Hello,

I want to use knoppix on my computer, unfortunately it cannot boot from CD-Rom since the board is ancient and I only have a SCSI DVD-ROM which is connected to a SCSI controller that has no Boot EEPROM.

So I tried out the floppy disk method, unfortunately it does not boot corretly (after inserting the second floppy and loading the root-fs there appear errors "... access beyond end of device ..." and the system hangs). The important thing is that the kernel24 on the bootfloppy is booting the system.

So I said "hey why not boot the whole thing from hd". I don't want a complete knoppix installation, I just want to 'fake' the cdrom version on hard disk, i.e. boot the compressed image from hard disk but work as if it booted from CDROM. I followed instructions from http://www.yak.net/fqa/347.html, but couldn't make it work. I'm using lilo and the linux24 image, and after reading the kernel image the computer hangs. Reading the kernel means before anything happens, it crashes right after the "Loading kernel ...................." text line (maybe spelled differently). No console, penguin or anything

So I'm stuck. Is there a way to install KNOPPIX so that it boots from a compressed image as if it booted from CD-ROM? That would be really nice since my hard disk partition is only about 1.5 Gig -- not enough for a real installation. And remember, I can't boot the CD on my old machine, and the only other computer I own is a laptop -- which has no floppy disk drive, so I can't boot knoppix on the laptop and write boot floppies (I did my floppies by reading the mkbootfloppy script and repeat procedures by hand on my old computer).

H.