Since I have no experience with Debian, I cannot recommend any particular installation stage. However, as a caution: Not all distributions are created equal. Debian, Slackware, and Gentoo (my personal favourite) are popular distributions, but generally preferred by more experienced Linux users. There are other distributions which are generally preferred by and recommended to complete beginners in the Linux world; I hear good things in this regard about Fedora and Mandrake. I have no experience with Debian, so I cannot really tell whether it is a good or very poor choice for a newbie.

I have talked to some other people and I have decided in knopix

I noe have this giant 700mb file, KNOPPIX_V3.6-2004-08-16-EN.iso, where do I put it?

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I noe have this giant 700mb file, KNOPPIX_V3.6-2004-08-16-EN.iso, where do I put it?

You burn the image to a CD (be sure to select burn image, do not create a data cd project). Then you boot with that CD.

I tried to write i like I normaly do and it did not work, 1st it says that data might be lost, when it tries to copy it says "windows can not copy the file". how do I burn the cd image?

Don't burn the file to the CD, burn the image.

Depending on your software, it'll be in a menu someplace called something like "burn cd from image"

Thanks! If I hadn't read this thread I would've missed out on free linux cds. ++rating

With Windows XP you can download the ISO Recorder PowerToy.

I'm pretty sure you need newer (special) CDs to burn a 700MB image - normal CDs are only 640MB. IIRC, it's called "over-burn".

I copied the image with nero, it couldnt load, it left me in the shell (I am using knoppix)

what do you mean it couldn't load? what did it do?