What's so great about Knoppix?

I'm just wondering, because I keep hearing about it and I've read a little bit about it. From what I understand it's just an OS that runs off of a CD. A version of GNU/Linux, I guess.

So what makes it worthwhile? I mean, can you write data with it? Because it's on a CD...

Anyways, I'm a total newb when it comes to Linux and this Knoppix thing has been bugging me for a while.

WHAT MAKES IT SPECIAL!?

>>11

Thanks for the information. Also, I get what you mean, which is why I'm kind of desperate to get the Live-CD's working on this machine.

>>10

Fair enough. As I mentioned there is quite a bit I don't know about just yet. I have both of the DVD drives set to be the first thing the computer looks for when trying to boot up. To an extenct the discs do boot; the thing is when they do it's next to useless. Regardless of the version of Linux I install it always says that some file can not be found, and that Linux is going to be dropped to a very limited shell (command prompt).

I thought the disc was bad, but even when I burnt a new disc, I got the same error, and the burn speed was set to 2.4x, so I doubt it could be an error during the burning process. As I said; something is wrong, I just don't know what. Any advice to any sort of resolution would be appreciated. I already looked at the system settings of the computer/BIOS, and unfortunatly, I couldn't find anything worth noting that may resolve the issue.