Ptarmigan, starting with version 3.4, Knoppix went from the DOS-style boot loaders to another - isolinux, IIRC. I think the justification was to provide more room, but I'm not sure. Anyway, for version 3.4 and beyond, users concerned about any issue involving booting should be very skeptical of any hints or how-tos which were written prior to May 2004, when version 3.4 came out. This is part of the reason why I wrote a new how-to on "poor man's" installation, using 3.4 or later, because the prior entries all focused on using boot.img.

From what I understand, 3.4 does not boot from one floppy, but two. There is a script to generate these floppies in Knoppix, but it was not working correctly in 3.4, and was added to the buglist. Given that I have found a lot of the 3.4 bugs to still be present in 3.6, I doubt that this has changed. I would recommend that you do a date search in the forum for posts after May 5, 2004, with key words of "boot" and "floppy".

BTW, I tried for a while to make a USB stick bootable with 3.4, and got lots of good ideas, but gave it up to concentrate on other things. But while looking into that, I'm pretty sure that I saw some useful information about making the floppies.

hth,

jd