cannot boot off iso image

[uber]

ICPUG
Thanks so much for your clear explaination. Thanks to everyone else who responded as well. From reading the documentation that ICPUG suggested I see that I was taking my previous instructions too literally.

Thanks again!
jim

[uber]

I have booted Knoppix 3.7 off my hard drive on a Windows XP SP1 laptop and a Windows NT4 desktop, both of which use NTFS. Therefore it can be done!

My NT4 option is nearest to what you are trying to do. However you do not use the ISO, but the Knoppix file you find in the \KNOPPIX directory when you burn the ISO to a CD.

When you burn the CD you will find a file simply called KNOPPIX in the directory \KNOPPIX of the CD.

Using Windows create a directory c:\KNOPPIX on your hard drive and copy the file from your CD to it.

Now when you boot up from the (burnt) CD you type:
knoppix26 bootfrom=/dev/hda1

add any other cheatcodes you might want AFTER the bootfrom cheatcode. The command above uses the 2.6 kernel. The 2.4 kernel never worked on NT4 with Knoppix 3.4 so I have not tried with later versions!
N.B. The capitalisation of the names is important.

If you really want to use the ISO you have to do what I have done on my laptop. This is a Poor Mans Install (PMI) for NTFS, which was developed by minds greater than myself after a long and tortuous struggle. However, it was well worth it because the result is brilliant!

Have a look here:
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Poor_Mans_Install

This gives you some introductory notes on the process. Follow the link to method 2 Win Partition to see what to do.

You are going to have to download Ruymbeke's files (9MB if I remember rightly) but once things are set up you will love being able to boot you PC into Knoppix without the need of the cd-rom.

Hope that helps.

ICPUG

sorry dosn't work

[rcook]

I am not certain that the boottoHD works if the iso file is stored on an NTFS partition. I shrank my NTFS partition and made a small (10 GB) fat32 partiton to hold my knoppix.iso image file and other things I wanted to read/write to from within KNOPPIX.

[ICPUG]

Uber

Can you clarify what did not work?

Which option of the two were you trying - (a) bootfrom a Knoppix cloop file or (b) Win Partition PMI from an ISO.

Where did it go wrong - any messages?

What cheat codes do you have to use to get it to work from CD Bootup? I need this so I can give precise instructions.

ICPUG

[Robert A.]

Just to be sure that there is no misunderstanding, for the benefit of VERY new users:

If you burn the ISO file as an ordinary "data file," then it is not bootable. As far as your computer is concerned, it is simply some sort of file on the CD.

You need to burn the ISO file as an "ISO image," which actually unpacks it and arranges it on the CD (or something like that), rather like unzipping a zip file. When you explore the CD, you will see a file structure, not just one huge file.

Some CD burners don't include the option to burn an iso image, or maybe that option wasn't selected when burning. My own computer came with 2 burners, niether of which has the option.

If in doubt, search the Internet for Alex Feinman's "ISO Recorder," which provides a right-click context menu specifically for burning an iso image.

That doesn't sound like the issue raised in the above forum discussion, but I image some new users will find their way here, with the problem I just described.

[uber]

Thanks you've all been very helpful!

[djbjrca]

i think it would have been easier if you didn't change the name of the iso image. Not sure, but that might have been the problem. When you burn it to disk, the name of the origional iso image doesn't matter anymore.