Quote Originally Posted by baldyeti
When ruuning the laptop under windows, can you read the knoppix CD OK? If you have +/- 700 Mb hd diskpace free on a fat partition, you might consider the so-called poor man's install. (check the "Docs" section of this site).
The hard drive for this machine crashed hard a few weeks ago. After getting a data retrieval service to get my data back, I don't have money to get a new drive or a new laptop. So I was hoping to make this an experimental cd only linux box. I don't have a floppy drive for it either. The only way to get it to boot will be with the cd, or perhaps using the network if that is possible somehow.