live CD, you need to do a little more research on how to use Linux because you are wasting your time. It is not user friendly like Windows is and you will not have a clue on how to use it. With a live CD you cant dual boot from it anyways..

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You don’t need to install Knoppix, it’s bootable from CD so it just loads into RAM without touching the hard drive.

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Hello, and thanks for the question. I’ll take a stab at answering it.

Knoppix is a great way to get familiarized with Linux without risking damage to your system. Knoppix is a Live distribution. This means that upon booting, Knoppix will use your computer’s memory (RAM) to perform functions normally done on the hard drive. This will leave a little less RAM for working with, but most Linux distros (distributions) are not RAM-heavy to begin with, so you should be OK unless you have a rather old machine.

The upside of a Live distro is that any changes you make to the system are temporary. You can simply turn your computer off, remove the CD, then turn it on again, and no trace of the Live system will remain. (Also useful if you are paranoid about leaving traces of what you do on your computer. Simply do your work in the Live system.)

The downside of a Live distro is exactly the same as the upside. You will not be able to save any changes to the system. No bookmarks, no documents, no settings — nothing will remain after you reboot the computer. (There are ways around this in Knoppix but they are beyond the scope of this answer.)

Contrary to what it may seem like, Knoppix can be installed permanently on your computer and used as any other Linux distro. For this, you may want to look into some dual-booting HOWTO on the web. I also strongly suggest a desktop-oriented distro if you are planning to do that, after you’ve become a little more familiar with Linux. Some popular choices are Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora Core, Gentoo, Mandriva, and so on. You need to do some research there too as they are not all equally friendly or easy to install and maintain.

Here’s how to obtain Knoppix and use it. Go to the Knoppix website at and you’ll see two gray bars on the top of the page with links on them. The second link on the bottom bar is “Mirrors”. Click it, then click “This Page In English” on the top right (here’s the address of it: ).

You will see a table with a list of mirrors (sites which “mirror” the contents of the original location). Any one should work, but try to pick a mirror in your country for faster download speeds. You might be presented with a list of files and / or directories. What you are looking for is the Knoppix CD directory (or Knoppix DVD if you want more additional software on the disk). Inside (or in the big list if you got one right away), you are looking for the ISO image of the disk:

KNOPPIX_V3.6-2004-08-16-EN.iso

The “EN” part tells you this is the English version. Check the size of the file, it should be 700 MB or close to it (for the CD version).

Download this ISO file to your computer. You can optionally download the file with the same name but ending in .md5 if you want to verify the integrity of the download — you’ll need a program to compute the MD5 checksum of the ISO you downloaded. You can skip this step.

Next, you’ll need a way to record (burn) the ISO image on a blank CD. NOTE: this is different from just burning the .iso file on the CD, since then you simply “copied” it there. What you need to do is use a program that can “unpack” the ISO and record the resulting file structure on the CD. In Nero you can go to “Open…” and choose “ISO images” in the file filter, and it will know how to do it. You can use any major CD authoring software to burn ISO images, most have an option “Burn ISO”, “Open ISO” or “Burn Image” or some such.

After you are done, check the contents of the CD by opening it in Windows. You should NOT see the file KNOPPIX_V3.6-2004-08-16-EN.iso on the CD, instead you should see the files and folders that make up the Knoppix distro.

Then, simply restart your computer and (you might not have to do this) either use the option to boot from a CD (if your computer has one) or enter the BIOS and choose the boot order to be CD-ROM drive first, Hard Drive second.

Try just restarting first, many computers today will try to boot from available disk media if present without you having to do anything.

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First of all Linux is no harder to use than Windows, in fact in certain respects it’s easier to use than Windows, it’s entirely what you are used to. I’m not a geek and prefer to use Linux to windows.

To get knoppix go to: and save the ISO file to your hard drive. Then using your favourite burning programme, burn the ISO image to disk, make sure that you burn it as an ISO image, this google search should show you how to do that:

Once you have the knoppix CD it’s as simple as making sure your machine will boot from CD before hard drive (you may need to go into the BIOS to do this), then put in the Knoppix CD & reboot your machine, Knoppix will then run from the CD drive. check out the Knoppix web site for all sorts of info.

As for dual booting Linux with Windows XP, first of all for someone new to Linux, Knoppix would not be the best choice, either Ubuntu or Suse, in my view Suse would be better. The Ubuntu site is: and the Suse site is:.
You can download Linux from these sites free of charge as an ISO image and again you would need to burn the disk and boot from your CD/DVD drive. Also on these sites is a huge amount of information on using Linux.

If you choose to use Suse linux to dual boot do the following:

Download and burn the ISO image, then set the bios to boot from the CD/DVD drive, put the disk in the drive & reboot, when the installation screen comes up simply follow the onscreen instructions, with Suse it is safe to accept the default installation, Suse will partition your hard drive & install with no trouble at all. Remember the passwords you assign to your root & user account, if you don’t you won’t be able to access these accounts. After the installation just reboot the machine when prompted and you will be given a choice of which operating system to boot into, just choose Linux and enjoy it.

If you get in trouble when you are using Linux, subscribe to these 2 sites and either search them for info or ask a question on line:?
or you can email me if you like, I use Suse and may not be as much help with Ubunt

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Download knoppix to your PC directly from their website. Then burn the (download)ISO file using nero or any CD or DVD burner into a new CD or DVD. The all purpose of knoppix is to use it as a live CD which means you don’t need to dual boot. Each time you need knoppix(linux) stick the CD in your driver and you are in

Joe.