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Trouble Burning Knoppix .iso

Started by globaljoe , Aug 16 2010 08:46 AM

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globaljoe

Posted 16 August 2010 - 08:46 AM

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Hello, I downloaded an .iso image of Knoppix to my desktop to replace a well corrupted Windows installation on a friends desktop, as a temporary fix, but when trying to burn the image to CD using ImageBurn I get a message saying: Invalid or unsupported image file format, reason: first image file part is less than 2048 bytes in size.
Has anyone any idea what the trouble is!
Thanks.

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MS-Free

Posted 18 August 2010 - 06:55 PM

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From the sound of the error message, it sounds to me like - in order to make the CD bootable the Disc must contain 2 partions, the first of which I assume is for Boot information, which apparently should be >= 2KB in size. As for why your having issues, I'm not sure, did you do a MD5 checksum (or whatever recommended similar algorithm they suggest you use) to check the integrity of you Download?