NTFS stopping me from booting?

[Eradicator]

I copied the entire Knoppix CD to my Win95 and Win98 machines and used a boot disk for it to run from my HD instead of the CD just to speed it up a little. I tried the same thing with my WinXP machine and it says it can't locate the proper files/directory once I get to the screen with the linux penguin.

Is this because the WinXP is set up as NTFS and not FAT32?

[ketthors]

Is this because the WinXP is set up as NTFS and not FAT32?

Yes, AFAIK Linux distros can't write to a NTFS partition, so the files must be on a FAT32 partition.

[Henk Poley]

Yes, AFAIK Linux distros can't write to a NTFS partition, so the files must be on a FAT32 partition.
That's true, but still, why would the bootdisk need write acces to that partition?